HOW TO: Add ResourceDelegates for a Room Mailbox(s) based on a specified criteria using Powershell script
If you want to add ResourceDelegates for a Room Mailbox based on a specific criteria you can use the script below:
In this case we add all users in a specific database as ResourceDelegates
Create a .PS1 file as below:
#This function returns all the users from a specific Database
#This function can be altered to return mailboxes based on any other criteriaFunction GetUsers
{
param($DbName="")
$UMailboxes=""
$UMailboxes =Get-Mailbox -Database $DbName -RecipientTypeDetails Usermailbox
return $UMailboxes
}
#Get the Room Mailboxes for which we have to set the Delegates
#In this case we have to set the Delegates for the Room Mailbox tproom
Get-Mailbox -identity tproom -RecipientTypeDetails RoomMailbox |
foreach{
#Call the GetUsers function passing in the Database name.
Set-MailboxCalendarSettings -Identity $_.Alias
-ResourceDelegates (GetUsers "ex200701\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database")
}
To Run the script:
1)Open the Exchange Management Shell
2)Navigate to the location where you have stored the script file.
3)Type in .\ScriptName.PS1 and hit enter to execute the script.