Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Chapter 15: User, Group, and Public Folder Administration

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The following lists the contents of script file newuser-publicfolder.ps1 :

# newuser-publicfolder.ps1

#

# Synopsis: This script creates a Public Folder based on a mailbox enabled user

# account used as an input value to the script. This script has to

# be run by an administrator who is a member of the Exchange Recipient

# Administrators group.

#

# This script checks to see if the user is mailbox enabled and if a

# Public Folder already exists for the user. If not, a folder is

# created named for the user in the default Public Folder database

# specified by the user ’ s mailbox database. The folder client

# permissions are set to allow the user full control over the folder

# contents, and the user running the script is set as the folder owner.

#

# Usage: newuser-publicfolder.ps1 < mailbox enabled user >

#

# Example: newuser-publicfolder.ps1 [e-mail]

param([string]$user)

# Turn off error reporting to the display

$ErrorActionPreference = “SilentlyContinue”

#This function validates the user specified

function validateUser

{

$notValidUser = $false

if ($user -eq “”)

{

$notValidUser = $true

Write-Host -fore yellow “`nYou must enter a mailbox enabled user account as

input to this script.`n”

return $notValidUser

}

if (!($usermb))

{

$notValidUser = $true

Write-Host -fore yellow “`nThe account specified is not mailbox ...