Is there any non-Quest powershell commands (perhaps using Exchange PowerShell so I don't have to install something else just to do this) so I can reset a password on an Exchange 2007 mailbox? I'm fairly new to AD and Exchange. The user who normally accesses the mailbox forgot the password. I need to reset it, but would prefer to resolve the problem permanently. However, nothing that I've found published, from Technet or anywhere else, seems to work. I would like to ideally give the user(s) Send As permissions, but it seems AD is having none of that. I've used ADSIEdit to set our administrative group to inherit permissions in SDAdminHolder object, then made sure any users I granted Send As were a member of that group. Then I granted them Send As. 15 minutes later, the Send As permissions were gone. At this point, I'm really looking for the simplest way to reset the password so we can get her into the mailbox and reply via OWA/webmail. Ideas on how to reset the mailbox password so I can access it? I can access the mailbox in Outlook logged in as myself and even send when in that group. However, it gets wiped out 15 minutes or so later. I'd love to have a complete, end-all-be-all solution, but haven't found one yet. Suggestions? Thanks, C.

Well your Exchange Password is your AD password so you can update that password in ADU&C. Depending on your domain's functional level you can also reset it through the powershell, but you'll need to be up to 2008 forest/domain. In terms of send as permissions you can do it in the EMC or powershell. EMC: - Open up the EMC and click 'Recipient Configuration' - Select the mailbox you want to configure the 'Send As' permission for - in the action pain click 'Manage Send Permission' - On the page click Add - Select the user or group you want to grant Send As rights to and click OK From the Shell: Add-AdPermission "Mailbox" -User "Domain\User" -Extendedrights "Send As" Obviously changing "Mailbox" to the users mailbox name and "Domain\User" to the person you want to give rights to. Thanks, JorgeJorge R. Diaz PMP, CCNA, MCSE, MCSA Sr. Microsoft Consultant Planet Technologies, Inc.

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On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:34:17 +0000, cdubya88 wrote: > > >Is there any non-Quest powershell commands (perhaps using Exchange PowerShell so I don't have to install something else just to do this) so I can reset a password on an Exchange 2007 mailbox? > >I'm fairly new to AD and Exchange. The user who normally accesses the mailbox forgot the password. I need to reset it, but would prefer to resolve the problem permanently. It's not an Exchange problem. Use the ADUC snap-in to reset the password, just as you've always done. >However, nothing that I've found published, from Technet or anywhere else, seems to work. > >I would like to ideally give the user(s) Send As permissions, but it seems AD is having none of that. Especially if they're members of priviledged groups. :-) >I've used ADSIEdit to set our administrative group to inherit permissions in SDAdminHolder object, then made sure any users I granted Send As were a member of that group. Then I granted them Send As. Oh . . . my . . . gawd. >15 minutes later, the Send As permissions were gone. > >At this point, I'm really looking for the simplest way to reset the password so we can get her into the mailbox and reply via OWA/webmail. Start | Run | dsa.msc | Enter If you don't have the AD administrative tools installed on that machine, move to one that does. >Ideas on how to reset the mailbox password so I can access it? I can access the mailbox in Outlook logged in as myself and even send when in that group. However, it gets wiped out 15 minutes or so later. > >I'd love to have a complete, end-all-be-all solution, but haven't found one yet. > >Suggestions? The first thing you want NOT to do is to be using an administrator (or any priviledged) account for normal, day-to-day, activity. It's easy enough to use "runas" or RDP to another machine and log on using that "administrative" account. It's a lot safer, too. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP