Category: PowerShell 101

Connect to O365 using powershell first   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 = Get-Credential  $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection  Import-PSSession $s    Then run this command in powershell: Search-Mailbox -identity “UsersMailbox” -SearchQuery kind:meetings -DeleteContent   

You will come across the issue with leavers mailboxes needing to be transferred to another users mailbox. If you are looking after on-site exchange, then the process is slightly shorter as you don’t need to connect to the remote Powershell.   To connect to O365 first run this PS command: $Cred = Get-Credential  $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic […]

If you need to add email aliases to O365 accts in bulk use the following (EMS) powershell command with the CSV file formatted this way:   Name ProxyAddresses user1@domainold.com user1@domainnew.com   Run this in EMS: Import-Csv C:\email-aliases.csv | ForEach-Object{ $name = $_.Name }  Import-Csv C:\email-aliases.csv | ForEach-Object{ $proxy = $_.ProxyAddresses -split ‘;’}  Set-RemoteMailbox -Identity $name -EmailAddresses @{add= $proxy}    OR   Get the display name and email […]