Exchange Online now supports the -like operator for PrimarySMTPAddress filtering, sort of

In today’s useless bit of information, I present you the news that we can now use the -like operator when filtering against the PrimarySmtpAddress attribute in Exchange Online. Filters are certainly one of the most useful features and any Exchange (and Office 365) administrator should be taking advantage of them …

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Permanently disable a mailbox in Office 365

One of the differences between on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online is the way user mailbox objects are provisioned, or de-provisioned. In the on-premises world, this is of course dependent on the underlying AD, but as long as you have the necessary permissions you can provision a new user, along with …

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Bulk enable specific services via the Azure AD PowerShell module

In a previous article, we covered the scenario of bulk-disable a specific Office 365 service/plan for a group of users via the Azure AD PowerShell module. The script is fairly simple – it gets the list of users, iterates over each of them and adjust the licenses based on the …

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Temporary glitch in the way Exchange Online object identities were returned

The new year greeted us with an interesting glitch, or intentional change, with the way Exchange Online PowerShell displays some properties. As first reported in this TechNet forums thread, suddenly we were seeing different values for properties such as the Retention policy, all of them being prefixed by the tenant …

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