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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing user access to public folders


Now that we have a public folder structure, we realize that the default permissions aren't appropriate. So we want to change them a little bit.

First, we don't want end users to create items in folders they shouldn't create objects in.

The Default user is given author permissions, which in short means that they can read and create items in that folder. A full permission list can be found in this section.

In this recipe, we will start by changing the permissions for the Default user, and later on, we will configure some security groups with public folder permissions.

How to do it...

The following commands remove the permissions for the Default user and the second one will add new permissions:

Get-PublicFolder –Recurse | Get-PublicFolderClientPermission
Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission –Identity "\" –User Default
Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission –Identity "\Top Folder" `
–User Default
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission –Identity "\" –User Default `
–AccessRights...