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How to Add, Change, and Remove Mailbox Folder Permissions With PowerShell in Office 365

For IT administrators managing Office 365 and Exchange Server, having control over mailbox folder-level permissions is a crucial task. PowerShell, a powerful scripting language developed by Microsoft, offers a convenient and efficient way to control access to specific mailbox folders for users within an organization, including the calendar folder. In this article, I will detail...

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What’s the Real Size of Exchange Online Mailboxes?

The Office 365 Substrate uses Exchange Online mailboxes to store a lot of data that users never see. The data is used by the substrate for different purposes, mostly to make it easier for features to get to relevant information. Microsoft doesn’t document exactly what is stored, where it is stored, and how it is used, so we must poke around in the innards of mailboxes to see what we can discover.

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Microsoft Deprecating Exchange Online’s Search-Mailbox Cmdlet

Microsoft has started to flag its intention to deprecate the Search-Mailbox cmdlet. It’s probably the right time to remove this cmdlet from Exchange Online because Office 365 compliance searches can serve the same purpose. At least, compliance searches can do most of what Search-Mailbox does faster. Some functionality gaps need to be filled before we can bid adieu to Search-Mailbox, but its time is coming.

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[Sponsored] The Need for PST Eradication from Office 365 Tenants

The PST is now a very old file format. Originally introduced to give users the ability to store email moved from their Exchange mailbox, the need for PSTs disappeared years ago because Office 365 users have massive mailboxes. Despite this, some organizations persist in allowing people to use PSTs.

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Moving Legacy Archives to Office 365 Is Painful

Migration of legacy archives like Enterprise Vault are often left as the last part of the journey from on-premises servers to Office 365. A wide range of third-party migration tools are available, but many complex twists and turns await the unwary as they cope with journal reports, archive mailboxes, splitting and explosions, and the sheer amount of data to be migrated. It’s an interesting problem to solve.

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Create Exchange 2010 Multiple Mailbox Reports with PowerShell

The best thing about PowerShell is that what you can do for one item you can do for 1,000. Learn to create multiple Exchange 2010 mailbox reports using PowerShell.

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Create Exchange 2010 Mailbox Size Reports with PowerShell

Whip up an Exchange 2010 mailbox storage report using PowerShell with this handy how-to article!

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How To Find Office 365 Mailbox Size With PowerShell

Michael Simmons explains how you can use PowerShell to find mailbox sizes in Office 365. Michael shows you two functions that you will need (and can save for later use) and then walks you through the steps to administer Office 365 quickly and efficiently in PowerShell.

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Creating Recipient Filters in Exchange 2007

Recipient filtering can be a handy way to quickly locate a user or a mailbox, but it can also be a great way to perform an action on a subgroup. In this article, Brien Posey shows how to create simple and compound recipient filters and perform actions on the filter results through the Exchange Management Shell.

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The Benefits of Creating Multiple Storage Groups, Part 1

The way that storage groups and mailbox databases are used on a mailbox server has a huge impact on the server’s performance and reliability. In this article, Brien Posey explains why this is the case, and helps you to figure out the best mailbox server architecture for your own environment.

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