Exchange Online PowerShell Throttling in Office 365

If you do any kind of heavy work with Exchange Online in PowerShell you’ve probably come across throttling. This is applied at the Exchange Server level and restricts the amount of resources you can consume in the Office 365 environment. Whilst they’re annoying and make our life miserable, we can understand why they are in […]

Many businesses require a shared calendar that is accessible by all users, perhaps to create an on-call roster or similar type of group schedule. This process can be automated using our Office 365 Management tool, but in this article, we will create a Shared calendar in an Office 365 tenant that will be accessible by […]

Office 365 now includes some rudimentary reports, including one that tells you how many Inactive mailboxes you have in your tenant. A mailbox is considered inactive by Microsoft if a user has not logged in for more than 30 days. As you can see in the chart above, there are 23 mailboxes in my tenant […]

Office 365 now allows you to configure and manage your organisations Anti Spam settings right there in the Office 365 Administration console. This is a big improvement over the older Wave 14 Office 365 which dealt with spam in an entirely different system called FOPE – which most tenants did not get access to. You […]

One of the best things about Office 365 is that it can be accessed and administered from any internet-connected device. Unfortunately, this also means that you can potentially be hacked from any internet-connected device. Here we are going to outline a few basic Best Practices around Microsoft Office 365 Administrator accounts to reduce the chances […]

Sometimes you need to change a users main email address, for example if they get married and change their name. In this scenario, you would want all email they send to originate from the new email address but you would still want them to receive email sent to the old address. So how do you […]

You need to have mailbox auditing enabled before anything you read in this post will work. So now that you have auditing enabled, how do you find out who is accessing other people’s mailboxes? The new version of Office 365 includes a mailbox access by non-owners report for exactly this purpose. These can be found […]

I recently came across a question in the Office 365 Forums asking how one can set the Language and Time Zone for all users in Office 365. For this, we need to use the Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration cmdlet in PowerShell. Once we’ve connected to Office 365 using Powershell, we only need to run one cmdlet. get-mailbox | […]

We were recently asked how to export all email addresses from an Office 365 tenant. This needed to include all email addresses on Contacts, Distribution Groups, User Mailboxes and Shared Mailboxes. If you wanted all of this information at the touch of a finger you should try out our Office 365 reporting software. To do […]

I came across an interesting puzzle over at the Spiceworks Office 365 Forums this weekend. A user was trying to add two shared mailboxes to their Office 365 tenant with the same alias. For example: shared_mailbox@domain1.com shared_mailbox@domain2.com Trying to create a Shared Mailbox in the normal way resulted in an error. I tried to do […]