Create a Custom root Folder in all the Mailboxes (Bulk) in Exchange 2010

Download Script –

CustomRootFolder.ps1

Refer the below link for the original script , and Customized it a little

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akashb/archive/2011/07/23/creating-folder-using-ews-managed-api-1-1-from-powershell.aspx

And Please Test in your lab – Before proceeding into your live Environment

There is a a good script where we can use to create a Custom root Folder in all the Mailboxes in your environment.

Were we can create Custom Folders Like below for single mailbox and for all the mailboxes in Bulk

Prerequisites –

Download and Install in your Server

Exchange Web Services Managed API

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13480

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Add the User to the “ApplicationImpersonation” Role assignment

New-managementroleassignment –Role “ApplicationImpersonation” –user administrator

Now you can go ahead and use the script—

Please Try for the One Mailbox – And Please Test in your lab – Before proceeding into your live Environment


[string]$info = &amp;quot;White&amp;quot;                # Color for informational messages
[string]$warning = &amp;quot;Yellow&amp;quot;            # Color for warning messages
[string]$error = &amp;quot;Red&amp;quot;                 # Color for error messages
[string]$LogFile = &amp;quot;C:\Temp\Log.txt&amp;quot;   # Path of the Log File

function CreateFolder($MailboxName)
{
Write-host &amp;quot;Creating Folder for Mailbox Name:&amp;quot; $MailboxName -foregroundcolor  $info
Add-Content $LogFile (&amp;quot;Creating Folder for Mailbox Name:&amp;quot; + $MailboxName)

#Change the user to Impersonate
$service.ImpersonatedUserId = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ImpersonatedUserId([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ConnectingIdType]::SmtpAddress,$MailboxName);

#Create the folder object

$oFolder = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder($service)
$oFolder.DisplayName = $FolderName

#Call Save to actually create the folder
$oFolder.Save([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::msgfolderroot)

Write-host &amp;quot;Folder Created for &amp;quot; $MailboxName -foregroundcolor  $warning
Add-Content $LogFile (&amp;quot;Folder Created for &amp;quot; + $MailboxName)

$service.ImpersonatedUserId = $null
}

#Change the name of the folder
$FolderName = &amp;quot;Customer Folder Name&amp;quot;
Import-Module -Name &amp;quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange\Web Services\1.1\Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll&amp;quot;

$service = New-Object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeVersion]::Exchange2010_SP1)

# Set the Credentials
$service.Credentials = new-object Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WebCredentials(&amp;quot;Administrator&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Type your Password Here&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;careexchange.in&amp;quot;)

# Change the URL to point to your cas server
$service.Url= new-object Uri(&amp;quot;https://localhost/EWS/Exchange.asmx&amp;quot;)

# Set $UseAutoDiscover to $true if you want to use AutoDiscover else it will use the URL set above
$UseAutoDiscover = $false
$a = get-mailbox

$a | foreach-object {
$WindowsEmailAddress = $_.WindowsEmailAddress.ToString()

#if ($UseAutoDiscover -eq $true) {
# Write-host &amp;quot;Autodiscovering..&amp;quot; -foregroundcolor $info
#$UseAutoDiscover = $false
$service.AutodiscoverUrl($WindowsEmailAddress)
#Write-host &amp;quot;Autodiscovering Done!&amp;quot; -foregroundcolor $info
# Write-host &amp;quot;EWS URL set to :&amp;quot; $service.Url -foregroundcolor $info

# }
#To catch the Exceptions generated
# trap [System.Exception]
# {
#    Write-host (&amp;quot;Error: &amp;quot; + $_.Exception.Message) -foregroundcolor $error;
#     Add-Content $LogFile (&amp;quot;Error: &amp;quot; + $_.Exception.Message);
#     continue;
# }
CreateFolder($WindowsEmailAddress)
}

Do the Edits Required in the Script —

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msgfolderroot denotes the Root of the Mailbox , If you specify inbox for example it creates the folder below the inbox

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Change your

User name – Password – Domain Name –

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$a = get-mailbox denotes all the mailbox

To Run for a single mailbox (use the alias)

$a = get-mailbox “User1”

Save it a Notepad and Rename it to .ps1 file

And Open Power shell locate your powershell into the folder you saved the script

.\create.ps1 for example

Download Script –

CustomRootFolder.ps1

Great !!

You learnt how to create Custom root folders in all the mailboxes

35 COMMENTS

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Sunder November 11, 2012 At 4:11 am

Good One Sathesh..

Slava January 11, 2013 At 2:33 pm

This post was very helpfull. Thank you, Sathesh.

- Satheshwaran Manoharan January 13, 2013 At 10:47 am
  
  Thank you for your comments Slava !
  
