Exchange 2007 Full Mailbox Access Rights

With PowerShell becoming more prevalent and in Exchange 2007, unavoidable, it was time for me to start using it for a change. There are many sites on the Internet that have a plethora of great examples and starting points. One I never found for Exchange that I finally did a trial and error on was how to give a user Full Mailbox Access to all mailboxes in the organization. As with PowerShell, one liners are great (for those who are new to PowerShell, a one liner is a single line of code that accomplishes many things). My one liner for Full Mailbox Access is below:

Get-Mailbox ¦ Add-MailboxPermission -AccessRights FullAccess -user 'user principle name'

In the above one-liner, it breaks down like this.

Get-Mailbox - This gets all mailboxes within your Exchange organization

Add-MailboxPermission - The mailbox acquired in the Get-Mailbox is piped to this command. The switches used are easy to follow.
The -AccessRights switch determines what rights you will give the user specified, options for this switch are: FullAccess, SendAs, ExternalAccount, DeleteItem, ReadPermission, ChangePermission, and ChangeOwner.
The -User switch just allows you to specify which user you wish to add the permission for.

This should make is easier for those who are not indoctrinated into Exchange 2007 to regain some measure of normality that you had while managing Exchange 2000/2003 or even 5.5.