It sounds like the delay wasn't long enough for some of the mailboxes. From: Heaton, Joe@Wildlife [mailto:joe.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 4:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script?
The error from your script? No, that's long gone. Here's the error from Michael's version, which is the same error I was getting during my testing. I'm cleaning up the .csv right now, based on the results of the script run, which I was able to save. Creating inbox rule for bstewart to redirect to bstew...@ospr.dfg.ca.gov<mailto:bstew...@ospr.dfg.ca.gov> New-InboxRule : Cannot open mailbox /o=DFG/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FY DIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=HQEXCH3/cn=Microsoft System Atten dant. At C:\Users\admjheaton\Desktop\DFG mailbox scripts\Script-Forward-Ospr.ps1:9 ch ar:17 + New-InboxRule <<<< -name "Redirect Mail" -Mailbox $_.LoginName -redirectt o $_.EmailAddress -domainController HQDC1 + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (0:Int32) [New-InboxRule], Mailbox UnavailableException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 2D016B11,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Recipient Tasks.NewInboxRule I'm sure it will work by now, though, it's been a few hours since the first run, creating the boxes. From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 2:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script? Can you post the script and the error? From: Heaton, Joe@Wildlife [mailto:joe.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 4:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script? Status Report: Tried using Rob's script but came up with something about an empty array, so I must not have fully understood about the $MBX? Changed over to Michael's script and all mailboxes are being created, but not all redirect rules are being successful. My thought was to re-run the script with just the redirect rule part later today. I know I'll get errors, but it will be easier, I think, than trying to figure out which accounts got the redirect rule and which didn't. What do you guys think? From: Rob Campbell [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 7:26 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script? $MBX is just an array of the imported .csv file saved in memory. This method is essentially going through the .csv twice - first to create the mailboxes, then again to set the rules. Also note that [-1] in the get-mailbox command. That's looking at the last row in the .csv file, so you need that array saved in memory to get that last array element. Using Michael's foreach loop, you create one mailbox, then wait to create the rules for that mailbox and repeat that loop for each mailbox. This creates all the mailboxes, then goes through a wait-retry-wait loop until it can do a successful get-mailbox on the last mailbox created, and then goes back through the .csv and creates all the rules. From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script? Ok, so Rob's script will sleep for 2 seconds at a time until the Get-Mailbox command is successful, right? What does the $MBX reference? Do I need something in the .csv called that? From: Rob Campbell [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 5:24 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script? Alternatively: $mbxs = Import-Csv \Users.csv Foreach ($MBX in $mbxs){ Enable-Mailbox -Identity $MBX.LoginName -domainController DC1 } 'Waiting for mailbox creation to complete' Do {Sleep 2} Until (Get-Mailbox $mbxs[-1].loginname) Foreach ($MBX in $mbxs){ Write-Output "Creating inbox rule for $($MBX_.LoginName) to redirect to $($MBX.EmailAddress)" New-InboxRule -name "Redirect Mail" -Mailbox $MBX.LoginName -redirectto $MBX.EmailAddress -domainController DC1 } From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:michael@smithconscom<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:13 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Add a pause in a script? If you specify the domainController on each command, it will probably work immediately. For example, assume the local DC is named DC1. I also illustrated a couple of other useful techniques. :) Import-Csv .\Users.csv | Foreach-Object{ Enable-Mailbox -Identity $_.LoginName -domainController DC1 Sleep 5 ### delay for 5 seconds Write-Output "Creating inbox rule for $($_.LoginName) to redirect to $($_.EmailAddress)" New-InboxRule -name "Redirect Mail" -Mailbox $_.LoginName -redirectto $_.EmailAddress -domainController DC1 } From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 12:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Add a pause in a script? I want to create a bunch of mailboxes, then add a redirect rule to them. I have my .csv file with names (LoginName) and addresses to forward to (EmailAddress). Here is the script: Import-Csv .\Users.csv | Foreach-Object{ Enable-Mailbox -Identity $_.LoginName New-InboxRule -name "Redirect Mail" -Mailbox $_.LoginName -redirectto $_.EmailAddress } The mailboxes are created fine, but then I get an error when it tries to create the inbox rule, saying the mailbox doesn't exist. If I wait 5-10 minutes, comment out the Enable-Mailbox line, and run the script again, it works fine, and creates the inbox rule. The one thing it doesn't do at that point is tell me what mailbox it's creating the inbox rule for. Is there a way to have it echo the mailbox, then create the inbox rule, so I can go back and verify that they were all done? As always, thanks for any and all help on this. 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