Preventing users from browsing Azure AD via the WAAD PowerShell module

Few months back, this question popped out on the Office 365 Yammer network. ​Ryan Marchant was worried about the fact that any sing-in enabled Office 365 user could just login with the WAAD module for PowerShell and export all the user information with a few simple cmdlets. While I argued that …

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Soft-matching mechanism for dirsync and ‘mail’ attribute

Well, apparently you can (now?) use the ‘mail’ attribute to do a soft-match between an on-prem user object and a cloud one. Am I the only one that never knew this? 🙂 I cannot actually recall testing this in the past, but all the documentation we have about the soft-match …

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How to add a shared mailbox as additional account in Outlook

NOTE: You can find an updated version of this article here. Shared mailboxes are just one of the many great collaboration features of Exchange, and probably the most used one. There is a lot of information about them on the web, for example this TechNet article. Unfortunately, there are still some …

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Maximum message size increased to 150MB for all types of migration to Exchange Online

​Few months back, the Exchange Online team announced a long awaited feature – increasing the maximum size for messages to 150MB. This was actually a two-part solution, with the first part being allowing migration of messages larger than 25MB (35MB) during remove mailbox moves via the Mailbox Replication Service. This made …

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Quickly list all mailboxes to which a particular user has access

Quick and painless PowerShell examples to list the permissions for specific user across all mailboxes in the tenant. Includes examples for Full Access, Send on behalf of, Send As permissions, and more. Fastest way to find out which mailboxes a given user has access to. …

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