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  • Friday, May 11, 2012 12:36 PM
     
     
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    Hi !

    I watched a video tutorial about exchange management shell and wonderful scripts and i have a small simple question

    This is a powershell command to create mailbox for all users in test OU

    get-user -organizationalname test | where-object{$_.recipienttype -eq "user" -eq "User"| enable-mailbox -database Myexdatabase


    but i can not understand this one !!
    where-object{$_.recipienttype -eq "user"}

    we said get users from that OU and enable mailbox for them, so what is this command !?

    look at these :

    get-mailbox -organizationalunit test | set-mailbox prohibitsendquota 50MB

    it just gets some users and set a quota for them ... there is no where-object here

    and many other examples which are just a get and a set


    • Edited by MohammadG Friday, May 11, 2012 2:38 PM
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  • Friday, May 11, 2012 7:21 PM
     
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    Hi

    You don't need the where-object portion if all the objects in that OU are the users you want to enable.  So if you have an OU called Test which only contains the user objects you want to create mailboxes for then you could run this command:

    Get-User -OrganizationalUnit test | Enable-Mailbox

    Note that you don't have to specify the database as one will be selected automatically.

    Steve

     
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 4:23 AM
     
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    Thanks Steve

    As i am watching this video from Mr. Bruzzese (TrainSignal),

    http://exclusivelyexchange.com/who-is-j-peter-bruzzese/

    The Goal of this script is to create mailbox for all users in test OU, So if this 

    Get-User -OrganizationalUnit test | Enable-Mailbox

    is enough, So can u tell me what is probably that where-object part ?

    for example it is necessary if there are some groups in that OU ? Or ...

     
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 5:06 AM
     
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    Hi,

    Let's say that some of the users in the OU already has a mailbox, you would want to filter them out and using where-object {$_.recipienttype -eq "user"} would.

    In other words, only the users without a mailbox in the OU TEST, would get a mailbox if the database Myexdatabase if you ran:

    get-user -organizationalunit domain.local/test | where-object {$_.recipienttype -eq "user"}| enable-mailbox -database Myexdatabase

    Martina Miskovic



     
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 5:17 AM
     
     
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    Thanks Martina

    Would you please explain a bit more

    As i got you mean this where-object {$_.recipienttype -eq "user"} causes to exclude the users who already have mailbox

    My questions is what is the syntax exactly. I can not figure out how this exclusion is related to and set using $_.recipienttype = User

    is there a property named .recipienttype  and it is equal to User for users who have mailboxes ?

    and second one :

    what happens if some users have mailbox there and we do not use where-object {$_.recipienttype -eq "user"}

    Maybe we just get a warning that user has already a mailbox and script continues to other ones. Am i right ?

     
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 5:20 AM
     
     
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    Did you notice the difference between

    The command you posted: get-user -organizationalname test | where-object{$_.recipienttype -eq "user" -eq "User"| enable-mailbox -database Myexdatabase

    ...and mine:
    get-user -organizationalunit domain.local/test | where-object {$_.recipienttype -eq "user"}| enable-mailbox -database Myexdatabase

    The one I posted has the correct syntax.

    Edit: Yes you will get an error for the users that already has a mailbox.

    Martina Miskovic


     
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 5:37 AM
     
     
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    sorry ! my bad ! I have an error in my command

    get-user -organizationalname test | where-object{$_.recipienttype -eq "user" -eq "User"| enable-mailbox -database Myexdatabas

    the eq "user" has been repeated

    and also oranizationalunit is ok

    and i think that domain.local/test is not necessary because the ou is just under domain tree (i tested that)

    So the correct form is :

    get-user -organizationalunit test | where-object {$_.recipienttype -eq "user"}| enable-mailbox -database Myexdatabase

    so excuse me for my errors ( i was thinking deep about that get-obkect)

    but beside these

    i have not answer to my question yet

    I can not figure out how this exclusion is related to and set using $_.recipienttype = User

    is there a property named .recipienttype  and it is equal to User for users who have mailboxes ?

    thanks for your valuable time

     
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 5:44 AM
     
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    Yes, all users has a recipienttype and one without a mailbox is of type "User" and a user that has a mailbox has the recipienttype "UserMailbox"

    So if you run Get-User and see the recipienttype User, you can be sure that this user is not a recipient in Exchange.

    Understanding Recipients
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201680.aspx

     

    Martina Miskovic

    • Marked As Answer by MohammadG Saturday, May 12, 2012 7:18 AM
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  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 7:24 AM
     
     
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    Thank you very much

    This sentence was exactly what i was looking for

    Yes, all users has a recipienttype and one without a mailbox is of type "User" and a user that has a mailbox has the recipienttype "UserMailbox"

    A property which is "User" for those who have not mailbox and "UserMailbox" for those who have

    Thank you very much