Hello All, This is very urgent from my client. Is there any way to disable the pop3 for newly creating mailbox user in exchange 2007? I do not prefer to disable the pop3 service itself, just want to be disabled for new mailboxes. your thoughts would be helpful. Thanks & Regards, Kottees R

yes, this is possible. please run this command for all new created accounts: Set-CASMailbox -Identity <alias> -POPEnabled $falseregards Thomas Paetzold visit my blog on: http://sus42.wordpress.com

Hello Thomas, Thanks for the reply, But this can be done after creating the mailbox. I just wanted to be disabled by default while creating.Thanks & Regards, Kottees R

There is no option during the provisioning of the account. Your only option is to run a scheduld ps job to run daily for example to disable.James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Thanks for the info James. Have a great day to both of you:)Kottees, If a post is helpful, please take a second to hit the green arrow on the left, or mark as answer thanks.

Hi, if you create a new mail enabled user why not using a script with this commands: $user=create-mailbox ... set-CASMailbox -identity $user -POPEnabled $false regards Thomas Paetzold visit my blog on: http://sus42.wordpress.com

Hi, thanks again, yeah we can use that too.. but preference would be EMC.. even I read few articles saying that this is not possible by default.. they were given like creating custom attribute and use filter to differentiate pop enabled and disabled users.. Thanks & Regards, Kottees R

Hi, If you want to disable pop3 function for all the users(including new user) you can disable Microsoft Exchange POP3 services. Set-service msExchangePOP3 -startuptype disabled Stop-service -service msExchangePOP3 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124934.aspxPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.