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I was recently asked if it was possible to count how many users in an organisation had POP3 enabled. Fortunately for us, Microsoft have made this task relatively easy with the use of the Get-CasMailbox cmdlet. This simply outputs a list of your users along with a nice formatted table stating whether each of the […]

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 […]

The mobile market these days is one that is forever changing. Everyone seems to have their own personal device, sometimes two if you have a work mobile and then of course you may have a tablet. Which is no surprise why we are seeing so many companies these days with hundreds if not thousands of […]

Want to save this blog for later? Download it now. One of the most requested features for our Office 365 reporting application 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 […]

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 reports. We include a Litigation Hold report out of the box. Read more  Otherwise, run the following cmdlet: […]

Want to save this blog for later? Download it now. 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 […]

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 […]