This is a simple script that will allow an administrator to achieve the below tasks;
- Convert a User mailbox to a Shared Mailbox
- Enable Messages sent from the shared mailbox to be saved to the Sent Items folder of the shared mailbox
Let’s take the below scenario;
User Mailbox – user@contoso.com
Shared Mailbox – shared@contoso.com (user@contoso.com has SendAs and FullAccess permissions)
In a case where if user(user@contoso.com) tries to send an email with SendAs/SendOnBehalfOf permissions for ‘shared@contoso.com‘, the sent email will only be available in the primary users ‘Sent Items‘ ONLY. In a business requirement where the mail should also be present in the ‘shared@contoso.com‘ shared mailbox, we would require the below permissions to be enabled. Once done, the email with SendAs/SendOnBehalfOf permission will be in both user@contoso.com and shared@contoso.com mailboxes’ Sent Items.
The MessageCopyForSendOnBehalfEnabled parameter specifies whether to copy the sender for messages that are sent from a mailbox by users that have the “send on behalf of” permission. In this script we will be enabling this by setting the value to $true; where when a user sends a message from the mailbox by using the “send on behalf of” permission, a copy of the message is sent to the sender’s mailbox.
The MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled parameter specifies whether to copy the sender for messages that are sent from a mailbox by users that have the “send as” permission. In this script we will be enabling this by setting the value to $true; where when a user sends a message from the mailbox by using the “send as” permission, a copy of the message is sent to the sender’s mailbox.
Want to give a try? you can get the script here..
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