I have to keep adding second (third and many more) smtp address to peoples mailboxes for testing purposes, ie:

the user needs to register an email address to test something so I add test1@domain.com to his mailbox, then the week after he needs another 10 adding so test2, test3 etc etc. Currently I am manually going in and adding the smtp addresses using the EMC.

My question is, can this be done via the PS? As exchange doesn’t show me what its done (like when you add a new mail box it displays the script for future reference) after its complete the task I don’t know. I haven’t been able to figure it out. I am a complete novice with PS as I tend to opt for the EMC to do tasks.

Any help would be most appreciated

Catherine

Hello;

The first line, ($user = get-mailbox emooney) gets the mailbox.
The second line, ($user.emailAddresses += "newsmtp@domain.com") adds the new mail address. Here, you would replace newwsmtp@domain.com with emooney$domain.com. The += in that line takes the existing emailaddresses, and adds the new one.
The third line, (Set-Mailbox $user -emailAddresses $user.emailAddresses) puts the collection of addressses into the mailbox object.

You can add more addresses by adding more lines like the second one, so:

$user

I have a question about this script. My organization is going through a re-branding, and i I need to add a new email address for every user (and distribution list) in our organization, and set that email address as the default Outbound email address. This looks exactly like what i would need, the question i have is how to generate the email addresses for the script. we want everyone to have first.last@company.com, and firstInitialLastname@company.com. Normally i would use the recipient policy, but most of our users have the recipient policy enforcement disabled, since we have recently merged three different organizations, and some people have companyX email addresses, while others have CompanyZ, and others have CompanyA, so i need to script EVERYONE having the new email address.

I am assuming i would do something like this:

$user = Get-Mailbox *
$user.emailaddress+="???????????????????????????" -->What do i put here for First.Last@company.com
Set-Mailbox $user -emailaddresses $user.emailaddresses

Then i would assume i would write a second script that would be:
$user = Get-Mailbox *
$user.emailaddress+="???????????????????????????" --> what do i put here for FirstInitialLastName@company.com

and that would be it for the addition of the second one.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. We are launching our new brand tomorrow, so i need to get this down pat so i can run the script at 6:00am tomorrow morning when we launch

Thanks much

app

Shay,

Thanks for this, I will try it out in the AM.  One question, from that code, where is the set default mailbox, or is that the set-mailbox $_ -emailAddresses $_.emailAddresses command.

I just want to make sure that i understand the syntax correctly.

thanks

app

You mean the default email address? :

# assuming the default will be the second address
$primary = $email2

# change the set-mailbox line to this
Set-Mailbox $_ -emailAddresses $_.emailAddresses -primarySmtpAddress $primary

So, if you were going to do this, your script would read:

Get-Mailbox -filter "RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox'" | foreach {

$user = Get-user $_.distinguishedName
$primary = $email1

if(!$user.firstName -and !$user.lastName -and !$user.Initials){
write-error "user information is not sufficient"
break
}

$email1= "{0}.{1}{2}" -f $user.firstName,$user.lastName, "@company.com"
$email2= "{0}.{1}{2}" -f $user.Initials?],$user.lastName, "@company.com"

$_.emailAddresses += ($email1,$email2)
Set-Mailbox $_ -emailAddresses $_.emailAddresses -primarySmtpAddress $primary

}

Thanks for the help.  I will report back in the AM how it went.

app

There yo go


1. Change all logical -and to -or
2. You can't use both PrimarySMTPAddress and EmailAddresses parameters at the same time (error), so I'm adding a second call to set-mailbox

Here's the last script version, it has been debugged and tested successfully.


Get-Mailbox -filter "RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox'" | foreach {

$user = Get-user $_.DistinguishedName

if(!$user.firstName -or !$user.lastName -or !$user.Initials){
write-error "user information is not sufficient"
break
}

$email1= "{0}.{1}{2}" -f $user.firstName,$user.lastName, "@companya.com"
$email2= "{0}{1}{2}" -f $user.Initials[0],$user.lastName, "@companya.com"
$primary = $email2

$_.emailAddresses += ($email1,$email2)
Set-Mailbox $_ -emailAddresses $_.emailAddresses
Set-Mailbox $_ -primarySmtpAddress $primary -emailAddressPolicyEnabled $false

}