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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is a complex messaging system. Windows PowerShell 3 can be used in conjunction with Exchange Server 2013 to automate and manage routine and complex tasks to save time, money, and eliminate errors.Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook: Second Edition offers more than 120 recipes and solutions to everyday problems and tasks encountered in the management and administration of Exchange Server. If you want to write scripts that help you create mailboxes, monitor server resources, and generate detailed reports, then this Cookbook is for you. This practical guide to Powershell and Exchange Server 2013 will help you automate and manage time-consuming and reoccurring tasks quickly and efficiently. Starting by going through key PowerShell concepts and the Exchange Management Shell, this book will get you automating tasks that used to take hours in no time.With practical recipes on the management of recipients and mailboxes as well as distribution groups and address lists, this book will save you countless hours on repetitive tasks. Diving deeper, you will then manage your mailbox database, client access, and your transport servers with simple but effective scripts.This book finishes with advanced recipes on Exchange Server problems such as server monitoring as well as maintaining high availability and security. If you want to control every aspect of Exchange Server 2013 and learn how to save time with PowerShell, then this cookbook is for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sending e-mail messages as another user or group


In some environments, it may be required to allow users to send e-mail messages from a mailbox as if the owner of that mailbox had actually sent this message. This can be accomplished by granting Send-As permissions to a user on a particular mailbox. In addition, you can also allow a user to send e-mail messages that are sent using the identity of a distribution group. This recipe explains how you can manage these permissions from the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To assign Send-As permissions to a mailbox, we use the Add-ADPermission cmdlet:

Add-ADPermission -Identity "Frank Howe" `
-User "Eric Cook" `
-ExtendedRights Send-As

After running the previous command, Eric Cook can send messages from Frank Howe's mailbox.

How it works...

The Add-ADPermission cmdlet uses the -Identity parameter to classify the object to which you will assign the permissions. Unlike many of the Exchange cmdlets, you cannot use the alias of the mailbox when...