Content Filtering System Whitelist GUI for Exchange 2007

If you’re using the built-in Content Filtering in Exchange 2007 on a Hub or Edge server you may want to take advantage of System white lists. But if you have used the Set-ContentFilterSetting cmdlet you may have noticed this isn't the most user friendly cmdlet. If you’re maintaining these lists on a regular basis you may really start to dislike the lack of a GUI well I certainly do so I built a pretty simple GUI to make managing the BypassedSenders and BypassedSenderDomains a more enjoyable experience.

It’s pretty simple code first it uses Get-ContentFilterSetting to get the current setting of both of these properties and then displays then in a DatagridView. You can then add more entries or change existing entries by editing the flexGrid then when you hit the update button it will run back through the datagrid values and then creates a collection which is then used to update the ByPassedSenders or ByPassedSenderDomains properties.

I've put a download of the script here the script look like

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.windows.forms")

function UpdateBypassSenders(){
$newcombCollection = @()
foreach($Item in $dgDataGrid.Rows){
if ($item.Cells[0].Value -ne $null){
if ($item.Cells[0].Value -ne ""){
$newcombCollection += $item.Cells[0].Value
}
}
}
Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenders $newcombCollection
$fsTable.Clear()
$contentFilterConfig = get-ContentFilterConfig
foreach ($ent in $contentFilterConfig.BypassedSenders){
$fsTable.Rows.add($ent.ToString())
}
$dgDataGrid.DataSource = $fsTable
}

function UpdateBypassSenderDomains(){
$newcombCollection = @()
foreach($Item in $dgDataGrid1.Rows){
if ($item.Cells[0].Value -ne $null){
if ($item.Cells[0].Value -ne ""){
$newcombCollection += $item.Cells[0].Value
}
}
}
Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenderDomains $newcombCollection
$fsTable1.Clear()
$contentFilterConfig = get-ContentFilterConfig
foreach ($ent in $contentFilterConfig.BypassedSenderDomains){
$fsTable1.Rows.add($ent.ToString())
}
$dgDataGrid1.DataSource = $fsTable1
}

$form = new-object System.Windows.Forms.form

$contentFilterConfig = get-ContentFilterConfig
$Dataset = New-Object System.Data.DataSet
$fsTable = New-Object System.Data.DataTable
$fsTable.TableName = "BypasssedSender"
$fsTable.Columns.Add("WhitelistEntry")
$BypassSenderArray = $contentFilterConfig.BypassedSenders.ToString().Split(',')

foreach ($ent in $contentFilterConfig.BypassedSenders){
$fsTable.Rows.add($ent.ToString())
}

$fsTable1 = New-Object System.Data.DataTable
$fsTable1.TableName = "BypassedSenderDomains"
$fsTable1.Columns.Add("WhitelistEntry")

foreach ($ent in $contentFilterConfig.BypassedSenderDomains){
$fsTable1.Rows.add($ent.ToString())
}

$dgDataGrid = new-object System.windows.forms.DataGridView
$dgDataGrid.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(20,50)
$dgDataGrid.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(250,450)
$dgDataGrid.AutoSizeRowsMode = "AllHeaders"
$form.Controls.Add($dgDataGrid)
$dgDataGrid.DataSource = $fsTable

$dgDataGrid1 = new-object System.windows.forms.DataGridView
$dgDataGrid1.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(320,50)
$dgDataGrid1.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(250,450)
$dgDataGrid1.AutoSizeRowsMode = "AllHeaders"
$form.Controls.Add($dgDataGrid1)
$dgDataGrid1.DataSource = $fsTable1




# Add Update Button

$exButton = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$exButton.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(20,530)
$exButton.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(150,20)
$exButton.Text = "Update - Senders"
$exButton.Add_Click({UpdateBypassSenders})
$form.Controls.Add($exButton)

# Add Update Button

$exButton1 = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$exButton1.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(320,530)
$exButton1.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(150,20)
$exButton1.Text = "Update - Domains"
$exButton1.Add_Click({UpdateBypassSenderDomains})
$form.Controls.Add($exButton1)

$Gbox = new-object System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
$Gbox.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(10,15)
$Gbox.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(270,550)
$Gbox.Text = "By-Passed Senders"
$form.Controls.Add($Gbox)

$Gbox1 = new-object System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
$Gbox1.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(310,15)
$Gbox1.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(270,550)
$Gbox1.Text = "By-Passed Sender Domains"
$form.Controls.Add($Gbox1)

$form.Text = "Exchange 2007 WhiteList Form"
$form.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(600,600)
$form.autoscroll = $true
$form.Add_Shown({$form.Activate()})
$form.ShowDialog()