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If all UM - enabled users in sales needed to have their UM settings disabled, the following will disable all
users in sales and retain their properties for activation at a later date:
Get-UMMailbox | where {$_.identity -match “Sales”} | Disable-UMMailbox -
KeepProperties $true -Confirm:$false
When introducing UM into an existing environment, there will already be an established user base.
These users will not be able to automatically start using UM. Their accounts must first be configured and
enabled for UM. In order to do that, the
Enable-UMMailbox is used. This cmdlet has only two required
parameters: the identity of the user that will be activated and the
UMMailboxPolicy . However, for the
sake of this writing, it is best practice to include the
Extensions parameter. For the identity of the user,
it will accept the ADObjectID, GUID, DN, domain\account, UPN, LegacyExchangeDN, SMTP address,
or the alias.
The
Extensions, PIN, PINExpired , and UMMailboxPolicy have been set to allow users to
immediately access their UM mailboxes:
Enable-UMMailbox -Identity john.doe@exchangeexchange.com -Extensions 4242 -PIN
458236-PINExpired $false -UMMailboxPolicy UMpolicy1
AutoAttendants
Unified Messaging allows for the creation of AutoAttendants (AA). The creation of an AA can allow for
internal or external users to dial a single number and be ...