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Just how hard can it be to report on all the users within your organization that have the password never expires flag toggled? Apparently so hard, that two different teams within Microsoft managed to mess things up… that we know of 😀 …
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A query came up about not being able to activate Litigation hold on a (shared) mailbox in Exchange Online. While the there have not been any changes in the process of enabling a hold on a mailbox, we did get a change in the provisioning behavior for shared mailboxes few …
In this article we explore the recently introduced Get-MessageTraceV2 cmdlet and use it to bring new life to the good old Get-DetailedMessageStats.ps1 script. The script has now been updated to work with modern authentication methods and the new “no pagination” approach to fetching message trace data, as well as to handle scenarios that have become available since its initial introduction (i.e. plus addresses). …
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Entra ID’s password protection feature was introduced back in 2018, adding support for a banned password list, the smart lockout controls and integration with on-premises AD. Programmatic access to the feature was enabled via directory settings templates, which at the time were exposed via the Azure AD Preview PowerShell module, …
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In what looks like another attempt to curtail unsanctioned use of shared mailboxes in Exchange Online, Microsoft has begun blocking the ability to grant folder-level permissions to shared mailbox principals via PowerShell. As a side effect, you will no longer be able to use the Add-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet to designate a …
Continue readingYou can no longer delegate folder-level permissions to a shared mailbox