Exchange 2007: Creating groups or policies to enable or disable OWA features
Good Afternoon,We have a clean install of Exchange 2007 in a single domain at a K-12 school district. We have all users imported and ready to go, able to login and send/recieve mail. Here is the question. How do you create groups or policies to disable or enable features in the OWA client? Example, I would like to create a group or policy for students that removes Web-Ready Documents, Task or other features that are available in the OWA. How is this done? Thank you for your time.
August 1st, 2007 8:36pm

Some of this you can do via the EMS. You will need a mail group for your students, let's say it is called "All Students". You will use two cmdlets to accomplish this. Here is an example: Get-DistributionGroupMember "All Students" | Set-CasMailbox -OWATasksEnableFalse -OWAJournalEnabledFalse This command enumerates the members of the "All Students" group and then pipes each of those objects (identifiers for each mailbox) to the Set-CasMailbox cmdlet. I realize the first time you look at this it might seem a bit confusing, but believe me, if I can figure it out than anyone can! Here is an example of some of the properties that you can manipulate with the Set-CASMailbox cmdlet. I don't think you can enable/disable Web-Ready documents though. At least not in the E2K7 SP1 (Beta 1) build that I'm using. ___________ [PS] C:\>Get-CASMailbox "mcBee, James W." | fl ProtocolSettings : {}DisplayName : McBee, Jim W.ActiveSyncAllowedDeviceIDs : {}ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy : DefaultActiveSyncMailboxPolicyIsDefaulted : TrueActiveSyncDebugLogging :ActiveSyncEnabled : TrueHasActiveSyncDevicePartnership : FalseOWAEnabled : TrueOWACalendarEnabled :OWAContactsEnabled :OWATasksEnabled :OWAJournalEnabled :OWANotesEnabled :OWARemindersAndNotificationsEnabled :OWAPremiumClientEnabled :OWASpellCheckerEnabled :OWASearchFoldersEnabled :OWASignaturesEnabled :OWAThemeSelectionEnabled :OWAJunkEmailEnabled :OWAUMIntegrationEnabled :OWAWSSAccessOnPublicComputersEnabled :OWAWSSAccessOnPrivateComputersEnabled :OWAUNCAccessOnPublicComputersEnabled :OWAUNCAccessOnPrivateComputersEnabled :OWAActiveSyncIntegrationEnabled :OWAAllAddressListsEnabled :OWAChangePasswordEnabled :OWARulesEnabled :OWAPublicFoldersEnabled :OWASMimeEnabled :OWARecoverDeletedItemsEnabled :PopEnabled : TruePopUseProtocolDefaults : TruePopMessagesRetrievalMimeFormat : BestBodyFormatImapEnabled : TrueImapUseProtocolDefaults : TrueImapMessagesRetrievalMimeFormat : BestBodyFormatMAPIEnabled : TrueMAPIBlockOutlookNonCachedMode : FalseMAPIBlockOutlookVersions :MAPIBlockOutlookRpcHttp : False
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August 1st, 2007 9:38pm

Thank you Jim! Your answer was fast and what I needed. This answer has also gave me a couple more ideas on what to do with a couple of other tasks.Again, thank you for your time.
August 2nd, 2007 5:21pm

You are welcome. The PowerShell and the EMS are really great tools even for a GUI person like me. I hope you find some useful things there. Microsoft has an "unofficial" site with some great times called http://www.exchangeninjas.com
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August 2nd, 2007 8:01pm

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