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Add Permissions for Client Users to Access Public Folder Content

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

When adding client permissions, you can either use predefined permission roles (which consist of specific access rights) or you can customize permissions by manually applying the available access rights. To specify the permissions for the client user, you can use the Add-PublicFolderClientPermission cmdlet or the AddUsersToPFRecursive.ps1 user management script.

Looking for other management tasks related to public folder permissions? Check out Managing Public Folder Permissions.

Note

If a client user already has a specific access right to a public folder, you can't add the same access right again. Therefore, if you use the AddUsersToPFRecursive.ps1 script, and the user already has one of the access rights that you're trying to grant, a warning will appear stating that the current access rights will be removed before new access rights are granted.

Use the Shell to add public folder permissions for a client user

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Public folder client permissions" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

Note

You can't use the EMC to add public folder permissions for a client user.

This example adds Publishing Editor permissions for the user Kim to access the public folder West Coast.

Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\Marketing\West Coast" -AccessRights PublishingEditor -User Kim

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Add-PublicFolderClientPermission.

Use the AddUsersToPFRecursive.ps1 script to add client access rights to a public folder

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Public folder client permissions" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

This example adds Reviewer permissions for the user David to access the top-level public folder Sales and all of the public folders under it.

AddUsersToPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder "\Sales" -User "David" -Permission Reviewer

For more information about how to use public folder management scripts, see Scripts for Managing Public Folders in the Exchange Management Shell.