this script goes through outlook.
Each user need to fire this script (or fire it via logon script).
for the Root Folder, change:
set inbox = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").getDefaultFolder(6)
to
set inbox = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").Folder("Personal Folder")
(should do the trick but i didn't test it yet)
Regards,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
Monday, August 28, 2006, 11:00:14 AM, you wrote:
vwpn> Thanks Brian and Mathieu,
vwpn> I will tell a little bit more about the background of this. The
vwpn> customer has asked for a folder called "private" to be created in the
vwpn> root of every users mailbox and if possible set a quota to this folder.
vwpn> After this has been done, the customer wants to instruct his users to
vwpn> use only this folder only as their personal/private email folder and
vwpn> move everything that the users sees as being private, to the private
vwpn> folder. From that moment on, all other folders in the users mailboxes
vwpn> are no longer considered as private/personal.
vwpn> I do have some additional questions:
vwpn> - how would the script look if the requirement would be to create the
vwpn> folder in the root.
vwpn> - The way the script is set up now, do I have to set up which users
vwpn> this script will apply to, I mean will it now apply to all users in the
vwpn> entire domain which are mailbox enabled?
vwpn> - Is there any way that I can specify which users this script has to be
vwpn> applied to, I mean can I run it against all mailbox enabled users in a
vwpn> specific OU?
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vwpn> -------
vwpn> Re[2]: [ActiveDir] Add folder with quota to existing mailboxes - via
vwpn> scripting or tool
vwpn> From: Mathieu CHATEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
vwpn> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:24:47 +0200
vwpn> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
vwpn> --------
vwpn> Hello Victor,
vwpn> If the folder already exist, it will simply do nothing, except going
vwpn> into errors..
vwpn> need to add a on error resume next or test if the folder exist before.
vwpn> will create in the inbox, as a subfolder
vwpn> I don't see your goal with this folder...except if you turn special
vwpn> rights on it.
vwpn> may ask them to put it [private] in the subject instead (it will work
vwpn> for the sent folders)
vwpn> Regards,
vwpn> Mathieu CHATEAU
vwpn> http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
vwpn> Sunday, August 27, 2006, 10:26:59 PM, you wrote:
vwpn> Thanks Mathieu, nice.
vwpn> Does this create a folder in the root of the mailbox?
vwpn>
vwpn> Access all mailboxes you say, that sounds logical. I know that
vwpn> domain admins indeed dont actually have the full mailbox access (they
vwpn> have some denies).
vwpn> What if a user already has the folder, does this script take this into
vwpn> account?
vwpn> Again thanks.
vwpn> Victor
vwpn> From: Mathieu CHATEAU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
vwpn> Sent: zondag 27 augustus 2006 22:04
vwpn> To: Victor W.
vwpn> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vwpn> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Add folder with quota to existing
vwpn> mailboxes - via scripting or tool
vwpn> Hello Victor,
vwpn> you will at least need an account that can access all mailboxes (not a
vwpn> domain admins one)
vwpn> (or give a script to everyone that they will execute)
vwpn> To my knowledge, quota is mailbox based. You may set up a special
vwpn> retention on this folder.
vwpn> sample _vbscript_ to create the private folder
vwpn> set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
vwpn> set inbox = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI").getDefaultFolder(6)
vwpn> set temp5 = inbox.folders.add("Private",6)
vwpn> hope it helps,
vwpn> Regards,
vwpn>
vwpn> Mathieu CHATEAU
vwpn> http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
vwpn> Sunday, August 27, 2006, 8:57:03 PM, you wrote:
vwpn> Does anybody know what is the 'best' way to add
vwpn> automatically a folder to existing mailboxes and set a quota on that
vwpn> same folder?
vwpn> We would like all our users to get a folder called
vwpn> "private" added to the root of their mailbox and if possible, a quota
vwpn> to be set to that folder.
vwpn> Can this be done by scripting easily or is there perhaps
vwpn> even a tool which is capable of doing this?
vwpn> This also counts for new, still to be created users. I mean, every user
vwpn> that will be created will have to have that certain folder added to his
vwpn> or her mailbox.
vwpn> Offcourse this could be done by running the script a
vwpn> couple of times a day, checking if the folder exists allready and
vwpn> if not, adding it. Or perhaps it can even by realised the
vwpn> moment a user has been created.
vwpn>
vwpn> Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
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