activate exchange PowerShell commands

Question

I have to use commands like:

Get-TransportServer
Get-OrganizationConfig
Get-MessageTrackingLog

But it seems I have to do something on my Exchange server before I can use them? I get an ObjectNotFound error message.

Thanks for your help.

Here are the code and the error:

PS C:\Windows\System32> Get-OrganizationConfig | Select ReadTrackingEnabled

Get-OrganizationConfig : The term 'Get-OrganizationConfig' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,
or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-OrganizationConfig | Select ReadTrackingEnabled
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-OrganizationConfig:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Solution

You are most certainly running these commands outside the Exchange Management Shell. It's a PowerShell console using a specific console file and loading additional cmdlets, i.e. the ones you need here.

See this : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc505910.aspx

Related question about loading the cmdlets in a classic PowerShell console : Exchange Powershell - How to invoke Exchange 2010 module from inside script?