Enable-App

Reference

Module:: ExchangePowerShell

Applies to:: Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Online

This cmdlet is available in on-premises Exchange and in the cloud-based service. Some parameters and settings may be exclusive to one environment or the other.

Use the Enable-App cmdlet to enable (turn on) a specific app for a specific user.

For information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Exchange cmdlet syntax.

Syntax

Enable-App
      [-Identity] <AppIdParameter>
      [-Confirm]
      [-DomainController <Fqdn>]
      [-Mailbox <MailboxIdParameter>]
      [-WhatIf]
      [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The Enable-App cmdlet requires that the specified app has already been installed (for example, that it has been installed with the New-App cmdlet, or that it's a default app for Microsoft Outlook).

For more information, see Manage user access to add-ins for Outlook in Exchange Server and Manage deployment of add-ins in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although this topic lists all parameters for the cmdlet, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To find the permissions required to run any cmdlet or parameter in your organization, see Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet.

Examples

Example 1

Enable-App -Identity 7a774f0c-7a6f-11e0-85ad-07fb4824019b -Mailbox Tony

This example enables the default Bing Maps app installed for user Tony.

Example 2

Enable-App -Identity <GUID for FinanceTestApp> -Mailbox Tony

This example enables the administrator-installed app FinanceTestApp for user Tony.

Example 3

Enable-App -Identity 545d8236-721a-468f-85d8-254eca7cb0da -Mailbox Tony

This example enables the Share to Teams app for user Tony.

Parameters

-Confirm

The Confirm switch specifies whether to show or hide the confirmation prompt. How this switch affects the cmdlet depends on if the cmdlet requires confirmation before proceeding.

Destructive cmdlets (for example, Remove-* cmdlets) have a built-in pause that forces you to acknowledge the command before proceeding. For these cmdlets, you can skip the confirmation prompt by using this exact syntax: -Confirm:$false.
Most other cmdlets (for example, New-* and Set-* cmdlets) don't have a built-in pause. For these cmdlets, specifying the Confirm switch without a value introduces a pause that forces you acknowledge the command before proceeding.

Type:	SwitchParameter
Aliases:	cf
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Online

-DomainController

This parameter is available only in on-premises Exchange.

The DomainController parameter specifies the domain controller that's used by this cmdlet to read data from or write data to Active Directory. You identify the domain controller by its fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, dc01.contoso.com.

Type:	Fqdn
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

-Identity

The Identity parameter specifies the GUID of the app.

Type:	AppIdParameter
Position:	1
Default value:	None
Required:	True
Accept pipeline input:	True
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Online

-Mailbox

The Mailbox parameter specifies the mailbox. You can use any value that uniquely identifies the mailbox. For example:

Name
Alias
Distinguished name (DN)
Canonical DN
Domain\Username
Email address
GUID
LegacyExchangeDN
SamAccountName
User ID or user principal name (UPN)

Type:	MailboxIdParameter
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Online

-WhatIf

The WhatIf switch simulates the actions of the command. You can use this switch to view the changes that would occur without actually applying those changes. You don't need to specify a value with this switch.

Type:	SwitchParameter
Aliases:	wi
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Online

Inputs

Input types

To see the input types that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Input Type field for a cmdlet is blank, the cmdlet doesn't accept input data.

Outputs

Output types

To see the return types, which are also known as output types, that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Output Type field is blank, the cmdlet doesn't return data.

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