Tag: Exchange Online

Scripting

Update to Wipe Exchange Online Mailbox script

Earlier today, I was asked to make an update to my script to wipe Exchange Online mailboxes to include Archive Mailboxes.  Fortunately, it ended up being much easier than I anticipated:

When I enumerated the mailbox originally, I used:

$Root = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($service, [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WellKnownFolderName]::Root)

In order to access the Archive folder, I just had to change the WellKnownFolderName from Root to ArchiveRoot, after examining the list available at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.exchange.webservices.data.wellknownfoldername(v=exchg.80).aspx.… [ Continue reading ]

Configuration

Manage Office 365 Distribution Groups via Excel spreadsheet or CSV

A consultant friend of mine posed an interesting question to me this week–one of his customers wanted to be able to let his users administer a cloud-managed Office 365 distribution group by uploading a CSV or Excel spreadsheet.  From an administration perspective, I have done an incredible amount of directory management tasks using CSVs, so this didn’t seem like that difficult of a task.… [ Continue reading ]

Migrating

Migrating Hybrid Public Folders to Office 365

Update: Shameless plug: I’ve written more extensively about public folder migrations from both the 2007/2010 and 2013/2016 perspectives in the book, “Office 365 Administration: Inside Out,” available at http://aka.ms/thebookonit.

So, tonight I started the last phase of one of my longest-running projects since joining Microsoft–an Exchange Online migration for a school district that I began nearly a year and a half ago. … [ Continue reading ]

Migrating

Troubleshooting Mailbox Migration Error “You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization.”

While migrating users via MRS between organizations (especially to Exchange Online), a pretty common error that I run across is:

You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization.

This error is generated because the MailUser object of the user you’re attempting to migrate has a proxy address attached to it that is NOT an accepted domain in your target organization or tenant.… [ Continue reading ]

Configuration

Export and Import Calendar Processing Information

During my current project, it became necessary to capture additional calendar processing parameters that are not preserved during a normal hybrid move–such as booking policies.

Some of the challenges that I faced with this tool:

  • Blank or unpopulated attributes
  • Conversion of sAMAccountName values to PrimarySmtpAddress
  • Multiline attributes with special characters
  • Attributes that were set for the wrong recipient type

So, the first thoughts I have when building a tool generally involve four concepts: what data do I need to gather/export, what format is the source data, what format do I need to save it in, and how do restore/import that data back into the target?… [ Continue reading ]

Migrating

Fix those IMCEAEX NDRs

I had a customer migrate some mailboxes a few weeks ago, and they’re now just getting some NDRs.  Here’s a sample NDR:

imceaex-1

To fix this, you can take the NDR that you receive, copy/paste it into this function, and then take the resultant decoded x500 address and add it back to the proxyAddress array for the recipient.… [ Continue reading ]

Configuration

Updating Remote Recipient Types on-Premises

During migrations from third-party platforms like Gmail or various POP3 providers or from hosted Exchange environments, we frequently see customers provisioning remote mailboxes for shared resources.

This works fine for three out of four recipient types. You can run New-RemoteMailbox for a regular user or specify a Type (Room or Equipment) to get the appropriate mailboxes. … [ Continue reading ]