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[sidnuts]

Can anyone help me with some powershell stuff. Basically, have set up the online mail server and imported users into it with a CSV file. I put a column in there called "CurrentAttribute1" which split the users into Staff/pupil/admin etc, and now I want to set up a group based on these attributes. Trouble is, it only lets me do it from powershell cmdlets. I can't even find the get cmdlet to return the full list of imported attributes, let alone start to build a group with them. Anyone got any ideas? Sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum, btw!

[sukh]

Hi

 

How did you import the users? Powershell?

 

What group do you want to setup? DL? SG? and do you want to assign this group a custom attriubute?

 

Sukh

[sidnuts]

Imported them using the import function on the system portal. I assigned each user a custom attribute denoting staff/pupil/admin/etc, and want to set up a distribution list based on these attributes, so I really want a script which will assign all users to a certain DL based on this switch, so to speak. Does that make sense?

Cheers for the quick response, btw!

[sukh]

So how many distribution lists do you want to set-up?

 

See below for powershell to create group

 

New-DistributionGroup: Exchange 2007 Help

 

Then set custom attribute on each group.

 

Also see.

 

Powershell « Live@edu

 

Sukh

[Arthur]

Either of these should do it...

 

New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name "All Staff" -IncludedRecipients MailboxUsers -ConditionalCustomAttribute1 Staff

 

New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name "All Staff" -RecipientFilter { (RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (CustomAttribute1 -eq 'Staff') }

 

e.g.

 

$LiveCred = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name "All Staff" -RecipientFilter { (RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (CustomAttribute1 -eq 'Staff') }

Remove-PSSession $Session

 

Links

http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/dd264649.aspx

http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/dd264647.aspx