Microsoft 365 Scripts

Out of Office (OOF) automatic reply messages helps to notify other users who are trying to reach you in Outlook when you are unavailable. For example, say you are on vacation, you can set up an automatic reply in Office 365. This way, other users will know you are unavailable for a while.  Configuring automatic replies is essential to prevent communication lapses between OOF users and their clients. What if a user missed setting up an Out of Office message…

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When a user opens their mailbox for the first time, it will show a prompt to select the time zone and language to get a personalized experience. Also, mailbox users can change their regional settings any time from OWA.  In some situations, Office 365 admins may want to configure language and time zone for users. For example,  When admins want to set pre-defined regional settings.  When mailboxes are set to the wrong language during migration.  When users’ time zone settings…

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Exchange Online offers an excellent feature called Email forwarding. It allows users and admins to configure mailbox forwarding and forward messages automatically to other mailboxes. Although email forwarding is convenient and has some potential advantages in terms of facilitating work, unfortunately, it gives hackers easy access to your data and creates the risk of information leaks.  Then, how can you combat this? Here, it would be better to remove email forwarding in Office 365. With this blog, let’s look at…

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As an Exchange admin, you may get requests from users to increase mailbox size in Office 365 due to the ‘Mailbox size full’ warning. As you know, mailbox storage size is determined by the type of mailbox and the license assigned to them. So, to increase mailbox size, you must assign them a different subscription plan.   Mailbox Storage Limit:   You can refer to the below image to know the storage limit based on the mailbox type and license.  Shared mailboxes…

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After reading a feature request on our ‘how to add bulk users to distribution list’ blog, I have decided to write a script to add a user to bulk distribution lists using PowerShell. This blog will guide you through multiple use cases, such as.   Add a user to bulk distribution groups   Add multiple users to bulk distribution groups   Remove a user from multiple distribution groups   Remove multiple users from several distribution groups.   Get all distribution lists a user is…

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Here is another blog with one of the required use cases of Microsoft 365 admins, ‘Bulk import contacts to Office 365 Global Address List (GAL) using CSV file’.   Contacts are people from inside or outside your organization. External contacts are vendors, customers, contractors, etc., whose email address is an external email address.     When do We need to Import Contacts to Exchange Online?   When the organization has a lot of business contacts that they want to add to the GAL. …

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Recently, I have seen the following queries in Microsoft 365 forums.  Shared mailbox sent items are saved in personal sent items  Shared mailbox sent items are not saved in the shared mailbox sent items folder  So, I thought to provide a solution for this problem through my blog.  Who can Send Messages from a Shared Mailbox?  Shared mailbox delegates can send emails from the shared mailbox based on the permissions delegated, such as ‘send as’ or ‘send on behalf. ‘ …

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With dozens of emails dropping in the mailbox every day, it is hard for a user to handle all those emails. Sometimes, bulk emails may come from a spammy marketing section, or phishing scams, that take up Outlook disk space. So, managing your Office 365 outlook storage space would be complicated and time-consuming. Typically to delete older emails from Outlook is the best strategy to boost the performance, storage, and work efficiency of Outlook.  But how will you manage the…

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