One of the changes in Exchange 2010 with service pack 1 is that themes are back for end users and admins, this feature was in the beta of Exchange but was removed in the RTM version. For the end user they can choose their theme from the options button as illustrated below.
The amount of themes has grown considerably from the original 4 in Exchange 2007 to 27 available in Exchange 2010
To change the default theme for all users you need to use PowerShell but the good news is it is one single line, set-owavirtualdirectory “owa (default web site)” –defaultTheme blue-b
One gotcha I have discovered is that if a user has already applied a theme, the theme applied by the admin globally will not alter their choice. Although this can be combated by denying users changing themes using exchange policies.
Dave
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elaheh sadegh
September 10, 2011 at 5:10 am (UTC 0)
thanks so much
I love PowerShell , it’s easy and fast
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January 4, 2012 at 7:46 am (UTC 0)
[...] I have previously written a couple of blog post on Service pack 1 install and also applying the new themes after installing but this session goes much further and is very demo heavy which in my opinion [...]