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Office 365: Forward email to an external address with Powershell

March 19, 2014 by Paulie Leave a Comment

If you want to forward email to an external address in Office 365 there are several ways to do this.

This page has some good documentation about how the various ways to achieve this:

http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/exchange/how-to-forward-email-in-office-365.aspx

One of the nice things about doing this with Outlook Web App is that there is no need to create a new mail contact within your organisation or 365 account.

Using the standard web based Office 365 admin tools it does not seem possible to forward email for a user to an external address without creating a new mail contact, which in some cases is not ideal.

But, you can do this with Powershell quite easily and the link above provides some information on how to do this. This is the method that this blog post expands on.

We are going to be using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet once again to create the forwarding for us.

Use powershell to forward email to an external address

Simply fill in the fields below and the correct Powershell code will be created for you. You also need to decide if you would like the mail delivered only to the forwarding address or to both the forwarding address and the original mailbox. This is what the DeliverToMailboxAndForward parameter is used for.

E-Mail identity of mailbox to forward(e.g. [email protected]):

E-Mail address to forward mail to?(e.g. [email protected]):

Which mailboxes should the mail be delivered to?:

If you want to disable the forward in the future simply enter $null as the address that you would like to forward to and the forwarding will be cancelled.

Error 80070005 using Office 365 to send-as from a Shared Mailbox or Distribution Group

March 18, 2014 by Paulie 3 Comments

When trying to send email from a different address in Outlook on Office 365 you may receive Error 80070005 :

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject:    test
Sent: 18/03/2014 14:26

The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:

'[email protected]' on 18/03/2014 14:26
This message could not be sent. Try sending the message again later, or contact your network administrator.  Error is [0x80070005-00000000-00000000].

Quite a few people have reported that creating a new Outlook profile solves the problem but this did not work for me. I believe the cause of the issue in those instances is related to the auto-complete cache in Outlook.

Add the correct send-as permissions using Powershell to resolve Error 80070005

Even though I had already added the correct send-as permissions within the Office 365 web based administration system I decided to try adding them again within Powershell to see if this gave any different results.

After adding the permissions with Powershell I was able to send-as no problem at all and the error 80070005 ceased.

Adding send-as permissions with Powershell is easy and I have written a separate post on how to do it here

How to give send as permission in Office 365 Using Powershell

March 18, 2014 by Paulie 1 Comment

Granting “Send As” permissions on Office 365 permits a user to send mail from Office 365 using an email address assigned to another user or other mail enabled object, such as a distribution group.

To add “Send As” permissions for a user against another mailbox or distribution group you need to use the Add-MailboxPermission cmdlet.

e.g.

Add-RecipientPermission "Sales Group" -AccessRights SendAs -Trustee "Paulie"

I found it necessary to do this because for some reason performing the same operation from the web based Office 365 administration system didn’t seem to be adding the permission in correctly. This is not always the case, I’ve set this up plenty of times from within the GUI and it has worked fine. Setting the send as permission from Powershell seems to produce a consistent result.

Using powershell to grant send-as permissions

To make it super easy to configure this page will generate the required Powershell commands for you:

Identity(Target Recipient or group):

Trustee(The user you are granting send as access to:

Enter a value into the “Identity” field to identify the target object that you want to be able to send as (This can be any value that uniquely identifies the object such as Alias, email address etc).
Enter a value into the “Trustee” field to specify the user or group to whom you want to grant access
Copy the automatically generated code into a Powershell window and the change will be made.

Hope this helps 🙂

Office 365: Convert a shared mailbox to a user mailbox using Powershell

October 1, 2013 by Paulie 4 Comments

It is very easy to use Powershell to convert a shared mailbox to a user mailbox, or any other mailbox type in Office 365, but this cannot be done using the web interface.

This can be done by using the Set-mailbox cmdlet and there are four possible types of mailbox that you can set:

Regular
Room
Equipment
Shared

In order to do this you will need to connect to 365 with Powershell and execute the Set-Mailbox command against the mailbox that you want to change. As with my other 365 posts I’ve made this super simple for you by providing all of the code based on your parameters.

Before you run the script below it is important to check that you have set your Powershell execution policy, otherwise the script will not run. Set the execution policy to at least RemoteSigned, more information here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176961.aspx

Using Powershell to change a mailbox type in Office 365

Just fill in the identity value of the mailbox that you want to convert, then select the mailbox type that you want to convert it to. Then simply copy and paste the generated code to a Powershell window.

You will be prompted for your Office 365 credentials and then the change will be made.

E-Mail identity of mailbox (e.g. [email protected]):

Mailbox type to convert to:

If you are converting to a “Regular” mailbox, ensure that you assign a license after you have run the conversion.

Office 365 – Hide contacts from the GAL (Global Address List) with Powershell

September 30, 2013 by Paulie 4 Comments

I noticed when I was setting up a mail contact in Office 365 (Wave 15) today that there is no way to hide contacts from the GAL via the web based user interface for Office 365 like there is for normal mailboxes.

You can however, hide contacts by using Powershell using the Set-Mailcontact cmdlet, this blog post will provide the code required for you to be able to easily hide contacts from the GAL.

Hiding a Mail Contact from the Global Address List in Office 365

Simply enter the email address of the contact that you would like to hide (or unhide) and copy all of the generated code into a Powershell window and the change to the contact will be made.

The code generated below is for “Mail contacts” not standard mailboxes.

When you run the code, you will be prompted for your credentials and then Powershell will connect and make the required change.

E-Mail Address of contact:

Action:

Hope this was useful 🙂

Delete an email alias from a distribution group in Office 365 using Powershell

September 25, 2013 by Paulie Leave a Comment

If you are trying to remove an email alias in a distribution group in Office 365 using the web interface you will see the following error:

Conversion from Microsoft.Exchange.Management.ControlPanel.EmailAddressItem to Microsoft.Exchange.Data.ProxyAddress has not been implemented.

It is not a very helpful error message, and it also happens when you are trying to add an alias.

It is possible to work around this problem in web interface, but it is not simple. The easiest way to remove the alias to the distribution group using Microsoft Powershell.

Removing an alias address to a distribution group in Office 365 using Powershell

This is very similar to the post I did on adding an email alias

The email address is removed by using the Set-DistributionGroup cmdlet, but all the Powershell code you need will be created for you by filling out the boxes below:

Group Name:

Email Address to add:

Simply copy and paste the text above into a Powershell Window and all the hard work will be done for you.

You will be prompted for your Office 365 credentials (make sure you enter credentials with permissions to edit the group) and then then your session will be established.

Then email alias will be removed from the distribution group and that change should be visible in the web interface moments later.