Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

You can enable a disabled sharing policy. You can also create a sharing policy in a disabled state, and then enable it when you want the policy to be applied to the recipients provisioned to use the policy. When you enable the sharing policy, users provisioned to use the policy won't be able to share information until the Sharing Policy Assistant runs. To specify how often the Sharing Policy Assistant runs, use the Set-MailboxServer cmdlet with the SharingPolicySchedule parameter.

Looking for other management tasks related to sharing policies? Check out Managing Federated Delegation.

Use the EMC to enable a sharing policy

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

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Mailbox.

  2. In the result pane, click the Sharing Policies tab, and then select the disabled sharing policy that you want to enable.

  3. In the action pane, click Properties.

  4. On the General tab, select the Enable sharing policy check box.

  5. Click Apply to apply the sharing policy.

Use the Shell to enable a sharing policy

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

This example enables the sharing policy Fabrikam.

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Set-SharingPolicy -Identity "Fabrikam" -Enabled $true

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-SharingPolicy.