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We start the new year on a not so positive note. In short, Microsoft messed up the scope of impacted PowerShell cmdlets, as part of the connectivity changes introduced last August (MC1131771), which we initially covered here. After the initial rollout, many customers started noticing strange behavior with additional cmdlets, …
A short article showcasing some of the (not so) recent additions in the arsenal of the Exchange Online admin for combating Calendar (and delegate) related issues. You will learn where the delegate collection is stored, how to clear it via the Remove-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet and the ResetDelegateUserCollection switch. Next we explore the new flag to manage delegate’s access to Categories, CanManageCategories. Lastly, we talk about the per-user (and tenant-wide) setting to control the behavior of declined meeting requests, PreserveDeclinedMeetings. …
Continue readingSome lesser known Calendar-related PowerShell cmdlets and parameters
In case you are running into issues with the Set-MailboxFolderPermission seemingly being unable to reset the value for the SharingPermissionFlags parameter, this article explains the “why”. In terms of solutions, there aren’t any good ones, as they all require you to perform additional (manual) actions. Hopefully the different teams within Microsoft will align at some point and allow us to manage delegates in a unified manner! …
In a welcome, albeit long-awaited, development, Microsoft has finally added support for certificate-based authentication (or CBA) for the SharePoint Online PowerShell module. The news was published as part of the MC1188595 message center post, which unfortunately is a bit light on the details. So let me fill in the gaps …
In this article, we try to summarize all the information you’d need in order to work with the Exchange Online Admin API. We cover the prerequisites, authentication, how to use any of the built-in cmdlets, as well as many “hidden gems”. The details you’ll find in this article enable you to perform almost all Exchange Online related operations without the need to even touch PowerShell. Keep in mind that anything we discuss here is not supported and in most cases, not even documented, so use at your own risk! …