• Active Directory,  Microsoft Exchange Server

    Create Email Aliases in Office 365

    The things are always changing. I write less and less how-to things because as the rate of innovation skyrockets (another way to say changes that are sometimes good and sometimes bad) – the second I hit save the article seems out of date, or technical debt. But hey, sometimes I have to look longer than I should for something. So. To create an email alias in Microsoft Online/Office 365. Login to an account with Exchange administrative capabilities Click the Admin tab. Click Exchange in the left sidebar. Click Recipients. Click Mailboxes (or Users in the newer interface). Click the user to create the alias for (in the old interface click…

  • cloud,  Microsoft Exchange Server,  Windows Server

    Managing Office 365 Users Using PowerShell

    Programmatically controlling the cloud is an important part of trying to reign in the chaos of disparate tools that the beancounters make us use these days. Of all the companies out there, Microsoft seems to understand this about as well as anyone and their fine programmers have provided us with a nice set of tools to manage Office 365 accounts, both in a browser (as with most cloud services) and in a shell (which is what we’ll talk about in this article). This article isn’t really about scripting PowerShell. Instead we’re just looking at a workflow that could be used to script a Student Information System, HRIS solution or another…