[Outlook] Use PowerShell to does delegates like Outlook.

Environment:exchange SP2 + Outlook 2010

Adding delegate is actually not the easy I thought, at least no just one command to complete everything, this is because Many additional actions are performed by Outlook client, command on server actually is one of the them.

Below is a typical settings screenshot from Outlook, you can see I highlighted those permission items.

1. Editor permission of Calendar

2. Editor permission of Tasks

3. "Delegate receives copies of meeting-related messages sent to me" would be ticked

Things already like this in old Outlook 2003 client, but the additional permissions/options complete by Outlook cause a PR Oblem, we need to does mutliple steps from server with many commands.

In Exchange, the cmdlet set-mailbox-grantsendonbehalfto can is used to grant delegate, Add-mailboxfolderpermission C Mdlet can used to the grant folder permissions like Calendar and Tasks. Problem is on the option ' Delegate receives copies of meeting-related messages sent to me ', there is no directly cmdlet CA n Enable this option, anyhow this option was quite necessaried by assistants.

To solve the problem, since normal cmdlets can ' t being used, EWS (Exchagne Web service) is needed, actually outlook is also u Se EWS to do the same.

First, we need download EWS API from Microsoft.

EWS api-http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35371

can choose to install or just extract what we need from the installer with 7-zip instead, all we need are "microsoft.ex Change. WebServices.dll ".

Open the PowerShell, use Import-module to import the binary DLL, so the classes can is used by us, of course [Reflection.a Ssembly]::loadfile () can do the same.

Import-module. \microsoft.exchange.webservices.dll

Below command Create a Exchangeservice instance from the class, if don ' t specify Exchange version, the instance would use T He latest version in API by default.

$Service = New-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService (' exchange2010_sp2 ')

User $Service can show some properties, method can be retrieved by Get-member cmdlets, too many of them I won ' t paste here.

Now, we need to specify the URL of EWS, or use Autodiscover function of Exchange, I recommand Autodiscover function, Becau Se It reads settings of Autodiscover directly from Active Directory, as long as Outlook works fine, the function must Runn ing well too.

$Service. Autodiscoverurl (' [email protected] ')

Or, specify EWS URL like below

$Service. Url = ' Https://CASServer/ews/exchange.asmx '

Dategates related methods can be known from $Service | Get-member

Adddelegatesgetdelegatesremovedelegatesupdatedelegates

Obviously, Adddalegates is the one, $Service. Adddelegates can output its paramembers,

Parameter 1 is a mailbox, which are the target MailboxMicrosoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Mailbox Mailboxparameter 2 is a M EetingRequestsDeliveryScopeMicrosoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.MeetingRequestsDeliveryScope Meetingrequestsdeliveryscopeparameter 3 is a delegateusers CollectionMicrosoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.DelegateUser

Parameter 2, you can see it from below Outlook screenshot,

Now we have the method, parameters, including parameter types, generate them now.

Parameter 1,

$Mailbox = New-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Mailbox (' [email protected] ')

Parameter 2,

$Scope = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.MeetingRequestsDeliveryScope]::D elegatesonly

Parameter 3,

$dgUser = New-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.DelegateUser (' [email protected]yyy.com ') $ DgUser.Permissions.CalendarFolderPermissionLevel = ' editor ' $dgUser. Permissions.tasksfolderpermissionlevel = ' editor ' $dgUser. Receivecopiesofmeetingmessages = $true  

All right, parameters filled, use Adddelegates method to apply it.

$Service. Adddelegates ($Mailbox, $Scope, $dgUser)

There'll is no errors if every step runs well, the method would return running result, even if failed we can still know W Hy failure.

[Outlook] Use PowerShell to does delegates like Outlook.