Remove a single user’s permissions from all mailboxes in Office 365

Longest title in history?

A while back we were doing some troubleshooting and we added an administrator’s account to have read permissions on all of our mailboxes. Mailboxes permissions came up as a topic yesterday in a conversation I was having and I remembered I had meant to clean this up. I could have gone about this a bunch of different ways, but ultimately I wanted to create a script in case I ever needed it again. Continue reading “Remove a single user’s permissions from all mailboxes in Office 365”

Delete An Email From All Mailboxes – Exchange 2007

Ex-Mgmt-Shell

Another day, another user who decided to give away their username and password to a phishing email. Thankfully this time it happened on a Monday morning, the spammer was kind enough to send to my internal users, and even better sent a spam to our helpdesk email. In other words – they basically told me they were sending spam from one of our mailboxes.

I did the usual – disabled the account/changed the password, blocked the spam/phishing site, purged our (growing) mail queues. But this time I really wanted to get rid of the email. So…
Powershell (Exchange Management Shell) to the rescue. Continue reading “Delete An Email From All Mailboxes – Exchange 2007”

Exchange 2007 Quick Tip: Getting Members of a Dynamic Distribution Group

If you need to get a listing of all the people (and email addresses) who will receive an email from a dynamic distribution group and then export that to CSV:

$members = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup -resultsize unlimited -Identity “Distribution Group Name”
Get-Recipient -resultsize unlimited -RecipientPreviewFilter $members.RecipientFilter | select Displayname,PrimarySmtpAddress | Export-Csv C:\temp\NameOfCSV.Csv
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