Create Outlook Web App Mailbox Policy
Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 Topic Last Modified: 2009-08-20
You can create an Outlook Web App mailbox policy to apply a common set of policy settings, such as attachment settings. Outlook Web App mailbox policies are useful for applying and standardizing settings for specific groups of users.
When the Client Access server role is installed, a default Outlook Web App mailbox policy is created. You can create additional Outlook Web App mailbox policies as needed. You apply Outlook Web App mailbox policies by changing the properties of mailboxes.
Looking for other management tasks related to Outlook Web App mailbox policies? Check out Managing Outlook Web App Mailbox Policies.
Prerequisites
The Client Access server role has been installed.
What Do You Want to Do?
Use the EMC to create an Outlook Web App mailbox policy
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Outlook Web App mailbox policies" entry in the Client Access Permissions topic.
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In the console tree, navigate to Organization
Configuration > Client Access.
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In the work pane, click the Outlook Web App Mailbox
Policies tab.
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In the action pane, click New Outlook Web App Mailbox
Policy.
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In the New UM Mailbox Policy wizard, complete the following
fields:
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Outlook Web App mailbox policy name Use
this text box to specify a unique name for the Outlook Web App mailbox
policy. This is a display name that appears in the Exchange Management
Console.
The Outlook Web App mailbox policy name is required, but it is used for display only. Because your organization may use multiple Outlook Web App mailbox policies, we recommend that you use meaningful names for your Outlook Web App mailbox policies. The maximum length of an Outlook Web App mailbox policy name is 64 characters, and it can include spaces. However, it can't include any of the following characters: " / \ [ ] : ; | = , + * ? < >.
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Select the features that you want to enable or
disable for the Outlook Web App mailbox policy Select the
features that you want to enable or disable, and then click Enable
or Disable to set them.
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Click New to create your policy.
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Outlook Web App mailbox policy name Use
this text box to specify a unique name for the Outlook Web App mailbox
policy. This is a display name that appears in the Exchange Management
Console.
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On the Completion page, confirm whether the
Outlook Web App mailbox policy was successfully created:
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A status of Completed indicates that the
wizard completed the task successfully.
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A status of Failed indicates that the
task wasn't completed. If the task fails, review the summary for an
explanation, and then click Back to make any
configuration changes.
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A status of Completed indicates that the
wizard completed the task successfully.
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Click Finish to complete the New
Outlook Web App Mailbox Policy wizard.
Use the Shell to create an Outlook Web App mailbox policy
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Outlook Web App mailbox policies" entry in the Client Access Permissions topic.
This example creates an Outlook Web App mailbox policy named Policy1:
New-OwaMailboxPolicy -Name Policy1
For more information about syntax and parameters, see New-OwaMailboxPolicy.
Other Tasks
After you create an Outlook Web App mailbox policy, you may also want to View or Configure Outlook Web App Mailbox Policy Properties.
To apply the mailbox policy named password disabled to a group called owapd run
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-DistributionGroupMember ow* |Set-CASMailbox -OwaMailboxPolicy(get-owamailboxpolicy "passwor
d disabled").identity


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