Category: Exchange Cmdlets
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Creating New Equipment Address List in Exchange 2010.
The steps and cmdlets below enabled me configured a separate address list in Exchange 2010 to manage all Equipment. Create the Address List and specify the Recipient Filter: [PS] C:\>New-AddressList -name “All Equipment” -RecipientFilter {RecipientType -eq “UserMailbox” -and RecipientTypeDetails -eq “EquipmentMailbox”} Run the Update-AddressList on the New Address List: [PS] C:\>Update-AddressList -Identity “All Equipment” To…
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Creating Resource Mailbox Resource Property Schema in Exchange Server 2010.
We’ve added a few conference rooms and Equipment mailboxes and I decided to add custom resource properties to distinguish the rooms and equipment . The properties indicate what features are specific to a resource like the conference room conference call phone and equipment model. By default, these properties are not configured for resource mailboxes.The Get-ResourceConfig…
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Converting a User Mailbox to Resource Room Mailbox using PowerShell.
In past versions of Exchange Server, specifically Exchange 2003, managing Resource Room mailboxes was not exactly a straight forward process. In my organization at the time, to manage room Calendars and bookings for Conference rooms (they were not referred to as Resource Rooms at the time), we had to create mailboxes to represent the conference…
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Renaming AD User Object Surname Property.
The following script renames the Surname property of an Active Directory User Object. The script requires PowerShell 3.0. The only edit required is the organizational Exchange Server name specified in the New-PSSession cmdlet. The script accepts the Given Name, Surname and new Surname parameters’ input from the console,executes the rename of the Active Directory object…
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PowerShell 3.0 Script creates AD user and Exchange Mailbox.
This interactive script requires PowerShell 3.0 . It creates an Active Directory user and their corresponding mailbox using a remote session at the same time. It should work out of the box, but specific variables will have to be edited to reflect the Active Directory configuration of the organization in question. function New-Employee { Param…
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My Frustrating Experience with the Exchange Trusted Subsystem USG.
I was doing some quick research recently with a topic totally unrelated to Exchange. Due to some resource constraints, I decided to install and setup an instance of Spiceworks (Helpdesk and Asset Management tool) on my Lab Exchange 2010 SP2 Server. Then began my problem. As soon as I was done, it didn’t take long…
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How to Customize Exchange 2010 RBAC Roles for Delegating User/Contact Management Part 2.
As a follow up to the last post, I decided to further restrict the Support Staff users’ access to the available Custom ‘Address Book Management’ Role cmdlets. The following commands enabled me accomplish this objective: 1) C:\>Get-ManagementRoleEntry -Identity “Address Book Management\*” | ?{$_.Name -ne “Get-User”} | Remove-ManagementRoleEntry ( This command removes all available cmdlets from…
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How to Customize Exchange 2010 RBAC Roles for Delegating User/Contact Management Part 1.
I recently received a request for specific users to be able to modify users and contact information for the HR department. I immediately thought of Exchange Role Based Access Control. Personally, I think this is one of the best features of Microsoft Exchange 2010, but that’s another story. In short, RBAC ensures that end-users only…
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How to remove/delete email sent to wrong user(s) using Search-mailbox cmdlet
I recently came by a situation where confidential email was mistakenly sent to the wrong users. I was asked to find a way to delete the email. I knew I could use the Search-mailbox cmdlet since this is an Exchange 2010 deployment, but totally forgot I had to configure a Role assignment before this could…
Chinny Chukwudozie, Cloud Solutions. 