Exchange Online has long supported the concept of soft-deleted (and/or “disconnected”) mailboxes, which was later extended to the inactive mailboxes functionality. Recently, some updates have been made to Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlets, some of which now support parameters specific to soft-deleted objects. So in this article, I’ll try to cover …

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Few days back I briefly covered the advancements in Exchange Online’s support for service principal objects. In the context of said article, we only talked about Full access permissions, but since service principals are now supported objects in Exchange Online, the question remains which other functionalities support them. So let’s …

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As I’m continuing the quest of updating old scripts to the latest and greatest, our next step is the mailbox permissions inventory script. Few things have changed since the initial version of said script was released. Most notably, Microsoft cleaned up the output a bit, and “system” entries are no …

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As I was making some changes to the Mailbox permissions inventory script, I noticed few new parameters made available for the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet. So it was only natural to take them for a spin. The parameters in question include -IncludeUnresolvedPermissions and -IncludeSoftDeletedUserPermissions, as well as the generic -SoftDeletedMailbox. Here are …

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