It has saved my butt many times. There’s also great PowerShell courses on Pluralsight covering fundamentals, scripting, toolmaking, advanced functions, there’s even one on Exchange admin using PowerShell by yours truly.The resources are all there, and to put it as friendly but bluntly as I can, it’s 2017 and you’ve identified that your PowerShell experience is lacking. 2 comments Comments. Deprecated in v6.0 - Use Send API instead. If it is your first time writing a PowerShell script then it will also be a good learning exercise.I want to have access to someone’s emails and would only like to have READ only permission, I do not want to accidentally delete any mails. Northwestern's research data holdings extend to petabytes of unstructured data. This cmdlet is available in on-premises Exchange and in the cloud-based service. Would you be able to help me do that? This cmdlet updates the mailbox object that's specified by the Identity parameter.You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. The default mailbox owner is NT AUTHORITY\SELF.The owner that you specify for this parameter must be a user or security group (a security principal that can have permissions assigned). Some parameters and settings may be exclusive to one environment or the other. I would just do my best to provide the information and education to help users during the transition process, and live with the disruption until the project is complete.I have need to take away a user’s ability to create/edit/remove events on their own calendar. Unfortunately, we have a fairly liberal BYOD ‘policy’ so that complicates things exponentially. string. Let me see if I can find out some more and come back with an update in a day or two.Do you have any update regarding working these permissions on OWA ? We have only option to “Inbox,sentitems, calendar…..etc” . Once it was a mail-enabled security group, you could refer to it by it’s SMTP address.For my purposes, I was trying to grant the group reviewer access so that they could only read messages in a certain box.The end users in the group can now read the messages. The text of the message. This is available as a separate screen in the login dialog when you ask for permissions. You can use this switch to view the changes that would occur without actually applying those changes. It didn’t matter what permission I applied at the prompt.Regardless, thanks for your help! But wanted to delegate only read only rights.Could you please clarify what type of AD groups should be used to grant permissions to shared mailboxes (Security vs. Distribution, Global, vs. Universal)?There seems to be some issues with Security groups, particularly for mailboxes that were first created in previous versions of Exchange. This cmdlet is available in on-premises Exchange and in the cloud-based service. Read how Komprise solved the university’s growing challenges of storage capacity and … I did try to give the top information as reviewer and give a “owner” on one of the folder (created as subfolder).When i tried to open that folder by adding the mailbox as addtional, i could’t expend the folderLove your work!! Zuck pauses plan to roll out topic moderation tools for its FB-for-biz Really helping me out in my new role, with simplifying things and automating tasks.With this script, it is overwriting the previous permissions;I have a reviewer group already with review access on all folders, when I run the script for a new group to be added, it just overwrites the previous.Is there are way to add a new group without overwriting the existing?That’s not the behavior I get. Facebook has admitted that some apps had access to users’ private messages, thanks to a policy that allowed devs to request mailbox permissions.The revelation came as current Facebook users found out whether they or their friends had used the “This Is Your Digital Life” app that allowed academic Aleksandr Kogan to collect data on users and their friends.Users whose friends had been suckered in by the quiz were told that as a result, their public profile, Page likes, birthday and current city were “likely shared” with the app.So far, so expected.
string. A set of tags indicating the message folder and source of the message. After this, the user’s mail box is added under my outlook. We have 20+ people who need read only and are computer challenged Thanks heaps for the article, very informative and straight to the point!There is one aspect that still a bit unclear to me – do I need to grant the users Reviewer acces rights on the Top of the IS before running the script or granting them Reviewer access on certain folders?I did it anyway, but it would be good to know for future reference!Yes, I believe that permission at Top of IS is required for them to be able to open/expand the mailbox in their left-side Outlook pane.Can you point me in the right direction on how to give a user ‘Delegate’ access say with ‘Author’ rights to ALL folders and subfolders?Im trying to reverse the code but i’m receiving error.A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘-AccessRights’.The script for adding permissions to all folders … except that had changed the Add-MailboxFolderPermission to Remove-MailboxFolderPermissionThere’s no -AccessRights parameter for Remove-MailboxFolderPermission, so you’ll need to take that off your commands.Paul – first and foremost – thank you for providing MANY useful scripts and advice over the years… I have the need to remove the read-only permissions that were set by your example script above. I had to modify it slightly:$folder = $mailboxfolder.FolderPath.Replace(“/”,””)PowerShell was replacing [char]63743 with a ? (Why does Exchange allow users to create folders that contain illegal characters… Another topic, I am sure.) You need to either move the sub folder onto the same level as the Inbox or you allow the user to see your inbox plus this folder.“FolderVisible” would be the minimum required to let someone traverse a folder hierarchy without seeing the items within.Thanks Paul, didn’t even know “FolderVisible” was an option! The set of folders cannot be opened”. I am also happy to se they are kept current as I only recently moved up to Exchange 2013 from 2007. For these cmdlets, specifying the Confirm switch without a value introduces a pause that forces you acknowledge the command before proceeding.The Deny switch specifies whether to deny the specified permissions to the user on the mailbox. How is that done?they lose access to the folder as soon as they do anything else in outlookWhen you grant access using folder permissions there’s no auto-mapping of the mailbox.