To make a long story short: I gave Adam our demo VPC of E12, which includes Monad, but then gave him the wrong password to unlock the machine… Dang it! Check the orginal article at proudlyserving.com. Only one more thing to add. So what exactly did we demo? Here it is. We used Use monad cmdlets, written by Exchange team to:
- Install and uninstall a demo managed Transport Agent
- Get the list of all running agents, their status and their priority
- Create a set of users in the AD
- Create storage groups and mailbox databases
- Mail enable the set of new users and load balance them across the newly created SGs
The first two items are handled by Install-TransportAgent, Uninstall-TransportAgent and Get-TransportAgent. I wrote a MSH script to handle the last three. The amazing thing was that it was really easy… basically the script consists of calls to new-mailbox, new-storagegroup and new-mailboxdatabase. The thing that impresses people is that the script is driven off a csv file : import-csv input.csv | provision-server.msh Simply pipe a csv file into the script and it magically creates the users and load balances your SGs. In the old days you have do lots of COM, WMI, ADSI to ge the same effect (if you could do it at all)… but I can gaurantee that the E12 method is much much easier (not to mention way cooler)! Keep reading this blog as I will be slowly (timing is everything) posting more Exchange script content.