Exchange 2013 Rules / Restrictions

[Hay11Mac]

Hey

 

How do I go about setting up a restriction in Exchange 2013 to stop our staff being able to send internal emails to more than 20 users? Currently we are being flooded with "All Staff" emails and our headteacher has asked us whether the above is possible... I believe it is possible I'm just unsure how to implement it...

 

Also is it possible to only allow certain users access to send "All Staff" emails?

 

Any help gratefully received

 

Hay11Mac

[mrbios]

In an individual account under mailbox features > mail flow, there's an option for "Recipient limit"

 

To set this en mass, you need a powershell command if i remember correctly...i'll just see if i can find it and edit.

 

EDIT: everything you need should be here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310760(v=exchg.141).aspx

 

EDIT2: in hindsight though, your head should do his job properly and inform staff about their over eager communications and to tone it down a bit. Personally we restrict students to no more than 5 recipients, but staff are unlimited and we have various distribution groups for all staff, all teachers and tas, all support staff etc. If someone abuses this system it's managements job to deal with it, not IT's job to stick a patch on the problem.

Edited September 30, 2015 by mrbios

[Hay11Mac]

I agree!

 

Thanks for your help though

 

My only other question is how do I give Staff a limit of 20 and Students a limit of 5??? as from what I can see if I set a limit it's going to do it globally...

[halbaradkenafin]

I agree!

 

Thanks for your help though

 

My only other question is how do I give Staff a limit of 20 and Students a limit of 5??? as from what I can see if I set a limit it's going to do it globally...

 

Powershell should be able to do it per mailbox, the link above should help with that.

[3s-gtech]

If you set up security groups containing the users that may use the 'all staff' lists, you can then add these via the EMC for the selected mailing list. The default for lists is for all internal users to send to them - just add the groups in here (don't have my PC in front of me to give you the exact section). Nice and easy and GUI led anyway.

[mrbios]

This is the easiest way really, set it by OU the users belong to:

Get-Mailbox -OrganizationalUnit "Domain.local/Domain Users/Students" | Set-Mailbox -RecipientLimits 5

 

Modify the OU path and limit as needed, that'll set the recipient limit on each mailbox individually.

[3s-gtech]

If you set up security groups containing the users that may use the 'all staff' lists, you can then add these via the EMC for the selected mailing list. The default for lists is for all internal users to send to them - just add the groups in here (don't have my PC in front of me to give you the exact section). Nice and easy and GUI led anyway.

 

Now I have the admin centre in front of me. Click on Delivery Management for the selected mail list, click on + and add the groups/users that you want to be able to use the list.