Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Script: Change-MailboxType available for download

Change-MailboxType.ps1 is a simple script for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013, that makes it easier to change a regular Mailbox RecipientType to either a Room, Equipment or Shared Mailbox vice versa. The script display a small menu with options. No need to remember PowerShell parameters. It is made so it is easy to use, for certain people in helpdesk so they quickly can change a regular Mailbox to a Room or Equipment or Shared Mailbox, …

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Office 365 Summit – Copenhagen

Microsoft just announced a series of Office 365 Summit events around the world and one of them is located in my neighborhood, Copenhagen, Denmark. What is the Office 365 Summit: The Office 365 Summits are a series of limited invitation 3 day workshops for Microsoft’s most valued customers and partners providing deep-dive readiness on all productivity workloads from Microsoft product experts.   Office 365 Summit Denmark will feature content across Office 365, Developer, Exchange, Lync, Project, …

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See you at MEC 2014

There is only one month (March 31 – April 2) till Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in Austin, Texas. I will be attending the conference and is looking forward to this great Exchange event and catching up with everyone in the community, both MCMs and MVPs. Microsoft has announced over 100+ sessions at MEC and if you are interested, there should still be tickets available – go register at iammec.com If you are attending and want …

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Office 365 – Switch to a different plan or subscription

A few week ago, just before Christmas (2013). Microsoft added a new feature to Office 365. So that we can now change our Office 365 plan or subscription. This was actually announced back in August. This is great news, since before this, if we bought a Small Business or Medium Business Plan, we were locked to this Plan. Now we can “upgrade” the Plan to e.g. Enterprise Plan is needed and thereby easier grow within …

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Campus Days 2013 – PowerPoint slides

Last week I presented at the Campus Days 2013, the biggest IT Pro event in Denmark. Microsoft Campus Days is one of the many great events where you will meet some of the most skilled IT Professionals from customers and partners in Denmark, sharing their best practices and get opportunity for interactions with peers. This year I gave two sessions on Exchange 2013, below you will find the link to channel9, where recordings of each …

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