Some lesser known Calendar-related PowerShell cmdlets and parameters

A short article showcasing some of the (not so) recent additions in the arsenal of the Exchange Online admin for combating Calendar (and delegate) related issues. You will learn where the delegate collection is stored, how to clear it via the Remove-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet and the ResetDelegateUserCollection switch. Next we explore the new flag to manage delegate’s access to Categories, CanManageCategories. Lastly, we talk about the per-user (and tenant-wide) setting to control the behavior of declined meeting requests, PreserveDeclinedMeetings. …

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Unable to reset the SharingPermissionFlags flag when using Set-MailboxFolderPermission

In case you are running into issues with the Set-MailboxFolderPermission seemingly being unable to reset the value for the SharingPermissionFlags parameter, this article explains the “why”. In terms of solutions, there aren’t any good ones, as they all require you to perform additional (manual) actions. Hopefully the different teams within Microsoft will align at some point and allow us to manage delegates in a unified manner! …

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All you need to know about Exchange Online Admin API (or how to run cmdlets without PowerShell) – part 2

In this article, we try to summarize all the information you’d need in order to work with the Exchange Online Admin API. We cover the prerequisites, authentication, how to use any of the built-in cmdlets, as well as many “hidden gems”. The details you’ll find in this article enable you to perform almost all Exchange Online related operations without the need to even touch PowerShell. Keep in mind that anything we discuss here is not supported and in most cases, not even documented, so use at your own risk! …

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All you need to know about Exchange Online Admin API (or how to run cmdlets without PowerShell)

In this article, we try to summarize all the information you’d need in order to work with the Exchange Online Admin API. We cover the prerequisites, authentication, how to use any of the built-in cmdlets, as well as many “hidden gems”. The details you’ll find in this article enable you to perform almost all Exchange Online related operations without the need to even touch PowerShell. Keep in mind that anything we discuss here is not supported and in most cases, not even documented, so use at your own risk! …

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Quick look at the new Exchange Admin API additions

Microsoft has been telling us for years that it plans to deprecate the EWS API, yet has been very slow in addressing the gaps such deprecation would leave with the Graph API. With the October 2026 deadline approaching, we are finally seeing efforts to bridge said gaps, one of which …

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