One client that I work with has the new SharePoint online. For a specific project, I had to create more than one hundred users and all of them didn’t want to use their exchange account, so I had to come up with a solution. I’ve created a script to redirect their emails to their personal accounts.
Below I will demonstrate how to:
add-MailboxPermission -Identity user@domain.com -User admin -AccessRights fullaccess
new-inboxrule -name “Redirect to personal hotmail” -mailbox user@domain.com -redirectto user@gmail.com
remove-MailboxPermission -Identity user@domain.com -User admin -AccessRights fullaccess
More info below how to grant access:
- Grant an Admin access to a single mailbox
- Grant an Admin access to all mailboxes
- Revoke the above permissions (recommended cause of action after the Administrator has finished his/her tasks)
- First make sure you have the remote signed execution policy set to true. You can do this by running PowerShell in admin mode and running: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
- Next, run the following to authenticate your self and import PowerShell commands to your local session:
$LiveCred = Get-Credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange-ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session
Grant an Admin access to a single mailbox
Add-MailboxPermission user@domain.com -User admin@domain.com -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All
Grant an Admin access to all mailboxes
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (Alias -ne 'Admin')} | Add-MailboxPermission -Useradmin@domain.com-AccessRights fullaccess -InheritanceType all
Revoke the above permissions
- If you want to revoke permissions after granting them, simply replace the ‘Add-MailboxPermission‘ with ‘Remove-MailboxPermission‘ followed by the original command you entered to grant the permissions. For example, to grantadmin@example.com full access to user@example.com, you would enter the command:
Add-MailboxPermission user@example.com -User admin@example.com -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All
- To revoke admin@example.com from viewing user@example.com, you would enter the command:
Remove-MailboxPermission user@example.com -User admin@example.com -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All








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