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To view disconnected mailbox’s, essentially mailboxes that have been deleted from their user accounts, you need to first ensure that Exchange has gone through and cleaned the database. This is done to ensure that it marks that mailbox as deleted. If your database is MDB36, run the following command: Clean-MailboxDatabase MDB36 Exchange gives no result from the command. But now […]
Read moreIf you have a public folder that your working on, and you need to apply permissions to it using the Exchange Management Shell, its pretty easy. The command is: Add-PublicFolderClientPermission –Identity “Foldername” –user UserName –AccessRights PublishingEditor For instance, to add the user pponzeka to the folder IT with the Publishing Editor permission, the command would be the following: This works […]
Read moreCreate an csv file with the necessary information across the top row of the file as such: The top row is going to coordinate with the S_.value that you are going to use in the following Exchange Shell command: Import-CSV “C:Mailboxes.csv” | foreach {new-mailbox –Name $_.name –Alias $_.alias –UserPrincipalName $_.userprincipalname –Database $_.Database –OrganizationalUnit $_.organizationalunit –password (ConvertTo-SecureString $_.password –AsPlainText –force)} And […]
Read moreOpen EMS Run: Search-Mailbox –identity username –SearchQuery kind:meetings –DeleteContent You can get an estimate about the number of entries and size that will be freed up after deletion by running: Search-Mailbox –identity username –SearchQuery kind:meetings –EstimateResultOnly Example: Search-Mailbox –identity mmcguire –SearchQuery kind:meetings –DeleteContent
Read moreYou can use EMC for this or use powershell to view the status of a user acct’s O365 migration progress get-user -identity username | get-moverequeststatistics
Read moreIf you run into an issue where a user has both a mailbox in Exchange on-premise and O365, and you cannot migrate the account to O365. Error: “Target user already has a primary mailbox” FIX: Remove the O365 account and then do a full DirSync. Once done, migrate the on-prem mailbox to O365. Open PowerShell in Connect-MSOLService -Credential $adminCredential (enter […]
Read moreIf you have the need to remove a specific calendar event/appointment from a mailbox, you can do it through Power Shell or Exchange Management Shell. Open PowerShell or EMS If this is an O365 mailbox, you will need to connect to the O365 environment Connect to Exchange On-line From the PowerShell console on an Exchange 2010 server: $Cred = […]
Read more1. Connect to Exchange On-line From the PowerShell console on an Exchange 2010 server: $Cred = Get-Credential $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $s Run this command in Powershell Search-Mailbox -identity “User Mailbox” -SearchQuery “From:user@domain.com” -deletecontent
Read more1. Connect to Exchange On-line From the PowerShell console on an Exchange 2010 server: $Cred = Get-Credential $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $s Type in your ada credentials with username of <username>@domain.com Type in your ada credentials with username of domain\<username> Run this command: you will need the distribution group name […]
Read moreRun this from EMS on Exchange 2010 on-prem server: Enable-RemoteMailbox -Identity “pamela cornell” -RemoteRoutingAddress pcornell@lifetouch.mail.onmicrosoft.com Example:
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