The Exchange Management Shell is a powerful command-line management interface, built on Windows PowerShell v2, which enables you to administer every part of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. You can be an administrator who needs to perform day-to-day management of your mailboxes, or you can be a developer who needs to automate administration using a custom line of business application. Either way, the Shell enables you to do more, faster.

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