Assign a Mailbox Plan to User Accounts

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

When a mailbox is created in a tenant organization, it’s assigned the default mailbox plan associated with that tenant's service plan. After the mailbox is created, you may need to change the mailbox plan for different members of an organization.

Looking for other management tasks related to managing tenant organizations? Check out Managing Tenant Organizations.

Prerequisites

Before you can change a user's mailbox plan, the mailbox plan must exist in the organization's assigned service plan. For more information, see Understanding Service Plans and Mailbox Plans.

Use the Shell to assign a mailbox plan to several user accounts using the Filter parameter

To perform this procedure, Exchange must be running in multi-tenant mode. For details, see Understanding Exchange 2010 Multi-Tenancy.

Note:
You can’t use the EMC to assign a mailbox plan to several user accounts using the Filter parameter.

This example assumes that the target user accounts all share a unique filterable attribute and that this attribute has the same value. For example, you can use Title, Department, or Custom Attribute1-15. For more information, see Creating Filters in Recipient Commands.

This example filters for all mailboxes in the Contoso organization where the Department attribute contains the text "corporate", and then applies the mailbox plan to the mailboxes that meet the criteria.

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Get-Mailbox -Organization Contoso -Filter {Department -like 'corporate'} \| Set-Mailbox -MailboxPlan Gold

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-Mailbox or Set-Mailbox.

Use the Shell to assign a mailbox plan to several user accounts using a list of specific accounts

To perform this procedure, Exchange must be running in multi-tenant mode. For details, see Understanding Exchange 2010 Multi-Tenancy.

Note:
You can’t use the EMC to assign a mailbox plan to several user accounts using a list of specific accounts.

This example uses the text file C:\Shared Files\Gold.txt to identify the users by their SMTP e-mail addresses, and then applies the mailbox plan to those mailboxes.

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Get-Content "C:\Shared Files\Gold.txt" \| Set-Mailbox -MailboxPlan Gold

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

Use the Shell to assign a mailbox plan to a single user account

To perform this procedure, Exchange must be running in multi-tenant mode. For details, see Understanding Exchange 2010 Multi-Tenancy.

Note:
You can’t use the EMC to assign a mailbox plan to a single user account.

This example assigns a mailbox plan to a single user account.

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Set-Mailbox -Identity ayla@contoso.com -MailboxPlan Gold

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