Powershell – How to get Exchange 2007 PowerShell commands for property changes

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When you perform certain operations in the Exchange Management Console GUI a window appears showing the PowerShell command that was executed to perform the operation. This is useful for learning how to create a PowerShell script to do the same thing.

Is there a way to get the PowerShell commands that execute for minor operations in Exchange like when just changing various attirbutes in a property dialog?

From some of the answers I can tell my question is not clear. I am referring to the Exchange Management Console which has a GUI not the PowerShell based Exchange Management Shell. In the Console, when you perform operations that use a wizard like adding new users, the final dialog show a text box with the PowerShell command that was executed in the background. I am wondering if it is possible to get those commands when performing minor operation in the GUI.

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The Exchange Management Shell will log all of the PowerShell commands it executes if you set a registry key that enables logging. The commands will be logged to the Event Viewer in the PowerShell folder.

The key can be set by navigating to:

HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin

using Regedit and creating a string value named LogpipelineExecutionDetails with a value of "1".

This registry value can also be created using the following PowerShell command:

Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\PowerShellSnapIns\Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin -Name LogpipelineExecutionDetails -value 1

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Contents of Get-MailboxStatistics.ps1:

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$SMTPMessage.Attachments.Add($Attachment)

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$SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient $SendingServer
$SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage)

This is run by a scheduled batch file containing this line:

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