What’s the difference between a contact folder, a contact group, a distribution group, an Office 365 Group, and a Microsoft Team? Note: The Outlook interface changes almost daily. For example, the full ribbon is now being replaced with a compact Navigation bar. Fortunately, the concepts should remain constant for at least a week. Outlook Contact Folders An Outlook Contact Folder is a container for organizing […]
Many things in Exchange and Office 365 take too long to do via the admin console, but are too obscure to do routinely via PowerShell. Unless, that is, you have a script! This function will add a single sender address to your spam policy’s BlockedSenders attribute or a sender domain to the BlockedSenderDomains attribute. (If you find any errors in the code below, let me […]
If you use PowerShell to manage both on-prem and cloud Exchange resources, you can manage both in the same console by adding a prefix to the cmdlets of one or the other. It’s easier to add the prefix for Exchange Online cmdlets, so I’ll show you that. Simply copy and paste this code into the on-prem Exchange Management Shell to connect to Exchange Online and prefix the […]
If you submit a message trace with a custom date via the Exchange Online admin center, you’ll see this message: From there, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours for your search results to be ready. Or… You can pop over to PowerShell and, after connecting to Exchange Online, run your trace like this: Get-MessageTrace -StartDate 3/22/2017 -EndDate 4/3/2017 -RecipientAddress email@address.com […]
This PowerShell script will give you a report of all of your Office 365 mailbox users who haven’t logged in for any given number of days. Once you’ve saved the script to a .ps1 file on your workstation or server, you can run it with just the script name or you can include the number of days inactive as a command-line option. the command-line option is especially […]
If you… 1. Have Office 2007 or 2010 installed on your computer and 2. Then install Office 365 and 3. Then uninstall the old version of Office… You will probably discover that when you double-click on an Excel workbook (.xlsx, etc.) from within Windows Explorer, that Excel opens, but the spreadsheet doesn’t. You have to open the workbook from within the Excel application. Fortunately, there’s […]
After migrating our organization from Lync 2010 on-premises to Skype for Business Online, I had one user who couldn’t log in no matter what I tried. She had Skype enabled in her msols license, her account was enabled, everything appeared to have synced ok, and she could log into http://outlook.office.com. The error message said “The user name, password, or domain appears to be incorrect. Ensure […]