Managing user access to public folders

Now that we have a public folder structure, we realize that the default permissions aren't appropriate. So we want to change them a little bit.

First, we don't want end users to create items in folders they shouldn't have access to. The Default user is given author permissions, which means that they can read and create items in that folder. A full permission list can be found in this section.

In this recipe, we will start by changing the permissions for the Default user, and later on, we will configure some security groups with public folder permissions.

How to do it...

The following commands remove the permissions for the Default user and add new permissions:

Get-PublicFolder –Recurse | Get-PublicFolderClientPermission
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | % { `
Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission $_ -User Default}
Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | % { `
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission $_ -User testuser -AccessRights Reviewer}

How it works...

Our mission with this recipe...