Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Part IV: Automating Administration

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The only if statement in this function uses the Get-PublicFolder cmdlet to see if a folder with a name

that matches the name of the user already exists. The script assumes that all user - related public folders

are to be created under a top level folder named

corporate . Therefore the value used to identify the

public folder for which the test is checking is constructed using the text

\corporate and the value

stored in the Name property of the user mailbox object stored in

$userMB .

The same segment of code that works out the default public folder store for the user later in the script is

also used to determine the name of the server holding the public folder store, which is stored in the

variable

$server .

If the

Get-PublicFolder command returns a public folder object, then the condition evaluates true and

the statement executes.

$hasFolder is set to $true and an error message is displayed to inform the

administrator that a public folder for this user already exists. The value of

$hasFolder is returned to the

command that called

validateFolder and all processing for the function is complete.

if (get-publicfolder -identity:”\corporate\$($userMB.name)” -server:$server)

{

$hasFolder = $true

Write-Host -fore yellow “`nA Public Folder for this user already exists.`n”

return $hasFolder

}

The last command in the function only executes ...