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Default Calendar permission Powershell GUI for Exchange 2010 SP1 and up

One of the new cmdlets in Exchange 2010 SP1 is the Set-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet which was an addition to the other Exchange 2010 RTM folder permission cmdlets get-MailboxFolderPermission and add-MailboxFolderPermission. What this cmdlet gives you the ability to do is update the permissions of any folder within a mailbox as long as you are a member of the RBAC roles that allows you set them as specified in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638132.aspx. Another thing this cmdlet does is give me the ability to revisit the default calendar folder permission GUI from this post(which used EWS and will still work okay on 2010) and rewrite this to be able to be used in Remote powershell so it will work against any 2010 SP1 server as well as anything else that supports these cmdlets such as live@edu or Office365.

If you don't really want a GUI and would rather just export the permissions to CSV modify them and then reimport them that's easy to do for example to export the settings to a csv file.

$rptCollection = @()
$mailboxes = get-mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited
$mailboxes | foreach-object{
$alias = $_.alias + ":\Calendar"
$displayName = $_.DisplayName
write-host $alias
$permissions = Get-MailboxFolderPermission $alias | Where-Object {$_.Identity.ToString() -eq "Default"}
if($permissions -ne $null){
$stringPerms = ""
foreach($perms in $permissions.AccessRights){$stringPerms = $stringPerms + $perms + " "}
Add-Member -InputObject $permissions -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Alias" -Value $alias -Force
Add-Member -InputObject $permissions -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "StringAccessRights" -Value $stringPerms -Force
$rptCollection += $permissions
}

}
$rptCollection | export-csv -notypeInformation c:\defaultperms.csv

To then re-import them from a csv file you can use

import-csv c:\defaultperms.csv | foreach-object{
"Seting Rights on " + $_.alias
Set-MailboxFolderPermission -id $_.alias -User $_.Identity -AccessRights $_.StringAccessRights

}

Personally i like the GUI which is a little more snappier with the GUI I left the permission descriptions in Outlook format rather then switching them to the accessrights role format(the great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from). To run this GUI you need to first start a Remote powershell session and import the Exchange 2010 cmdlets or run it directly from within the EMS. I've put a download of the new script here the code looks like

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


function GetPerms(){
$logTable.clear()

If ($seAuthCheck.Checked -eq $true){
$mailboxes = get-mailbox -server $snServerNameTextBox.Text -ResultSize Unlimited
}
else{
$mailboxes = get-mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited
}
$mailboxes | foreach-object{
$alias = $_.alias + ":\Calendar"
$displayName = $_.DisplayName
write-host $alias
$permissions = Get-MailboxFolderPermission $alias | Where-Object {$_.Identity.ToString() -eq "Default"}
if($permissions -ne $null){
Add-Member -InputObject $permissions -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Alias" -Value $alias -Force
$stringPerms = ""
foreach($perms in $permissions.AccessRights){$stringPerms = $stringPerms + $perms + " "}
$logTable.rows.add($displayName,$permissions.alias,$stringPerms)
}

}
$dgDataGrid.DataSource = $logTable

}

Function UpdatePerms{
if ($dgDataGrid.SelectedRows.Count -eq 0){
$mbtoSet = $dgDataGrid.Rows[$dgDataGrid.CurrentCell.RowIndex].Cells[1].Value
$newperm = ""
switch ($npNewpermDrop.Text){
"None" {$newperm = "None"}
"FreeBusyTimeOnly" {$newperm = "AvailabilityOnly"}
"FreeBusyTimeAndSubjectAndLocation" {$newperm = "LimitedDetails"}
"Reviewer" {$newperm = "Reviewer"}
"Contributer" {$newperm = "Contributer"}
"Author" {$newperm = "Author"}
"NonEditingAuthor" {$newperm = "NonEditingAuthor"}
"PublishingAuthor"{$newperm = "PublishingAuthor"}
"Author" {$newperm = "Author"}
"Editor" {$newperm = "Editor"}
"PublishingEditor"{$newperm = "PublishingEditor"}
}
Set-MailboxFolderPermission -id $mbtoSet -User Default -AccessRights $newperm
write-host "Permission updated" + $npNewpermDrop.Text
}
else{
$lcLoopCount = 0
while ($lcLoopCount -le ($dgDataGrid.SelectedRows.Count-1)) {
$mbtoSet = $dgDataGrid.SelectedRows[$lcLoopCount].Cells[1].Value

