Hi I want to create around 1000+ new exchange 2007 mailboxes for existing AD user accounts. Is there a simpler way to do this? Script to create mailboxes for users $mailbox=import-csv C:\Users\admin-me\Desktop\mail.csv foreach ($mailbox in $mailbox) {enable-mailbox -identity $mailbox.identity -database $mailbox.database} The above script seems to create the mailboxes but throws up an error due to the enable-mailbox function: The term 'enable-mailbox' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. I also need to create another script or add to above script to set a mailbox retention policy as I have tried below $data = import-csv C:\Users\admin-me\Desktop\180.csv foreach ($line in $data) {set-mailbox $line.mailboxname -managedfoldermailboxpolicy 'Mailbox retention 180 days' -managedfoldermailboxpolicyallowed -confirm:$false} Also need to create a script to prohibit email sending restrictions to 17MB per email, but allow users to receive emails Any help on merging all above scripts would be very much appreciated. Or if I have to run three seperate scripts thats fine too for same user base Many Thanks for reading

What creates that csv file in the first place? Is the selection criteria within AD already? You could easily run $userlist = Get-User <some filter criteria> $userlist | Enable-Mailbox $userlist | Set-Mailbox -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy 'Mailbox retention 180 days' -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicyAllowed Mike Crowley | MVP My Blog -- Planet Technologies

What creates that csv file in the first place? Is the selection criteria within AD already? You could easily run $userlist = Get-User <some filter criteria> $userlist | Enable-Mailbox $userlist | Set-Mailbox -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy 'Mailbox retention 180 days' -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicyAllowed Mike Crowley | MVP My Blog -- Planet Technologies

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Hi Mike Thank you for the reply. I manually populate the CSV file with user IDs that need email accounts. Please could you show me a way to combine all three scripts into one script rather than run them seperately? The relevant Exchange admin tools are installed. The first script creating mailboxes above works but I get an error coming back enable-mailbox: cannot bind parameter 'identity'. Cannot convert value "" to type "microsoft .exchange.configuration.tasks.useridparameter". Error: "The parameter value of this type Microsoft.exchange.configuration.tasks.useridparam eter cannot be empty Parameter name: identity" Thanks Andy

Yes, I can help combine the code, but you must first tell me what the selection criteria would be. You're saying you enter 1000 accounts manually into a csv. That sounds like a horrible afternoon. :) enable-mailbox requires an identity parameter. This can be passed through the pipeline, but it depend on what your csv looks like, or better yet, what we grab using criteria I asked about above. Mike Crowley | MVP My Blog -- Planet Technologies

Hi Mike No worries I found a solution :-) Thanks for your help nevertheless Andy