In this post, I will try to add some of the commands you need for managing Office 365, and some code snipets to do pre-migration checks and so on.

I will edit this post and keep adding things to keep them in one place.

Connecting to MSOL/Exchange Online

To connect to MSOL you simple run:

Connect-MsolService

To connect to Exchange Online:

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -Allow

Import-PSSession $Session

If you you are behind a proxy-server, you might need to add some session options. Like this (if you configured proxy in IE):

$proxysettings = New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType IEConfig
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -Allow -SessionOption $proxysettings

To save your credentials to be used in an automated script, you can do this:

# Get the credential into a variable
$MyCredential = Get-Credential

# Convert the password to an encrypted string and save to file
$MyCredential.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File .\Password.txt

# To load the credential...

# Set your username
$User = "[email protected]"

# Get the password from the file
$Password = Get-Content .\Password.txt | ConvertTo-SecureString

# Build the credential
$O365Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential($User,$Password)

That credential can now be used togheter with the Connect-MsolService/New-PSSession cmdlets.

List all users and their AccountSkuId/License
This might sound easy, but the “Get-MsolUser”-cmdlet is returning an advanced object which makes it a bit difficult to export to for example a csv-file.

But if you use the Select-Object-cmdlet togheter with an expression you will get the job done!

You could to something like this to expand the AccountSkuId for all your users:

Get-MsolUser -All | Select-Object UserPrincipalName, @{Name="License" ; Expression={ ($_ | select -ExpandProperty Licenses | select -ExpandProperty AccountSkuId ) } }

Just pipe that to for example Export-Csv to save the information on disk.

Duplicates in forwarding address

If you have multiple smtp-domains, you might run into a problem with duplicates if you only have one *.onmicrosoft.com domain (simpler than creating multiple ones). Want to see if this is a problem in your domain?

This is one way of doing it:

$Duplicates=Get-ADUser -Filter * | Group-Object { ($_.UserPrincipalName -split "@")[0] } | Where-Object Count -gt 1

$Duplicates now contains all of the users that will be a problem if you only have one “forwarding domain”. There are many options to solve this, forward to something else (AccountName or similiar), add a part of the maildomain left of the @-sign etc…

Managing Mobile Devices

To add a device for a user:

Set-CASMailbox -Identity '[email protected]' -ActiveSyncAllowedDeviceIDs ($MyArrayWithDeviceIDs)

To get all device id’s associated with a user:

Get-CASMailbox -Identity '[email protected]' | select -ExpandProperty ActiveSyncAllowedDeviceIDs

Clear all allowed devices:

Set-CASMailbox -Identity '[email protected]' -ActiveSyncAllowedDeviceIDs $null

Setting a license

To give a user a license you could do something like this:

# Create the license options (if you need to disable some plans)
$LicenseOptions = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId $AccountSkuId -DisabledPlans $DisabledPlans

# Set the country (two letter "code")
Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $UserAccount -UsageLocation $UsageLocation

# Set the license
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $UserAccount -AddLicenses $AccountSkuId -LicenseOptions $LicenseOptions

# If you don't need to disable anything just use this instead of the above:
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $UserAccount -AddLicenses $AccountSkuId

Creating Shared Mailboxes
To create a shared mailbox, you first have to give it a temporary license to create the mailbox (see above), then set it to shared, remove the license and add the permissions that are needed.

If the mailbox has a license you could do something like this:

# Set it to shared (mailbox need to exist first, so set a license, wait, and then try this)
Set-Mailbox '[email protected]' -Type Shared -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 5GB -ProhibitSendQuota 4.75GB -IssueWarningQuota 4.5GB

# Set full access permissions
Add-MailboxPermission '[email protected]' -User 'GroupOrUserName' -AccessRights FullAccess -Confirm:$false

# Set 'SendAs' permission if needed
Add-RecipientPermission '[email protected]' -Trustee 'GroupOrUserName' -AccessRights SendAs -Confirm:$false

# Remove the license
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName '[email protected]' -RemoveLicenses $AccountSkuId

Change UPN of a licensed user
If the user UPN prefix (left of @) changes, DirSync will fix it automatically, if the domain part change, you need to run a few commands to change it.

The overall process is to change it in the On-Prem AD, change it in Azure to your “*.onmicrosoft.com”-domain, and then change it to the new domain.

Example, we need to change John Doe’s smtp domain from “contoso.com” to “contoso2.com”:

# Set the new UPN in Active Directory
Set-Aduser -identity JohnDoe -UserPrincipalName '[email protected]'

# Change the UPN in Azure to a temporary one
Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName '[email protected]' -NewUserPrincipalName '[email protected]'

# Change it to the new one
Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName '[email protected]' -NewUserPrincipalName '[email protected]'

Run a DirSync and you are done!

Add a Room
To add a room mailbox and set it to auto-accept a booking (if the time slot is free), and make it possible for your users to book it a year ahead (for example) you do the following:

# Create the room (with seats for 20 people)
New-Mailbox -Name "ConferenceRoom1" -DisplayName "Conference Room 1" -PrimarySmtpAddress "[email protected]" -Office "Contoso HQ" -ResourceCapacity 20 -Room

# Make it accept invitations if the time slot is free, 
Set-CalendarProcessing "ConferenceRoom1" -AutomateProcessing AutoAccept -BookingWindowInDays 365

If you run Outlook 2010 or newer (or the OWA) you most certainly want to create a roomlist. The users can then pick that list and see all available rooms right away. You might want to name it after the Office location or similar.

To add a room list and add a room to that list you do the following:

# Add the room list
New-DistributionGroup -Name "ContosoHQ-Rooms" -DisplayName "Contoso HQ" –PrimarySmtpAddress "[email protected]" –RoomList

# Add a room to it
Add-DistributionGroupMember –Identity "ContosoHQ-Rooms" -Member "ConferenceRoom1"

You might need to update your offline address book before this works properly in Outlook, it should work pretty much instantly in the OWA.