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Part I: PowerShell for Exchange Fundamentals

cannot be used in conjunction with either the Verb or Noun parameters. In Figure 1 - 14 , Get-Command

is used with the

Verb and Noun parameters to return a list of matching cmdlets.

The

CommandType parameter allows you to specify the type of command for which to return matches.

Possible values are

Alias , Function , Cmdlet , ExternalScript , Application , and All . Using

Get-Command in this way allows you to find these additional command elements that are not exposed

when searching for cmdlets using

Get-Help . For example, the command in Figure 1 - 15 uses the

CommandType parameter to find external scripts that contain the word database somewhere in

their name.

Figure 1-14

Figure 1-15

ExternalScript command elements are Windows PowerShell scripts located in the %ProgramFiles%\

Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts

directory. In this example two scripts included with Exchange

Server 2007 match the search criteria for names that include

database .

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