5.4.1 NDRs when sending external messages to modern Groups (aka DBEB and Groups don’t play well together)

​Modern groups were introduced an year ago and are Microsoft’s vision for the way collaboration between small teams should work. In general, they are loved by the customers as they are easy to use and do offer a lot of value. That being said, they are not without issues – support …

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Don’t leave your Remote PowerShell sessions unattended!

I thought this goes without saying, but apparently people still need to be reminded. If you leave your session unattended, say by forgetting to lock your PC or by using a shared account to login to a remote PC, you are just asking for trouble. Remember that credentials are stored …

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Recipient permissions (Send As) missing from the default View-Only Organization Management Role group

​Here’s a fun fact – the Get-RecipientPermission cmdlet is not available for members of the “View-Only Organization Management” role group. In effect, those users will not be able to see Send As permissions on any object within their scope, either via the GUI or via PowerShell. It looks like the …

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“Convert” a (shared) mailbox to Distribution group

​There was a thread recently on the community forums where some gentleman was asking about this. Leaving the arguments around this “conversion” aside, here’s how you can achieve something like this. This is what this little script does: It will ask you for the mailbox name, and will keep asking you …

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Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet now returns UPN as the user info

A small, but very important change has been pushed to the EO servers. Namely, the output of the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet now includes the UPN of the user, instead of the display name. Here’s an example: While the change itself is minor, it does help a lot. Especially in large organizations …

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