Inherit and List Users Folder from Mailbox in Office 365 with Powershell

Question

Hello Together

I have a problem listing folders from a user's mailbox. It seems as if the shell doesn't show me all the folders, even though I can verify that the folders exist using full access.

The origin of the activity is that I have to give a user permissions to a folder and subfolders. Unfortunately the folder has subfolders and subfolders and subfolders.

Normaly a user has "inbox" and there he has the option to create new folders.

This user has made new folders above "Inbox".

Here I have already executed the following commands.

 Get-MailboxFolderStatistics ******@contoso.com -FolderScope NonIPMRoot | ft Name, FolderPath 


Get-MailboxFolderStatistics ******@contoso.com -FolderScope All | ft Name, FolderPath 

Unfortunately I can't find the folder using the following command either. The Results are empty

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics ******@contoso.com | Where { $_.FolderPath.Contains("Posteingang_LOKAL") } | ft Name, FolderPath 

How can i get the folder "Posteingang Lokal" and give user ******@contoso.com access permission to just this one folder over powershell?

Kind Regards

Answer 1

Hi @Roman Dzichel, MP-Datentechnik GmbH,

If the folder name is "Posteingang Lokal", there may be a typo (you have "Posteingang_LOKAL") in this cmdlet:

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics ******@contoso.com | Where { $_.FolderPath.Contains("Posteingang_LOKAL") } | ft Name, FolderPath

If you still cannot get the folder with this cmdlet, please make sure the folder name is correct and try the following script to see if it works for you:

$path = Get-MailboxFolderstatistics -Identity ******@contoso.com | Where {$_.Name -eq "Posteingang Lokal"} | select-object -ExpandProperty FolderPath
$path = $path -replace '/', '\'
$path
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity ******@contoso.com:$($path) -User ******@contoso.com -AccessRights Editor

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Answer 2

Fix support

Answer 3

For Those who will use the code in the Future

$user = "******@contoso.com"
$reviewer = "******@contoso.com"
$path = Get-EXOMailboxFolderStatistics -Identity $user | Where {$_.FolderPath -like "*Posteingang_Lokal/Testordner*"} | select-object -ExpandProperty FolderPath
$path = $path -replace '/', '\'
foreach($folder in $path){
	Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity $($user):$($folder) -User $reviewer -AccessRights Reviewer
}

delete the "XX*"*

and everything will work fine :)

Answer 4

Iam Sorry to Disturb you but the code is not working.
Wheater i get permissions on Root folder nor on subfolders.

Maybe you can take a loook again?

$user = "******@contoso.com"
$reviewer = "******@contoso.com"
$path = Get-EXOMailboxFolderStatistics -Identity $user | Where {$_.FolderPath -like "Posteingang_LOKAL/Regner Klinikum St. Marien Amberg"} | select-object -ExpandProperty FolderPath
$path = $path -replace '/', '\'
foreach($folder in $path){
	Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity $($user):$($folder) -User $reviewer -AccessRights Reviewer 
}

Answer 5

I have also Tried the following script for add the permissions to the folder

Its also not working

$requiredfoldertypes = @("Posteingang_LOKAL\DLR","Posteingang_LOKAL\Eisele Carport Esslingen","Posteingang_LOKAL\Gewürz Mayer","Posteingang_LOKAL\Regner Klinikum St. Marien Amberg ")

$excludedfoldertypes = @()

$accessright = “Reviewer"

$users = @("Kretschmer@contoso") #,"******@contoso.com")

$mbx = Get-EXOMailbox -Identity ******@contoso.com | Select-Object PrimarySmtpAddress

$folderlist  = Get-EXOMailboxFolderStatistics -Identity $mbx.PrimarySmtpAddress | Select-Object Name, FolderPath, FolderType, Identity | ?{($_.FolderType -in $requiredfoldertypes) -and ($_.FolderType -notin $requiredfoldertypes) }

 

#Then we can use either Add-MailboxFolderPermission to assign or Set-MailboxFolderPermission to modify.

foreach($user in $users)

{

    $u = Get-EXOMailbox -Identity $user | Select-Object PrimarySmtpAddress

    foreach($folder in $folderlist)

    {

        if($folder.FolderType -eq "Root") {$foldername = $mbx }

        else {$foldername = $folder.Identity.ToString().Replace([char]63743,"/").Replace($mbx.PrimarySmtpAddress.ToString(),$mbx.PrimarySmtpAddress.ToString() + ":")}

        $foldername

        Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity $foldername -User $u.PrimarySmtpAddress.Tostring() -AccessRights $accessright

        Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity $foldername -User $u.PrimarySmtpAddress.Tostring()

    }

}

Obviously the following command works Perfectly but not recursive ...

$mailbox = "******@contos.com"

$user = "******@comtoso.com"  $foldername = "Posteingang_LOKAL\AMG Erweiterung Vormontage LZM-Marbach"

$folder = (Get-EXOMailboxFolderStatistics -Identity "$($mailbox)" | Where-Object { $_.FolderType -eq "Posteingang_LOKAL" }).Name

Add-MailboxFolderPermission "$($mailbox):$($folder)\$($foldername)" -User "$($user)" -AccessRights "Reviewer" | Select-Object FolderName, User, AccessRights