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The Monad-based Exchange Management Shell
The new Exchange Management Shell in Exchange 12 makes it possible for you as an Exchange administrator to manage all types of Exchange tasks such as mail-enabling users, move mailbox stores between storage groups, configure the forms-based authentication page used by OWA, configure SMTP connectors through the Management Shell instead of through the sometimes rather awkward Exchange System Manager (which in Exchange 12 is called the Exchange Management Console). Actually all tasks (plus additional tasks) that can be performed via the GUI can be performed via the Management Shell as well.In addition to the above mentioned tasks the Exchange Management Shell also provides a very robust as well as flexible scripting platform, which means you no longer need to play with long complicated Visual Basic scripts etc. in order to get a script that performs a specific task. The Exchange Management Shell will do this for you, typically only with a few lines of code. Some of you may think the Exchange commands must be very difficult and complex, but actually this is not the case. If you have ever played with PERL, either in a UNIX or Windows environment, or a similar scripting language.(continue at source)