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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

Blocking Outlook clients from connecting to Exchange


Exchange gives you plenty of options to block clients from connecting to mailboxes, depending on the version of the Outlook client and the method used to access the mailbox. In this recipe, you'll learn how to configure these options using the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

  1. The Set-CASMailbox can be used to block MAPI access to mailboxes based on several factors. For example, we can prevent an individual user from using Outlook to connect using Outlook Anywhere:

    Set-CASMailbox -Identity dsmith -MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp $true
    
  2. In addition, we can also prevent a user whose Outlook is not configured in cached mode from connecting to their mailbox using the following command:

    Set-CASMailbox -Identity dsmith `
    -MAPIBlockOutlookNonCachedMode $true
    

    In both cases, the user can still access their mailbox using OWA, as long as the OWAEnabled property is set to $true.

  3. You can also block users from connecting to clients based on their version...