There’s some basic tasks which are good to automate, to save you some time, you can configure them to run as a scheduled task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First step is to create a user account to run the scripts, this account should have access to change Exchange and change Active Directory, lets call the account: exchangeserviceuser<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To run a PowerShell script from a scheduled task you should create a scheduled task with the following settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The PowerShell scripts are shown below for each task:<\/p>\n\n\n\n AddressBookPolicy.ps1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n MailboxPerm.ps1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n MailboxRetention.ps1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n OWAMailboxPolicy.ps1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n StaffAutomaticCreateMailbox.ps1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s some basic tasks which are good to automate, to save you some time, you can configure them to run as a scheduled task. First step is to create a user account to run the scripts, this account should have access to change Exchange and change Active Directory, lets call the account: exchangeserviceuser. To run … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}General<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Name:<\/td> < different on each script ><\/td><\/tr> Location:<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> Use the following user account:<\/td> DOMAIN\\exchangeserviceuser Run whether user is logged on or not. (Ticked)Run within highest privileges. (Ticked) <\/td><\/tr> Configure for:<\/td> Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2<\/td><\/tr> Actions<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Action:<\/td> Start a program<\/td><\/tr> Program Script:<\/td> c:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe<\/td><\/tr> Add Arguments (optional):<\/td> -command “. ‘c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server\\v15\\Bin\\RemoteExchange.ps1’; Connect-ExchangeServer -auto; c:\\scripts <different on each script> .ps1”<\/td><\/tr> Start in (optional):<\/td> < blank ><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ### AddressBookPolicy.ps1\n\n### This script sets the address book policy for all users.\n\n# Uncomment this line for testing within the Windows PowerShell ISE.\n\n#add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010\n\n$allmailbox = get-mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -OrganizationalUnit \"OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk\"\n\nWrite-Host \"Applying Address Book Policies to\"$allmailbox.count\"Staff accounts......\"\n\n$i = 0\n\nForeach ($item in $allmailbox) {\n\n $i = $i + 1\n\n Set-Mailbox -Identity ($item.alias) -AddressBookPolicy \"Address Book Policy\"\n\n}\n\nWrite-Host \"Processing Complete!\"\n\nWrite-Host \"\"\n\nWrite-Host $i \"Accounts Processed\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n### MailboxPerm.ps1\n\n### This script sets the calendar sharing permissions for all users.\n\n# Uncomment this line for testing within the Windows PowerShell ISE.\n\n#add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010\n\n$allmailbox=get-mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -OrganizationalUnit \"OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk\"\n\nForeach ($item in $allmailbox) {\n\n Set-mailboxfolderpermission \u2013identity ($item.alias+\u2019:\\calendar\u2019) \u2013user Default \u2013Accessrights Reviewer\n\n \n\n}\n\nSet-mailboxfolderpermission -identity (\"mtgfm1:\\calendar\") -user Default -Accessrights AvailabilityOnly\n\nSet-mailboxfolderpermission -identity (\"mtgfm2:\\calendar\") -user Default -Accessrights AvailabilityOnly\n\nSet-mailboxfolderpermission -identity (\"mtgfm3:\\calendar\") -user Default -Accessrights AvailabilityOnly\n\nSet-mailboxfolderpermission -identity (\"mtgfm4:\\calendar\") -user Default -Accessrights AvailabilityOnly<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n### MailboxRetention.ps1\n\n### This script sets the Archive and retention policy for all mailboxes.\n\n# Uncomment this line for testing within the Windows PowerShell ISE.\n\n#add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010\n\nGet-Mailbox -Resultsize Unlimited | Set-Mailbox -RetentionPolicy \"Archive and Retention Policy\"\n\nGet-Mailbox -Resultsize Unlimited | Set-Mailbox -ArchiveQuota 25GB -ArchiveWarningQuota 20GB<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nGet-OWAMailboxPolicy | Set-OWAMailboxPolicy \u2013AllowOfflineOn NoComputers\n\nGet-OWAMailboxPolicy | Set-OWAMailboxPolicy -setphotoenabled:$false\n\nGet-CASMailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Set-CASMailbox -OWAMailboxPolicy Default<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n### StaffAutomaticCreateMailbox.ps1\n\n### This script enables the mailbox on all users yet to have a mailbox enabled.\n\n# Uncomment this line for testing within the Windows PowerShell ISE.\n\n#add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010\n\n# Get a list of all the users within the OU within Active Directory.\n\n$allusers = Get-AdUser -Filter * -SearchBase \"OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk\" | select samaccountname\n\nWrite-Host \"\"\n\nWrite-Host \"Starting to process\" $allusers.count \"user accounts:\"\n\nWrite-Host \"\"\n\n$i = 0\n\nForeach ($item in $allusers) {\n\n if (!(Get-Mailbox $item.samAccountName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {\n\n Write-Host $item.samAccountName \"- No Mailbox Exists, Creating.....\"\n\n \n\n Enable-Mailbox -Identity $item.samAccountName\n\n $i = $i + 1\n\n } else {\n\n Write-Host $item.samAccountName \"- Mailbox Exists\"\n\n } \n\n}\n\nWrite-Host \"\"\n\nWrite-Host \"Account processing complete!\"\n\nWrite-Host $allusers.count \"user accounts processed,\" $i \"mailboxes created.\"<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"