A script I recently used to add members to an office 365 distribution group using a remote exchange session in a hybrid setup (covered at the end). $SourceFile = "" Import-CSV $SourceFile | ForEach ` {Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "Group Name" -Member $_.UPN Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "Processed the record for $($_.UPN)" } CSV file contains UPNs of…
This only applies to new Active Directory users. To look at how to use SMTP matching to link an on-prem user to an existing O365 mailbox in a hybrid environment follow this guide.1. Log into the Exchange Admin Center: https://mail.contoso.com/ecp2. In the EAC console of your on-premises hybrid server, go to Recipients > Mailboxes and click…
The scenario is that a user account has been created in Office 365 in a hybrid setup. This scenario is actually ok and is supported by Microsoft. However, it causes problems for an Office 365 user when they require access to public folders on the on-premises Exchange server. First make sure you have the correct…
Recently I needed to do this for our PRTG alerting account which was failing to send notifications as the O365 password had expired. I did this from Powershell within Windows 10 as follows: Launch powershell as Administrator then run Install-Module MsOnline Then run Connect-MsOlService at this point an O365 authentication box pops up – enter…
First connect to the remote server with powershell Enter-PSSession -ComputerName contoso\hv01 Next run the command to add the group: Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "CONTOSO\Hyper-V Admins" If you’re paranoid (like me) and want to check this worked you can use: Get-LocalGroupMember "Administrators"
If you’ve tried to add a powershell script to a registry run key, you’ve probably discovered that it doesn’t run with powershell. Instead, Windows just opens the script in Notepad and leaves it sitting there all naked and exposed! So in order to launch the powershell scripts we’re going to need to use a .bat…