How to set the msExchQueryBaseDN attribute for users via powershell
I was working in the lab today trying to debug a reproduction of an OWA hosting issue and I had the need to set the msExchQueryBaseDN for 10,000 users. Typically you can use Poweshell with the get-user | set-user commands to access mailbox properties for stamping purposes, however the msExchQueryBaseDN attribute is a user based attribute. Here are two ways you can do it:
How to set an attribute for one user via powershell
$user = ([ADSI]"LDAP://OU=MyOU,DC=Company,DC=com").psbase;
$user.Properties["msExchQueryBaseDN"].Value = "CN=User,OU=MyOU,DC=Company,DC=com";
$user.CommitChanges();
How to set an attributes for a group of users in an OU via Powershell
get-mailbox userName* -resultsize unlimited | Foreach { $dn = "LDAP://" + $_.distinguishedname;$obj = [ADSI]$dn;$obj.msExchQueryBaseDN = "OU=YourOU,DC=company,DC=com";$obj.setinfo()}
This little bad boy stamped 10,000 users in less than 2 minutes.
Dave
