Exchange Demos with PowerShell

I'd previously blogged about Vivek posting the details and a link to the "Scriptacular Demo Pack". This download can be very useful in preparing/provisioning an environment to use for demos, and then knocking the socks off your audience with the coolness of the demo scripts. I highly recommend it.

Why bring it up again? Well, this week I presented a 75 minute presentation and demo session to a couple hundred Microsoft consultants and technical sales attendees. The main focus of the talk was Automation using the Exchange objects and cmdlets in PowerShell. I used a variation of the scriptacular demo pack to provision the environment, and some of the cool scripts in the pack to "wow" the audience.

I also captured a transcript of the demos (Start-Transcript), and I'll post it in several parts here over the next couple days so you can get a sense of the sort of cool stuff you can do with Exchange and PowerShell. Hopefully these will give you some great ideas of new things YOU can demo. (and hopefully you'll send me an email or post in the comments with what you come up with!)