exchange 2007, scripts

Unfortunately you cannot use New-Mailbox or Set-Mailbox to add a distribution group for a user mailbox.

Try using Add-DistributionGroupMember ... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124340(v=exchg.160).aspx

When I've scripted adding users to distros, I've had to add users one by one to the distro because I could not add multiple users at once to a group.  Therefore the CSV would look like this...

User,DistroGroup
JDoe,Group1
JDoe,Group2
JDoe,Group3
JSmith,Group3
JCool,Group1
JCool,Group4

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Hope thise helps.

Hi akhater,

I will set up like this tomorrow and let you know , just to confirm whether user is a member of security or distribution group the command will follow the same ?

thanks

This is for distribution groups  it can be a security group but it has to be email enabled in exchange

This is for distribution groups  it can be a security group but it has to be email enabled in exchange

it is a universal distribution group mail enabled I just cheked now

but when I execute the script in exchange shell do I need to type like colon or semi colon after disable-AD account or add the line which you mentioned

Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -like $_.upn} | Disable-ADAccount
 Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "ActiveSync" -Member $_.upn
 Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "OWA" -Member $_.upn
 }

You do not need to add the ; it can be replaced by an "enter"  at the end of each line

If you want to run it as one line then you need to add the semicolon

thanks I will let you know tomorrow

where we have exchange and disabled AD accounts on the same exchange server, I tried adding last 2 lines(distribution group) in the script but it didn't add the user in the group but the script as a whole ran successfully
 first question

 1)  have I missed anything, I am running all in one line
 2) we have enabled AD accounts in domain.com, I am right now manually creating those accounts and then running the script

 which creates Disabled AD accounts and exchange account in resource forest, can I run separately a script so it creats enabled AD ACCOUNTS in the account forest domain.com

 3) when the script runs on the exchange side I want user@domain-retail.com also added in the email address as primary

 Import-CSV CreateMailboxes-tt.csv | ForEach {
  New-Mailbox -Alias $_.alias -Name $_.name -FirstName $_.Givenname -LastName $_.Surname -userPrincipalName $_.UPN -Database “Field Mailbox Database” -OrganizationalUnit ' Email accounts' -Password $Password -LinkedDomainController "domain..COM" -LinkedMasterAccount "domain\$($_.Name)";
  Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -like $_.upn} | Disable-ADAccount
  Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "ActiveSync" -Member $_.upn;
  Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "OWA" -Member $_.upn;
  }

I am running this as one whole line , script runs but never makes the user member of those groups

If you are not the manager of those specific distributions groups, you will need to add the "-BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck" parameter to the end of each of those commands...

Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "ActiveSync" -Member $_.upn -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck

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Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "OWA" -Member $_.upn -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck

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That parameter will allow the user to be added to the DG without manager permission.

I am the admin and I need to add the users in those group, right now after script runs then I need to go to user propertie sin AD and then add them to those groups

can you put in the script

Disregard what I recommended about using the "-BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck" parameter.  That parameter is not available in and does not apply to Exchange 2007.

so what am I missing here I am running all in one line and that email distribution group is not adding to user properties.

Import-CSV CreateMailboxes-tt.csv | ForEach {
   New-Mailbox -Alias $_.alias -Name $_.name -FirstName $_.Givenname -LastName $_.Surname -userPrincipalName $_.UPN -Database “Field Mailbox Database” -OrganizationalUnit ' Email accounts' -Password $Password -LinkedDomainController "domain..COM" -LinkedMasterAccount "domain\$($_.Name)";
   Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -like $_.upn} | Disable-ADAccount
   Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "ActiveSync" -Member $_.upn;
   Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "OWA" -Member $_.upn;
   }

also I posted another question where I am running script bulk add user account creation and I am getting this error
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I suggest opening a new request since you already awarded points to this question.