Category: Updates and Fixes

Configuration

Update to Create-LabUsers Script

My colleague Andreas asked today for some help troubleshooting an issue he’d run into with the Create-LabUsers script failing while using the InflateMailboxes parameter.

The problem ended up being three-fold:

  • I had some pre-populated user names that had spaces in them
  • I hadn’t trimmed the spaces out when constructing the SMTP address (although I had for the UPN)
  • I didn’t test for a valid RFC sender address when constructing the mail

So, all of those things together conspired to generate errors whenever some of those user names were hit. … [ Continue reading ]

Configuration

Update to OneDrive for Business Admin tool

Based on some user feedback, I’ve made the following modifications to the OneDrive for Business Admin Tool:

  • Fixed a reference to the original function name for FolderToDelete
  • Added verbiage referencing the -Confirm parameter when using FolderToDelete parameter
  • Tidied up code indentations to make it more readable

I’ve got some additional feedback that I will incorporate as well (once I figure out how to do it).… [ Continue reading ]

Information

Update to Get-UserHoldPolicies — Now includes DelayHoldApplied

This is just a quick update–if you’ve been using my Get-UserHoldPolicies script to check out the holds applied to your mailboxes, I’ve updated it to include the DelayHoldApplied property.

A Delay Hold is applied whenever a hold is removed from a mailbox (as in, the mailbox is excluded from an inherited policy or manually removed from an explicitly included policy), and stays in effect for 30 days. … [ Continue reading ]

Identity

Update to the Remove-ProxyAddresses Script

This update comes from a user–it’s a pretty simple one.

I posted the script Remove-ProxyAddresses back in 2017 after writing a blog post on the same topic.  In my script, I had covered Mailboxes, MailUsers, and Contacts.  I did not, however, include RemoteMailboxes, as my original thinking was “if you moved it there, you already got rid of the bad proxies.”

Which, didn’t turn out to be necessarily true (especially if you used my other way of removing proxy addresses via AAD Connect). … [ Continue reading ]

Information

Update to the Get-UserHoldPolicies Tool

A new year, a new update for Get-UserHoldPolicies!  Woo!

I stumbled across some additional information today regarding deciphering hold policies for mailboxes while troubleshooting another issue and decided to update my Get-UserHoldPolicies tool to reflect it.

The core pieces that I added:

  • Identifying Skype policies (as prefaced by sky in the InPlaceHolds property of a mailbox)
  • Identifying excluded mailbox policies (as prefaced by -mbx in the InPlaceHolds property of a mailbox)
  • Disposition action for items at the end of a retention period:
    • Delete only
    • Do nothing after retention period
    • Delete after retention period

You can see a few of the new options here. … [ Continue reading ]