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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By : Biswanath Banerjee
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Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials

By: Biswanath Banerjee

Overview of this book

PowerShell has become one of the most important skills in an Exchange administrator's armory. PowerShell has proved its mettle so widely that, if you're not already starting to learn PowerShell, then you're falling behind the industry. It isn't difficult to learn PowerShell at all. In fact, if you've ever run commands from a CMD prompt, then you'll be able to start using PowerShell straightaway. This book will walk you through the essentials of PowerShell in Microsoft Exchange Server and make sure you understand its nitty gritty effectively. You will first walk through the core concepts of PowerShell and their applications. This book discusses ways to automate tasks and activities that are performed by Exchange administrators and that otherwise take a lot of manual effort. Microsoft Exchange PowerShell Essentials will provide all the required details for Active Directory, System, and Exchange administrators to help them understand Windows PowerShell and build the required scripts to manage the Exchange Infrastructure.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing permissions


In this topic, we will look at ways by which we can assign permissions to users or groups called delegates. It allows the delegates to open and send messages from other mailboxes. Permissions can be assigned to mailboxes, distribution groups, and mail-enabled security groups. The following permissions can be assigned to delegates:

  • Full Access: A delegate of a mailbox has full access to open a mailbox and access the content. This permission, however, will not allow the delegate to send mail from that mailbox.

  • Send As: The Send As permission will allow the delegate to send messages from the other mailbox. The message in this case will appear to be coming from the mailbox owner. If Send As is used for a group, the message will appear to be originating from this group.

  • Send on Behalf: This permission will also allow a delegate to send messages from other user's mailbox. Unlike the Send As permission, the message from this field will indicate that this message was sent by the...