In February this year I wrote about how to disable the automatic mapping of shared mailboxes in Exchange 2010 SP1, using a custom PowerShell script that “wraps” the Add-MailboxPermission command and after execution, removes the attribute in Active Directory that is used to automatically mount the mailbox in Outlook. With Exchange 2010 SP2 and SP3,…
Update – 8th December 2011 Service Pack 2 and above brings this functionality natively into Exchange Powershell and you no longer need this script if you are on Exchange Server 2010, SP2 allows you to specify that you don’t want auto-mapping enable directly from the native Add-MailboxPermission command, using the -AutoMapping parameter: 1Add-MailboxPermission "Shared Mailbox"…
Update: You’ll see Ben Schorr (MVP) has commented that this update is causing problems for some users. A description of the problem is here. Update 2: Having rolled this update to a large number of users and seen no issues in a corporate environment, it seems issues with this update are limited to Outlook when…
If you’ve read the Exchange Team Blog’s announcement for SP1 you may have noticed one of the new features mentioned that isn’t so widely publicised: “On the client side features like auto mapping of shared mailboxes to user’s Outlook 2010 profiles will remove a support headache.” As it’s one of my favourite new features and…