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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

Finding users with full access to mailboxes


One of the issues with assigning full mailbox access to users and support personnel is that things change over time. People change roles, move to other departments, or even leave the organization. Keeping track of all of this and removing full access permissions when required can be challenging in a fast-paced environment. This recipe will allow you to solve that issue using the Exchange Management Shell to find out exactly who has full access permissions for the mailboxes in your environment.

How to do it...

To find all of the users or groups who have been assigned full access rights to a mailbox, use the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet:

Get-MailboxPermission -Identity administrator | 
  Where-Object {$_.AccessRights -like "*FullAccess*"}

You can see here that we are limiting the results using a filter by piping the output to the Where-Object cmdlet. Only the users with the FullAccess access rights will be returned.

How it works...

The previous command...