Yennifer Ricaurte March 5, 2013 At 7:13 pm

Hello I would like to configure this script so that no user can delete the folder

- Satheshwaran Manoharan March 6, 2013 At 1:43 am
  
  I don’t think a script available for that. You have to use “Managed Folders” to achieve the same
  
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- Satheshwaran Manoharan March 26, 2013 At 9:21 am
  
  Thank you for your comments Shad
  
Alex March 27, 2013 At 10:20 am

Is there a way of scripting this to add a home page by default also?

- Satheshwaran Manoharan April 1, 2013 At 6:31 am
  
  Adding a home page ? where ?
  
  - Charles June 24, 2013 At 3:59 pm
    
    What I need is to add is on the Home Page tab of the folder property our old Public folder OWA location and have the ‘Show home page by default for this folder’ be checked off.
    We have moved to a new domain and will not import the public folders from the old domain to the new one but still want users to be able to access the old Public folders until we have it all moved to Sharepoint.
    
    - Bret October 30, 2013 At 5:32 pm
      
      Charles,
      
      Did you ever get the script to make the folder into a home page?
      
      Thanks,
      
      Bret
      
Stan June 6, 2013 At 2:57 pm

Sathesh,

Great work on the script, it will really serve a good purpose here in my environment. I am running into two error message that maybe you can point me in the right direction on how to correct. “Exception calling “AutodiscoverUrl” with “1” argument(s): “The Autodiscover service couldn’t be located.”” and “Exception calling “Save” with “1” argument(s): “The request failed. The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.””. What rights are required on the mailbox in order to create a root folder?

Thanks for your hard work on this script.

Stan

- Satheshwaran Manoharan June 15, 2013 At 2:04 pm
  
  I just Customized the script.
  
  Make sure autodiscover works and accessible.
  
  Find the author of this script in the below link
  
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/akashb/archive/2011/07/23/creating-folder-using-ews-managed-api-1-1-from-powershell.aspx
  
  Thank you
  
Jason September 3, 2013 At 8:21 pm

This works perfect! Thanks! Is there a way to create a sub-folder within the folder that is created in the same script?

James October 3, 2013 At 3:42 pm

I ran the script after making the edits and it said it was successful but the folder is not showing up in Outlook or in OWA. When I rerun the script it said that a folder with the specified names already exists. Am I missing something?

Thanks for the help. This script is exactly what I need.

Stan February 3, 2014 At 8:47 pm

Thanks for the update.

Two questions.

How can this be modified to create multiple root folders?

Can permissions be set on the folders so the folder itself cannot be deleted?

Manojkumar June 23, 2014 At 10:46 am

Thanks Sir for a post. Can you please guide us to run this code in loop.

I want to create 100 folders in inbox or root.

Tarique noorain October 30, 2014 At 9:02 am

Hi,

I am getting below error while running this script :

Exception calling “Save” with “1” argument(s): “The request failed. The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.”
At C:\Users\exadm\Desktop\createfolder.ps1:20 char:18
+ $oFolder.Save <<<< ([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::msgfolderroot)
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

would you help me , please .

- Satheshwaran Manoharan January 7, 2015 At 4:38 am
  
  After adding Impersonation Permissions. Please close shell and re open it .
  
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How do I create new task folder on outlook using this script.

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Gautam Kumar August 25, 2016 At 11:14 pm

This is very helpful, will this work in Exchange 2013 ? Is there any way to have the emails automatically deleted after a year or so ?

- Satheshwaran Manoharan September 4, 2016 At 6:23 am
  
  Managed Custom Folder is not supported Exchange 2016 above.
  Root folder creation works. New-inbox rule works. to create outlook rules on each mailbox.
  
Chris July 27, 2017 At 7:24 pm

Hello, very nice script. I want to create a subfolder under the contacts folder to sync contacts. Is it possible to change the folder form to contacts?
Best regards,
Chris

Chris July 27, 2017 At 7:27 pm

Hello,
thanks for the nice script. Works perfect to creates IPM.Post folder.
Is it possible to create subfolders for contacts with the folder form IPM.Contact?
Best regards, Chris

Chris July 28, 2017 At 10:19 am

Is it possible to push the folder to an ad group and not to all mailboxes or only one mailbox?

- Satheshwaran Manoharan July 30, 2017 At 6:22 am
  
  Yes via scripting.
  
Abhinav R January 8, 2018 At 3:17 pm

Hello Satheshwaran,

Great work !! Kudos!!

I have one question, how about if we want to automate this process for all new mailbox being created.
I have little idea about Scripting Agent and seems it can allow us to achieve same.
Please share your idea on that.

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