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What’s New for Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies in Exchange Server 2007 SP1?

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 is coming soon to a server near you. As you've read here before, there are a lot of new mobility features coming in Service Pack 1 and I hope I can provide you with some of the juicy details you've been waiting for.
Note As wonderful as these new features are, currently we do not know of any mobile phones that currently support them. We're pretty sure that eventually, you'll be able to get a device that supports them, but for now, just keep watching this blog for updates.
Here's some of what you can look forward to.
Default Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies
Exchange 2007 shipped with a wide variety of Exchange ActiveSync mailbox policy settings. You could enforce a password, require that password be a certain length, prohibit the downloading of attachments, prevent users from reusing past passwords, and specify whether users could access information stored in Windows SharePoint Services document libraries. However, all of these policy settings don't do much good unless you assign your users to a policy. In Exchange 2007 RTM, all users had to be explicitly assigned to a policy. You could do this one at a time, or use an Exchange PowerShell one-liner to do it for you. In case you were wondering, here's the PowerShell cmdlet to assign all existing users to a policy.

Get-Mailbox | Set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy (Get-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy "Sales Policy").Identity

That's really pretty simple, but wouldn't you like it to be even easier? Well, now it is. Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 allows Administrators to designate an existing policy

A lot of scripts

I'm a big fan of the Hey, Scripting Guy! column. Those guys have just compiled all the scripts from the first three years in one fully-searchable archive. Hint: search for the word "exchange" and you'll find very useful scripts. The Hey, Scripting Guy! Archive: Volume 2 (August 2004 – September 2007) – The first three years of the Hey, Scripting Guy! column (give or take a month) gathered together in one fully-searchable archive. This HTML help file includes all the text, graphics, and hyperlinks for well over 800 Hey, Scripting Guy! columns.   By the same time, the guys from Sesame Script also had the same idea, so if you're in for scripting go ahead and download the Sesame Script, 2005-2007. The complete collection of Sesame Script, the beginning scripting column published each month in the TechNet Script Center. All the columns published in the past two years (through the September, 2007 edition) have been collected in a fully-searchable help file, with individual topics arranged by category. del.icio.us : script, jscript, vbscript, powershell Technorati : script, jscript, vbscript, powershell

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