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Until recently (Sept 2013), the maximum size limit for Office 365 Shared Mailboxes was 5GB but Microsoft has now increased this limit to 10GB. Many Office 365 users, including ourselves, have set mailbox size limits on our Shared Mailboxes to make sure they stay under the old 5GB limit. PS C:\Users\burns_000\Desktop> get-mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -filter […]

Office 365 users that are newly created during synchronization from an On-Premise Active Directory are not assigned an Office 365 licence by default. We recently came across a customer who wanted all newly created Office 365 to automatically have a licence assigned to them. We came up with a script that they could schedule on […]

One of the most requested features for our Office 365 reporting software is for a report showing how many emails each user has sent and received over a given period. We can use the Get-MessageTrace cmdlet in Exchange Online to search the SMTP message tracking logs in Office 365 and build this report. The script […]

Microsoft have recently released a number of new cmdlets that are available to tenants that have previously been upgraded to Wave 15. A few of these are outlined in one of our previous blogs. The one I want to focus on in this article is the Get-MailTrafficReport cmdlet which is used to view mail traffic information […]

A simple way of identifying what version of Office 365 your tenant is currently on can be achieved through the Powershell console. Simply connect to your Office 365 tenant through remote Powershell. This blog outlines the steps on how to do this if you are unsure. Once connected type the following and hit return. Get-OrganizationConfig | select […]

A simple but yet effective way of extracting a list of users that have Litigation Hold Enabled using Powershell. If you’re using Office 365 and don’t want to mess around with PowerShell check out our Office 365 reporting software. We include a Litigation Hold report out of the box. Read more  Otherwise, run the following […]

One of the most common, yet annoyingly difficult, requests we get asked as Exchange admins is to find out what Distribution Groups someone is a member of. Today we’re going to show you a script that can help you with this process. If you don’t have time to mess around with PowerShell, you can quickly […]

This article will show you how to create a report showing how many users, mailboxes and mailbox types you have in Office 365. The PowerShell cmdlet below will show you a break down of the number of mailboxes you have by their type; be it User Mailboxes, Room Mailboxes, Shared Mailboxes and so forth. If […]

It can often be quite frustrating and difficult to do even the most simple of tasks in Office 365 – tasks like creating a Shared Mailbox. To try and make this process a little easier for the average person, I’ve put together a little PowerShell script to help you easily create a Shared Mailbox on […]

This Powershell script will connect to Office 365 and export all mailbox permissions to a CSV file. If you’re short on time and need this information regularly, we recommend that you try our Office 365 Reporting software. Read more The script only collects permissions that are non-standard, so it won’t pick up the built in […]