Exchange Powershell - How to invoke Exchange 2010 module from inside script

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I m writing a script that does a number of things with AD and Exchange and just got to the part of the GUI where I need to start working with Exchange but don t see where I can manually specify to include the Exchange module   The normal process I m familiar with is import-module activedirectory but import-module exchange doesn t work   I performed a Get-Module -ListAvailable   Select Name  and don t see anything indicating Exchange   However  the Exchange Management Shell IS loaded on the Exchange server I m working on     Does anyone know how to include the Exchange 2010 module in my script so I can use the exchange-specific cmdlets internally   TIA

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You can do this   add-pssnapin Microsoft Exchange Management PowerShell E2010   and most of it will work  although MS support will tell you that doing this is not supported because it bypasses RBAC    I ve seen issues with some cmdlets  specifically enable disable UMmailbox  not working with just the snapin loaded   In Exchange 2010  they basically don t support using Powershell outside of the the implicit remoting environment of an actual EMS shell

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I know this is an old question  but rather than adding the snapin which is apparently unsupported  I just looked at the EMS shortcut properties and copied those commands   The full shortcut target is   C  Windows System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 powershell exe -noexit -command     C  Program Files Microsoft Exchange Server V14 bin RemoteExchange ps1   Connect-ExchangeServer -auto    So I put the following at the start of my script and it seemed to function as expected      C  Program Files Microsoft Exchange Server V14 bin RemoteExchange ps1  Connect-ExchangeServer -auto   Notes    Has to be run in 64bit PS This was tested on a server with just the Management Tools installed  It automatically connected to our existing Exchange infrastructure  No extensive testing has been done  so I do not know if this method is viable  I will edit this post if I run into any issues

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import-module Microsoft Exchange Management PowerShell E2010aTry with some implementation like    exchangeser    MTLServer01   session   New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft Exchange -ConnectionURI http     exchangeserver  powershell  -Authentication kerberos import-PSSession  session    or   add-pssnapin Microsoft Exchange Management PowerShell E2010

[powershell] Exchange Powershell - How to invoke Exchange 2010 module from inside script?

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