Some time you may have a test mailbox and it may have some unwanted emails and you may need to delete all the emails permanently.
You can use a simple command as below in Exchange PowerShell
Search-Mailbox -Identity "nawaz" -DeleteContent
Please note that the emails will be deleted permanently and you would not able to recover even from the recoverable items.
Today i was trying to search and delete an email from user's mailboxes in Exchange online/Office 365.
My steps were as below.
1: Connect-EXOPSSession -UserPrincipalName myadmin@mydomain.com
2:
$Search=New-ComplianceSearch -Name "Remove Phishing Message" -ExchangeLocation All -ContentMatchQuery '(Received:4/13/2016..4/14/2016) AND (Subject:"Action required")' Start-ComplianceSearch -Identity $Search.Identity
But were getting the following error
New-ComplianceSearch : The term 'New-ComplianceSearch' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
Solution:
Run the following command to connect to "Security & Compliance Center PowerShell"
Connect-IPPSSession -UserPrincipalName khan.nawaz@pt.net.com
and after that is was able to run the New-ComplianceSearch command.
As per TechNet article this command is used to connect to Security & Compliance Center PowerShell or standalone Exchange Online Protection PowerShell using modern authentication. The cmdlet works for MFA or non-MFA enabled accounts.
For further detail:
Connect-IPPSSession (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Docs
and
Some time you need to offboard your skype users from Skype for business online (Office 365) to your Skype for business on premise infrastructure. you can use the Skype for business Control panel or the PowerShell. To use the PowerShell you can follow the following steps. make sure that your FE server have internet access or access at least to Office 365, and also make sure that you have the required privileges to both Office 365 and on your on premise Skype for business environment.
Then Login to your FE server and open the "Skype for business Server management shell" with Run as administrator privileges.
Then store your credentials with the following command in $cred variable.
$cred=Get-Credential
(Note: you should use Global Admin or any other admin users with required rights and the user should be like in admin@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com format )
then use the following command to move for example the user Abc@domain.com.
Move-CsUser -Identity Abc@domain.com -Target SFB15FEPool.domain.com -HostedMigrationOverrideUrl https://adminxa.online.lync.com/HostedMigration/hostedmigrationService.svc -Credential $cred -Confirm:$False
or you can store the URL in a variable and then use following command.
$url="https://admin1a.online.lync.com/HostedMigration/hostedmigrationService.svc"
Move-CsUser -Identity username@contoso.com -Target pool.corp.contoso.com -Credential $cred -HostedMigrationOverrideUrl $url
(Note: store your HostedMigrationOverrideUrl in $url, which you can find from office 365 and may be some thing like in below format. (only the XA may be different for each tenant)
$url=https://adminXA.online.lync.com/HostedMigration/hostedmigrationService.svc)
For further detail look into the following link.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/lync-server-2013/lync-server-2013-move-users-to-lync-online?redirectedfrom=MSDN
Issue:
Due to some issues, i had to re subscribe the edge server.
After creating the edge subscription file on the edge server with the following command.
New-EdgeSubscription –FileName “c:\EdgeSubFile.xml”
then copied the file "EdgeSubFile" to one mailbox server. and tried the following command.
New-EdgeSubscription -FileData ([byte[]]$(Get-Content -Path "c:\EdgeSubFile.xml" -Encoding Byte -ReadCount 0)) -Site "sitename"
Getting the following Error:
The subscription file failed to load for the following reason: The direct trust certificate of the subscribed Edge Transport server with thumbprint
<Thumprint> is a duplicate of the certificate of one of the HubTransport servers. Sharing the same certificate between Edge and Hub Transport
servers is not allowed.
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-EdgeSubscription], InvalidOperationException
Solution:
as mentioned in the error, the issue was with the SSL certificate, So after some searching on some forums, tried the following steps and the issue was resolved/successfully subscribed the edge.
On the edge server
You have to first download "Microsoft Exchange Online Power shell Module" from your exchange admin center portal (https://outlook.office.com/ecp/)
then it should pop up for the credentials and also for the second factor authentication.
First we have to connect MSOLService through powershell.
Connect-MsolService
Then get the list of available licenses with the following command.
Get-MsolAccountSku
then we can use the following command to Get the users with a specific license
Get-MsolUser -MaxResults 200000 | Where-Object {($_.licenses).AccountSkuId -match "p:ems"} >c:\pathc\EMSUsers.CSV
Go to
Audit log search - Security & Compliance (office.com)
on the right side Select Search ---> Audit log Search---->in Search Activities "Show activities for all activities"
set Start and End dates
in Users box enter the mailbox/email address on which you want the activities performed.
in file, folder, or Site you may enter required details, even may be the subject of the email.
then it may take some time to complete the query and then you may download the result of the search in excel sheet or can view in the same window here.
it will show all the activities performed on the mailbox.
