Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Part I: PowerShell for Exchange Fundamentals

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First you specify the account to be used to access the linked domain controller in the external forest and

you are prompted for its credentials. After supplying the credentials, the linked mailbox is successfully

created Using the

Get-Recipient cmdlet you verify that the mailbox created is indeed a linked

mailbox. (See Figure 4 - 26 .)

Figure 4-25

Figure 4-26

As an option, rather than being prompted for the password, you can use the

Get-Credential cmdlet to

specify the account to be used to access the external forest. This cmdlet creates a credential object for a

specified username and password. When a username and password are specified, the cmdlet creates a

PSCredential object representing the credentials passed. You can assign it to a variable object and use

the variable as an input to cmdlets requesting user authentication.

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Chapter 4: Working with User and Group Objects

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You can easily convert a linked mailbox to a regular user mailbox. First, however, you must disable the

linked mailbox and then reconnect the

Mailbox object to a user object in the same Active Directory

forest as the Exchange server:

Disable-Mailbox -Identity Mslinked

Connect-Mailbox -Identity ...