HOWTO: Give Service Account Access to all mailboxes on an Exchange 2007 Server
This is my first attempt to write a Powershell sample to my readers. In this sample we will give Send-As, Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin rights to an active directory user. We will be piping two commands here… Get-MailboxServer and the result will go to Add-AdPermission.
You may give same permissions using Exchange Power Shell Window
| C:\>Get-MailboxServer –Identity MSGEX07 | Add-AdPermission –User UserA –AccessRights GenericRead, GenericWrite –ExtendedRights Send-As, Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin |
Here is the sample…
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Management.Automation.Runspaces;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
namespace PowershellSample
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
RunspaceConfiguration config = RunspaceConfiguration.Create();
PSSnapInException warning;
// Load Exchange PowerShell snap-in.
config.AddPSSnapIn("Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin", out warning);
if (warning != null) throw warning;
using (Runspace thisRunspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(config))
{
try
{
thisRunspace.Open();
using (Pipeline thisPipeline = thisRunspace.CreatePipeline())
{
//Please change parameter values.
Command cmdGetMailbox = new Command("Get-MailboxServer");
Command cmdAddAdPermission = new Command("Add-AdPermission");
cmdGetMailbox.Parameters.Add("Identity", @"MSGEX07");
cmdAddAdPermission.Parameters.Add("User", "UserA");
cmdAddAdPermission.Parameters.Add("AccessRights", new string[] { "GenericRead", "GenericWrite" });
cmdAddAdPermission.Parameters.Add("ExtendedRights", new string[] { "Send-As", "Receive-As", "ms-Exch-Store-Admin" });
thisPipeline.Commands.Add(cmdGetMailbox);
thisPipeline.Commands.Add(cmdAddAdPermission);
try
{
thisPipeline.Invoke();
}
catch (Exception exx)
{
Console.Write("Error: " + exx.ToString());
}
// Check for errors in the pipeline and throw an exception if necessary.
if (thisPipeline.Error != null && thisPipeline.Error.Count > 0)
{
StringBuilder pipelineError = new StringBuilder();
pipelineError.AppendFormat("Error calling cmdLets...");
foreach (object item in thisPipeline.Error.ReadToEnd())
{
pipelineError.AppendFormat("{0}\n", item.ToString());
}
throw new Exception(pipelineError.ToString());
}
}
}
finally
{
thisRunspace.Close();
}
}
}
}
}
