In Office 365 & Microsoft Exchange, by default, your resource mailbox won’t show your Meeting Subject. Instead, it replaces this with your organizer’s name. This occurs for privacy reasons, but it’s only the default. Most organizations opt to see meeting subjects instead. Consider the following: A Resource mailbox is configured to AutoAccept in an Microsoft Exchange Server or Office 365 environment. You send a […]
The Outlook Calendar fully integrates with email, contacts, and other features. This integration makes the Calendar component one of the most popular features of Outlook. In this article, we will guide you through the use of the Calendars various functions. In addition, we’ll introduce you to calendar improvements that are specifically targeted to make your […]
Scenario: You wish to see how many remote mailboxes have the correct email domain configured for their remote routing address (TargetAddress). You want to perform a AD PowerShell query for speed. Scriptlet: Get-ADuser -filter {TargetAddress -like “*.mail.onmicrosoft.com”} | Select Name, TargetAddress OR you just want a count: (Get-ADuser -filter {TargetAddress -like “*.mail.onmicrosoft.com”} | Select Name, […]
Scenario: You want to use Get-ADUser to find all Exchange mailboxes in your environment. Scriptlet: Running the following will provide you with the detail: #First, lets store some results into $1 for every mailbox $1 = Get-ADUser -filter {HomeMDB -ne ‘$null’} -Properties MailNickName, HomeMDB, DisplayName| Select MailNickName, HomeMDB, DisplayName #Now its time to play with […]
Scenario: You are going to install the latest CU for Exchange, but you want to check the AD Schema levels to see if they need to be upgraded before the CU install Command Line: Using CMD line, run the following: (Everything in bold needs to be edited to reflect your Exchange organization OR your domain) […]
Create distribution list with no members. Emails sent to this DL will go into blackhole and won’t NDR. Exchange silently deletes them.
Scenario: Import pst into a mailbox Note: Must have mailbox export/import permissions to be able to do this. targetrootfolder is good if you are importing multiple psts into the mailbox. This way content is not merged under existing folders. From Powershell, type: New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox newmbox -filepath \serverpstfilesnewmbox.pst-BadItemLimit 50 -T argetRootFolder “Mailbox -newmbox”
Scenario: When you are trying to remove an Exchange Database, you receive the following error below. This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>. To get a list […]