Simplify Exchange (Online) management with ScriptRunner

Unplanned absences such as business trips, illness or other events can happen at any time. Sometimes colleagues go on holiday and forget to activate their out-of-office assistant in Outlook. Even if an employee leaves the company, it certainly makes sense to send a corresponding message to his or her business contacts.

Automating recurring Microsoft Exchange and Exchange Online tasks with PowerShell is key for successful IT professionals and system engineers. This article explores six PowerShell use cases for managing Microsoft Exchange.

Adjustments to mailbox volume, deputy rules, changed mail retrieval settings, mobile device unlocking and blocking, and updating distribution lists are often required. All tasks that could be done more quickly and easily and would lend themselves to delegation. Unfortunately, this requires administrative rights on the Exchange Server.

When migrating an organization from an on-premises mail solution to Exchange Online, a typical scenario is how to handle mail flow at the end of the project when the on-premises email solution is no longer present. Some organizations have never used Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and are using a third-party solution like ProofPoint, MessageLabs or Barracuda for example. At this phase of the project, a decision needs to be made – switch to just EOP or maintain the current third-party email hygiene product and incorporate EOP into that mix.