Office 365

How to change the Recipient Type of a Mailbox in Exchange or Office 365

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, …

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How to configure Send As Permission to a User in Office 365

If you need to give Send As Permissions to a User in Office 365, it can be done using a few simple commands in Exchange Online PowerShell. Send As permission is used when you need to give a user permission to use another recipient’s email address in the From address. First connect to your Office 365 tenant, using Windows PowerShell. To connect to Exchange Online, just start a PowerShell session and type in following commands: …

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Office 365 Jump Start Training videos available

Last year I did a blog post about the 3 day Office 365 Jump Start Training, that Microsoft held online at the time. The entire training course “Microsoft Office 365 for IT Professionals Jump Start” has since then, been made available in HD-quality video recordings for free on TechNet Edge and on the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA), where there is an assessment after each session. The 15 sessions (1 hour each) is divided into three …

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How to connect to Office 365 with PowerShell

As an Administrator for Office 365, you can use PowerShell to manage a lot of your administrative tasks such as user management and domain management. The following is needed: MS Online Services Assistant needs to be downloaded and installed MS Online Module for PowerShell needs to be  downloaded and installed Connect to Microsoft Online in PowerShell Download MS Online Services Assistant Download the OS version needed: Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant – 32 bit version …

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How to set the postmaster address in Office 365

By default when Exchange Online in Office 365 is setup for your organization, the postmaster address, e.g. [email protected] is set to [email protected]. This means that when someone sends mail to your organization and gets an NDR back, the sender is: [email protected]. If you want to change this, you can do so using PowerShell for Exchange Online. The procedure for changing this is: 1. Connect to your Exchange online using PowerShell 2. Change addres using command: …

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