Category: Exchange Management Roles
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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…