Category: Cloud

Issue Microsoft Office 365 shared mailbox secondary alias cannot be removed. I tried removing the alias via Office 365 Admin Center, Exchange Admin Center, and PowerShell (Set-Mailbox “mailbox.name” -EmailAddresses @{remove=”email@domain.com”;}). None of these methods works, it initially looks like the operation succeeds, but the alias is never removed. The shared mailbox in question used to…

Issue 1&1 (Ionos) hosted Exchange 2013 mailbox works fine in Outlook and via Webmail but doesn’t work on iPhone. The account gets added to iPhone Passwords and Accounts without any errors (using server exchange.ionos.eu), but when in the actual Mail app, no emails get ever downloaded, and occasionally it pops up an error saying that connection…

Archived emails in Gmail are simply emails with all labels removed. You can view them in “All Mail” view, but they are displayed alongside all other emails. To view only archived mail (i.e. emails with no labels) run following search: has:nouserlabels -in:Inbox -in:Sent -in:Draft -in:Chat

Issue Windows server and Kyocera photocopier can no longer send emails through Office 365 SMTP server (domain.mail.protection.outlook.com). The issue started happening after ISP change (new ISP was UK’s PlusNet). After checking PowerShell mail send script output I found following error: Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Service unavailable, Client host…

I play music on my Google Home Hub through an external Samsung Bluetooth speaker. The initial pairing has to be done from Google Home app, but after this, it’s sufficient to say “Hei Google, connect to Bluetooth” and Google Home would say “OK, looking for paired devices” and almost immediately connect to the speaker. This worked…

Assign Mailbox Import Export role to yourself (can take up to 24 hour to take effect, normally around 1 hour): Exchange Admin Centre > Permissions > Admin Roles. Create a new role: Name: Import / Export Write Scope: Default Roles: Mailbox Import Export Members: <admin name> Go to Office 365 Security & Compliance > Data Governance…

To disable SPAM filtering for individual mailbox as an end user: Login to user’s webmail (https://outlook.office.com) Settings > Mail > Block or Allow Check option: “Don’t move email to my Junk Email folder“ Save changes

Ubiquity UniFi Cloud Key controllers are notorious for getting corrupted database after powering them off without clean shut down. Best course of action in such cases is to factory reset the Cloud Key and then restore from a backup up. If no backup is available you’ll have to factory reset and reconfigure it from scratch.…

I had a task of migrating few thousands contacts and some calendars from Apple iCloud to Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange) system. Importing Calendars was pretty straight forward: Export all calendars in .ics format on a Mac via buit-on Calendar (select your calendar > File > Export > Export). Open .ics calendar on Windows Machine with…

This is how I normally create a company-wide Shared Calendar in Office 365: Exchange Admin Center > Recipients > Shared Create a new Shared Account Edit account’s properties and in Mailbox Delegation  tab add All Users group to Full Access list. This will give your users permission to add shared calendar to their MS Outlook…