Disabling owa through group policy for specific users?
hey guys
any way of disabling OWA for groups of users on exchange 2007 using Group policies? I didn't want to manually disable it from the exchange management console. Any way of doing this with GP or some sort of add-in?
Thanks
Yashy
any way of disabling OWA for groups of users on exchange 2007 using Group policies? I didn't want to manually disable it from the exchange management console. Any way of doing this with GP or some sort of add-in?
Thanks
Yashy
waleeda
you can create a new GPO and list the OWA URL as a restricted web site, and apply that GPO on those users
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thanks man.
is there a script of any kind that does this?
is there a script of any kind that does this?
no need for script, because script will take time to run and it will slow the logon process, so better if you applied by group policy only, normally we are using the script if we dont have the option in the GPO settings
Do you mean you want to prevent those account from being enabled on OWA by disabling the http\OWA protocol on the Exchange features tab of a user account.
I coundnt find it when I looked for my organisation so I have a script that Enables \ disables it based on membership of an AD group. Happy to post it for you if you cant do it via GPO.
I coundnt find it when I looked for my organisation so I have a script that Enables \ disables it based on membership of an AD group. Happy to post it for you if you cant do it via GPO.
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Yes GundogTrainer, that's what I wanted. To prevent the account from being enabled on OWA is what I want to stop them being able to use OWA. Will your script do that?
Although waleeda is mentioning that it will slow down things?
Many thanks.
Although waleeda is mentioning that it will slow down things?
Many thanks.
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Yes, the script would be great if you could post that. Much appreciate it.
Can you have a look at this previous post as the script I am using at the moment is for the mobile services not the OWA protocol - my bad !
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26617753/Script-that-can-get-to-a-user's-protocolsettings-and-remove-the-mapi-from-it-I-want-to-query-every-user-in-a-OU-and-do-this-one-after-the-other.html
I can merge it with my script in the morning so it would disable based on group membership.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26617753/Script-that-can-get-to-a-user's-protocolsettings-and-remove-the-mapi-from-it-I-want-to-query-every-user-in-a-OU-and-do-this-one-after-the-other.html
I can merge it with my script in the morning so it would disable based on group membership.
the GPO better than the script
because the feature already there and the script will slow down the logon process
because the feature already there and the script will slow down the logon process
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Typical I found a microsoft article that shows a method of restricting access to OWA based upon the user having a specific email domain - specified by a reciepient policy, and a new HTTP virtual server.
I would have prefered to have read this article before fixing the vbscript....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830827
I would have prefered to have read this article before fixing the vbscript....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830827