I get lots of questions about the Shared Mailbox in Office 365, especially on how it works with the licensing. Does a common shared department mailbox take an Office 365 license ? Shared Mailboxes in Office 365 (Exchange Online), allow a group of users to view and send e-mail from a common mailbox. I will try to describe the details in this blog post. Shared Mailboxes in Office 365 and licensing With Office 365 (Exchange …
The new Office 365 is launched tomorrow on Feb. 27th with an interactive webcast event at 8AM PST / 5PM PST. Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on Wednesday, Feb. 27, as we celebrate the availability of a major new release coming to Office 365 for businesses. Register for the event, read more and see the agenda on the Office 365 blog.
If you need to change the purpose of an existing Exchange Mailbox, for instance changing a User Mailbox to a Shared Mailbox or maybe the other way around, changing a Shared Mailbox to a User Mailbox. Could also be changing to a Room or Equipment. This an relative easy task to change. Make sure your running the Exchange Management Shell or are connected Office 365 (see previous post). Change a mailbox to a Shared Mailbox, …
There can be a good reason for setting certain user accounts to never expire their password. With Office 365, it is also possible to set this for a selected user account or all user accounts within the organization. Still, it is advisable not to set never expire for all accounts. In this blog post I will describe how easy it is to set an user account in Office 365 to never expire it’s password using …
In Office 365 you can create a Shared Mailbox, for several or all people to have access to. In this blog post I will describe how to create a Shared Mailbox using PowerShell. See my previous blog posts about connecting to Office 365 using PowerShell. When the Shared Mailbox has been created, it is important to assign permissions to it. In the following example, we will create a Shared Mailbox for IT Helpdesk. New-Mailbox -Name …