[Powershell] Setting Exchange RecipientLimits based on an AD Group

[Peter_W]

I made the script below when a student sent a mass email to everyone in the school . I tried using piping to make this a possible one-liner but there was whitespace added and the damn trim function wouldn't work.

 

I couldn't find anything on the web that did this so I hope this will be useful for anyone else.

 

add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010
import-module ActiveDirectory

$filepath = "C:\students.csv"

Get-ADGroupMember "Students" | Export-CSV $filepath

Import-CSV $filepath -Header dish,name,oc,uid,samaccname,sid | Foreach-Object{
  Set-Mailbox -Identity $_.samaccname -RecipientLimits 2
}

[ascott2]

I wrote a similar one a few years back, you can do it as a one liner and without the need for the AD module, so long as it is a group that has been enabled in exchange. I think it was something like this, using the Exchange Get-Group cmdlet rather than the AD Group cmdlet.

 

(get-group "GroupName").Members | Set-Mailbox -RecipientLimit 2