Manage Office 365 Licenses AD Group
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Since a few days, Microsoft finally allow us to manage the Office 365 licenses affectation with AD group. There are some prerequisites, but none of them are show stopper. Continue reading
Connect Office 365 Services PowerShell
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Office 365 is in constant update and evolution, and so are its management and administration services. There is a lot of PowerShell ways, modules, session and prerequisites that you can use. Continue reading
Check Global Address List Compliance PowerShell
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When migrating to Office 365 from various exotic messaging system, you usually hit the fact that Active Directory isn’t a reflect of the situation. Especially when you’re looking at the attributes that are used for building the global address list for Exchange Online and Skype Online. Continue reading
Create Custom MMC Toolbox
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We’re all used to use Microsoft Management Console (MMC) for Active Directory, WSUS, Disk Management, or any other Microsoft product. You can also use MMC to create a toolbox for your operators or helpdesk staff to ease their job and increase their productivity. Continue reading
Import PST Office 365 PowerShell
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Microsoft allows you to import PST files into your Exchange Online mailboxes with “Import Service”. This service is currently under public preview but it was very stable when I tested it. Continue reading
Meeting Request Exchange Web Services PowerShell
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We previously saw how to send an email with Exchange Web Services, now we’ll see how to send a meeting request with EWS and PowerShell.
I’m not aware of another way to create meeting request in PowerShell, so, this is not a pure learning experience now. Continue reading
Send email Exchange Web Services PowerShell
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Since PowerShell version 1 there is a way to send mail with it. In v1, this was not strait forward, you needed to create a SMTP object from .net, and then use it to send an email based on an MailMessage object. In v2, you get the Send-MailMessage cmdlet. Those two methods use an SMTP server, there is a third one, with Exchange Web Services. There isn’t a real benefit for using those beside learn how to use EWS for doing greater things. Indeed, you can do a lot more with EWS than just send mail. Continue reading
Office 365 License Option PowerShell
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Office 365 Licensing is divided in SKU, each SKU has Service Plan. They differ for each SKU. You can add an SKU to a user, without allowing access to all service plan, you can choose one by one the ones you want to enable for a given user. Continue reading
Find Mail Domain Used Exchange
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All Exchange and Skype addresses for each user are stored in Active Directory. All those information are stored in the “ProxyAddresses” attribute. This is a multi-valued attribute with one address per line. Continue reading
Measure Office 365 Usage
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If like a lot of companies you migrated over Office 365, you may want to check if you did the right thing. You can have an hint by measuring your usage in some Office 365 services. Continue reading