As part of Microsofts strategy, Exchange 2007 includes extended support for the Powersheel scripting platform. A set of sample scripts has been released by Mihai Jalobeanu and Vivek Sharma.
Powershell is Microsofts new scripting platform. The aim of it is to provide an object oriented and simple scripting language that is function rich and simple to use. For someone like me who was brought up on COBOL, C and C++, it does take a while to get my head around some of it. But … it does appear to offer the ability to do in one sentence what could take a page in VBS.
I did the one day partner training on MS Exchange. The emphasis was definitely on scripting. It even appeared that some functionality was only available in scripts. One cool script, that is in this free script pack, was used in the class to automatically balance the number of mailboxes between 2 mail stores.
Microsoft will be continuing this trend with Powershell. Expect to see extended support for it included in all future major releases. You’ll then have one common scripting platform across all Microsoft products, making life easier for overstressed admins.