There may be an occasion when we need to find out who the members of a dynamic distribution group are. The following two commands should get us what we need, when run from the Exchange Management Shell. The only changes that need to be made to the commands are the items in red; based on the dynamic…
To add an individual mailbox user to a distribution group in PowerShell that has an owner already assigned, the command will look similar to this… Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity “DISTRIBUTION_GROUP_NAME” -Member “USER_ALIAS” -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck To add multiple mailbox users to multiple distribution groups, we need to make a CSV file (C:\DistroMembers.csv for this example). The CSV file should…
I had a project recently where we were migrating from hosted Exchange to Office 365. We implemented AAD Connect to sync Active Directory (AD) user objects for the user mailboxes that where being migrated. However, we manually created shared and resource mailboxes, groups, and contacts in O365 as those were not going to be created in AD for synchronization.…
I had a project recently where we were migrating from hosted Exchange to Office 365. We implemented AAD Connect to sync Active Directory (AD) user objects for the user mailboxes that where being migrated. However, we manually created shared and resource mailboxes, groups, and contacts in O365 as those were not going to be created in AD for synchronization.…
In this previous article, we made basic license assignments to users in Office 365 using PowerShell. When I say basic, the method is the simplest way to create an AD user, mailbox in Office 365, and enable all of the license options (Exchange Online, Office 365 ProPlus, Office Online, etc.) within a specific subscription license (Office 365 Enterprise E3,…
