Stephanie Kahlam

Microsoft 365 and SMB.

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Turn Off Outlook “Clutter” feature with PowerShell

What is Clutter? – https://blogs.office.com/2015/03/03/making-clutter-office-365-even-better/ Here’s how to disable the Clutter feature in Outlook using PowerShell for All mailboxes or individual. Please also note that this will “Disable” the Clutter feature but the Clutter folder will still remain visible.  If you have Clutter enabled it will appear in the options area of your Office 365 …

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How to Re-Sync a user’s Domain Password after it was reset in Office365

  Scenario: Directory Synchronization is occurring between On-premises AD and Office365 (WITHOUT password write-back enabled).  A “synced” users password was reset in the Office365 portal (for any number of Administrative or user related reasons)  Now the “synced” user does not have a synced Domain password.  What to do?  MS Cloud Services support told me not …

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Getting Current Health Analyzer Alerts with PowerShell

Recently while working on a SharePoint monitoring PowerShell script we stumbled across the need to output the results of SharePoint’s Health Analyzer using PowerShell. Perhaps not most commonly needed functionality but we think it has some neat applications. After a little bit of digging online and not finding anything we dove into Central Admin and …

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How to copy a users Office 365 email with PowerShell

  This is a simple method of “moving” a users email from their Office 365 account to a “Target Folder” in another users account using PowerShell.  If you are unable to access their email in any other way this will work well. Firstly ensure the user connecting to Exchange Online is a member of the …

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PowerShell – Retention (Tags & Policy)

Create a new Retention Tag New-RetentionPolicyTag -Name 1DAY -Type ‘Personal’ -AgeLimitForRetention 1 -RetentionAction ‘DeleteAndAllowRecovery’ -RetentionEnabled $true Get a List of all Retention Tags Get-RetentionPolicyTag Create a new Retention Policy New-RetentionPolicy “Company Policy” -RetentionPolicyTagLinks “Company Policy-Deleted Items”,”Company Policy-Sent Items” Apply a new Retention Policy to ALL users $UserMailboxes = Get-mailbox -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq ‘UserMailbox’)} $UserMailboxes | …

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Get Directory Synchronization Info

If you have enabled and configured DirSync you can view basic information regarding “Synchronization Status” from the Office 365 Administration Portal. You can however, view a more detailed overview by running a simple PowerShell command.

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