Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Chapter 4: Working with User and Group Objects

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Working with Templates

Now suppose that these mailboxes were to be created with specific settings; for example, users in the

Engineering department were to have a larger email SendQuota than those in the Finance department.

Creating mailboxes to these specifications could become overwhelming. Here is where the use of

templates comes in handy. The Exchange Management Shell lets you use templates by supporting the

TemplateInstance parameter on most cmdlets. The administrator can create a template for each

department, then create the users based on this template. To accomplish this, first you create a template

user for the Engineering department using the

New-Mailbox cmdlet, and next you use the

Set-Mailbox cmdlet to customize the user settings as desired. Your next step is to assign a variable to

the template user created. These steps are shown in Figure 4 - 35 .

Figure 4-35

Now that you ’ ve created your template, you return back to your CSV file. This time it ’ s another set of

new hires into various departments provided in the

NewHire1.csv file shown in Figure 4 - 36 . You need

to filter the CSV file to show just the users from the Engineering department. You can do that using

either the

Filter parameter or the Where-object cmdlets; here we used the latter:

[PS] C:\ > Import-Csv newhire1.csv | where {$_.department ...