switch ($npNewpermDrop.Text){
"None" {$newperm = "None"}
"FreeBusyTimeOnly" {$newperm = "AvailabilityOnly"}
"FreeBusyTimeAndSubjectAndLocation" {$newperm = "LimitedDetails"}
"Reviewer" {$newperm = "Reviewer"}
"Contributer" {$newperm = "Contributer"}
"Author" {$newperm = "Author"}
"NonEditingAuthor" {$newperm = "NonEditingAuthor"}
"PublishingAuthor"{$newperm = "PublishingAuthor"}
"Author" {$newperm = "Author"}
"Editor" {$newperm = "Editor"}
"PublishingEditor"{$newperm = "PublishingEditor"}
}
Set-MailboxFolderPermission -id $mbtoSet -User Default -AccessRights $newperm
write-host "Permission updated" + $npNewpermDrop.Text
$lcLoopCount += 1
}
}
write-host "end PermUpdate"
write-host "Refresh Perms"
GetPerms
}


$form = new-object System.Windows.Forms.form
$form.Text = "Calender Permission Enum Tool"
$Dataset = New-Object System.Data.DataSet
$logTable = New-Object System.Data.DataTable
$logTable.TableName = "ActiveSyncLogs"
$logTable.Columns.Add("DisplayName");
$logTable.Columns.Add("MailboxFolderId");
$logTable.Columns.Add("Default-Permissions");



# Add Server DropLable
$snServerNamelableBox = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$snServerNamelableBox.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(10,60)
$snServerNamelableBox.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(70,20)
$snServerNamelableBox.Text = "ServerName"
$form.Controls.Add($snServerNamelableBox)

# Add ServerNameText
$snServerNameTextBox = new-object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
$snServerNameTextBox.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(90,60)
$snServerNameTextBox.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(150,20)
$snServerNameTextBox.Enabled = $false
$form.Controls.Add($snServerNameTextBox)

$seAuthCheck = new-object System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox
$seAuthCheck.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(250,60)
$seAuthCheck.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(130,25)
$seAuthCheck.Text = "Filter by"
$seAuthCheck.Add_Click({if ($seAuthCheck.Checked -eq $true){
$snServerNameTextBox.Enabled = $true
}
else{
$snServerNameTextBox.Enabled = $false}})
$form.Controls.Add($seAuthCheck)

# Add Get Perms Button

$gpgetperms = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$gpgetperms.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(10,20)
$gpgetperms.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(140,23)
$gpgetperms.Text = "Enumerate Permissions"
$gpgetperms.Add_Click({GetPerms})
$form.Controls.Add($gpgetperms)

# Add New Permission Drop Down
$npNewpermDrop = new-object System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox
$npNewpermDrop.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(350,20)
$npNewpermDrop.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(190,30)
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("None")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("FreeBusyTimeOnly")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("FreeBusyTimeAndSubjectAndLocation")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("Reviewer")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("Contributer")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("Author")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("NonEditingAuthor")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("PublishingAuthor")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("Editor")
$npNewpermDrop.Items.Add("PublishingEditor")
$form.Controls.Add($npNewpermDrop)

# Add Apply Button

$exButton = new-object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$exButton.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(550,20)
$exButton.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(60,20)
$exButton.Text = "Apply"
$exButton.Add_Click({UpdatePerms})
$form.Controls.Add($exButton)

# New setting Group Box

$OfGbox = new-object System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
$OfGbox.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(320,0)
$OfGbox.Size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(300,50)
$OfGbox.Text = "New Permission Settings"
$form.Controls.Add($OfGbox)

# Add DataGrid View

$dgDataGrid = new-object System.windows.forms.DataGridView
$dgDataGrid.Location = new-object System.Drawing.Size(10,130)
$dgDataGrid.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(750,550)
$dgDataGrid.AutoSizeColumnsMode = "AllCells"
$dgDataGrid.SelectionMode = "FullRowSelect"
$form.Controls.Add($dgDataGrid)


$form.Text = "Exchange 2010 Default Calendar Permissions Form"
$form.size = new-object System.Drawing.Size(800,730)

$form.autoscroll = $true
$form.topmost = $true
$form.Add_Shown({$form.Activate()})
$form.ShowDialog()
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