Modify Deprovision Task for Exchange

Question

I'm trying to come up with an additional Exchange 2010 task (part of deprovisioning) that will preserve all of the existing email addresses of a given user, but simply prefix them with the word "disabled." The reason is so that we can stop email flow at the moment of deprovisioning, but in case we need to repurpose any of the multiple proxy addresses, we'll know exactly what they were.

For example, Bob User has the following proxy addresses:
bob.user@company1.com
buser@company5.com
b.user@company6.com

So, by convention, those addresses get changed to the following:
disabled.bob.user@company1.com
disabled.buser@company5.com
disabled.b.user@company6.com

This would save us a lot of time.

Answer 1

Hello,

This can be done with PowerShell scripts. For example, you can extend the Custom Command that you use for deprovisioning with the Run a program or PowerShell script action containing a script that changes the e-mail addresses. To add such an action:

1. Launch Adaxes Administration Console.

2. In the Console Tree, navigate to and select the Custom Command that you use for deprovisioning.

3. Select the set of actions and conditions that you would like to add the action to.

4. Click the Add Action button.
   

5. Select he Run a program or PowerShell script action and paste the following script in the Script field.
   

    $mailboxParams = $Context.TargetObject.GetMailParameters()
   
    $mailboxParams.EmailAddressPolicyEnabled = $False
    $emailAddresses = $mailboxParams.EmailAddresses
    for ($i = 0; $i -lt $emailAddresses.Count; $i++)
    {
        $emailAddress = $emailAddresses.GetAddress($i,[ref]"ADS_PROPERTY_NONE")
        $emailAddress.Address = "disabled." + $emailAddress.Address
    }
   
    $mailboxParams.EmailAddresses = $emailAddresses
    $Context.TargetObject.SetMailParameters($mailboxParams, "ADM_SET_EXCHANGE_PARAMS_FLAGS_NONE")

Comments

Excellent! The script works as expected.

Thank you very much!