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Unfortunately you cannot use New-Mailbox or Set-Mailbox to add a distribution group for a user mailbox.<br />
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Try using Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r ... <a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124340(v=exchg.160).aspx" rel="ugc">https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124340(v=exchg.160).aspx</a><br />
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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. &nbsp;Therefore the CSV would look like this...<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41802574-1"><span>User,DistroGroup</span>
<span>JDoe,Group1</span>
<span>JDoe,Group2</span>
<span>JDoe,Group3</span>
<span>JSmith,Group3</span>
<span>JCool,Group1</span>
<span>JCool,Group4</span>
</code></pre>
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Hope thise helps.
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Hi akhater,<br />
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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 ?<br />
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thanks
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This is for distribution groups &nbsp;it can be a security group but it has to be email enabled in exchange
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it is a universal distribution group mail enabled I just cheked now<br />
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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 <br />
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Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -like $_.upn} | Disable-ADAccount<br />
&nbsp;Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r -Identity &quot;ActiveSync&quot; -Member $_.upn<br />
&nbsp;Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r -Identity &quot;OWA&quot; -Member $_.upn<br />
&nbsp;}
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You do not need to add the ; it can be replaced by an &quot;enter&quot; &nbsp;at the end of each line
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If you want to run it as one line then you need to add the semicolon
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thanks I will let you know tomorrow
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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<br />
&nbsp;first question<br />
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&nbsp;1) &nbsp;have I missed anything, I am running all in one line<br />
&nbsp;2) we have enabled AD accounts in domain.com, I am right now manually creating those accounts and then running the script<br />
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&nbsp;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<br />
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&nbsp;3) when the script runs on the exchange side I want user@domain-retail.com also added in the email address as primary<br />
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&nbsp;Import-CSV CreateMailboxes-tt.csv | ForEach {<br />
&nbsp; New-Mailbox -Alias $_.alias -Name $_.name -FirstName $_.Givenname -LastName $_.Surname -userPrincipalName $_.UPN -Database “Field Mailbox Database” -OrganizationalUnit ' Email accounts' -Password $Password -LinkedDomainController &quot;domain..COM&quot; -LinkedMasterAccount &quot;domain\$($_.Name)&quot;; <br />
&nbsp; Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -like $_.upn} | Disable-ADAccount<br />
&nbsp; Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r -Identity &quot;ActiveSync&quot; -Member $_.upn;<br />
&nbsp; Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r -Identity &quot;OWA&quot; -Member $_.upn;<br />
&nbsp; } <br />
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I am running this as one whole line , script runs but never makes the user member of those groups
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If you are not the manager of those specific distributions groups, you will need to add the &quot;-BypassSecurityGroupManag<wbr />erCheck&quot; parameter to the end of each of those commands...<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41836965-1"><span>Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity &quot;ActiveSync&quot; -Member $_.upn -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck</span>
</code></pre>
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41836965-2"><span>Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity &quot;OWA&quot; -Member $_.upn -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck</span>
</code></pre>
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That parameter will allow the user to be added to the DG without manager permission.
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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<br />
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can you put in the script
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Disregard what I recommended about using the &quot;-BypassSecurityGroupManag<wbr />erCheck&quot; parameter. &nbsp;That parameter is not available in and does not apply to Exchange 2007.
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so what am I missing here I am running all in one line and that email distribution group is not adding to user properties.<br />
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Import-CSV CreateMailboxes-tt.csv | ForEach {<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;New-Mailbox -Alias $_.alias -Name $_.name -FirstName $_.Givenname -LastName $_.Surname -userPrincipalName $_.UPN -Database “Field Mailbox Database” -OrganizationalUnit ' Email accounts' -Password $Password -LinkedDomainController &quot;domain..COM&quot; -LinkedMasterAccount &quot;domain\$($_.Name)&quot;; <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Get-ADUser -Filter {userprincipalname -like $_.upn} | Disable-ADAccount<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r -Identity &quot;ActiveSync&quot; -Member $_.upn;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Add-DistributionGroupMembe<wbr />r -Identity &quot;OWA&quot; -Member $_.upn;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;} <br />
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also I posted another question where I am running script bulk add user account creation and I am getting this error<br />
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I suggest opening a new request since you already awarded points to this question.
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I am attaching script which I use to create bulk mailbox in resource forest setup.<br />
<br />
the only thing I am missing AD groups &nbsp;, I need to make them manually member of some groups like active sync, tablets group, <br />
<br />
is there any way I can edit my script so that users created are also having members of AD groups so I don't need to manually add for each &nbsp;user.<br />
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mailbox-script-main-1.txt

I am attaching script which I use to create bulk mailbox in resource forest setup.

the only thing I am missing AD groups  , I need to make them manually member of some groups like active sync, tablets group, 

is there any way I can edit my script so that users created are also having members of AD groups so I don't need to manually add for each  user.

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