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As an Office 365 admin, you spend most of the time in PowerShell to accomplish administrative tasks. Office 365 includes a wide variety of cloud services like Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business Online, Teams, and Security & […]
Recently, Microsoft announced a significant update: “Basic Authentication retirement for legacy protocols in Exchange Online.” In short, no more Basic Authentication for following protocols to access Exchange Online. EWS (Exchange Web Services) EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) IMAP4 POP3 RPS (Remote PowerShell) […]
Exchange Online PowerShell Cmdlets are always handy for us as the Exchange Admin Center and Office 365 Admin Center has become less capable of doing many tasks. Many useful administration tasks can be done using PowerShell cmdlets that are not […]
PowerShell script reduces manually doing repetitive tasks. If you are frequently executing scripts at pre-defined times or specified time intervals, you may be tired of executing scripts repeatedly. Then, you can utilize Windows’ Task Scheduler to automate script execution for […]
LastLogonTime retrieved from Get-MailboxStatistics is not accurate but most of the administrators/scripts use this to identify inactive mailboxes. Nowadays, I see most forums have questions like “Why the Last Login Date reported by the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet is not correct”,” Some […]
As I was seeing a lot of feedback in my blog Export Office 365 users’ last logon time to CSV , regarding ‘How the script can produce recent last logon time even when the user blocked or disabled few months ago?’, I’ve decided to do […]
What is Distribution Group? Office 365 Distribution Groups (aka Distribution List) are used to send emails or meeting request to list of people (both internal and external users), without having to add the email address individually each time. Distribution Groups […]
What is MFA? Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) plays a vital role in securing user accounts. As the name suggests, it uses multiple methods to identify an authorized user. You can get to know more about what is MFA, how it works […]
If you want to connect Exchange Online PowerShell using MFA, you need to use a special PowerShell tool offered by Microsoft “Exchange Online PowerShell Module” (EXO). You can install Exchange Online PowerShell Module manually or you can use dedicated script […]
What is Office 365 Dynamic Distribution Group? Most people aware of Distribution Lists, but the Dynamic Distribution Group has several benefits over traditional distribution lists. In Office 365 environment, a Dynamic Distribution Group (DDL) is used to expedite the mass […]