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Creating User mailboxes on Office365 / Exchange online hybrids

This post would help to create User mailboxes in Hybrid environment. The best way to do is creating a user account/mailbox On-Prem AD and then enabling remote mailbox or migrating it to Exchange online.We will discuss on the below scenarios. 1) Create a Office365 mailbox from EAC. 2) Create a AD object and then enable remote mailbox from On-Prem. 3) Enable remote mailbox for a existing AD user. The following two methods will not populate the Exchange attributes on the On-Prem and will impact Exchange functionality and feature (like autodiscover) while using a Hybrid setup. How to remedy it will be discussed in another thread. 4) Creating AD object and licensing it to directly provision mailbox on Exchange online. 5) Soft match existing Exchange online mailbox to AD user. Note: Please use appropriate naming convention as per your organisation email address policy like lastname.firstname or firstname.lastname. I have used useralias in the examples below. Create a Office365...

Assigning License to a Office365 User

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Assigning License to a Office365 User Log on to Office365 portal  Select Admin tile to view your Admin center page you can search the user on the Admin center home page or search from the Active user tab. Select the user and click edit on the product license tab. Fill the location and select appropriate license/service with in the license.

Find primary mail address of a Office 365 / Exchange Online mailbox

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Find primary mail address of a Office 365 / Exchange Online mailbox Using portal Log on to  Office365 portal  then navigate to Exchange Admin Center (EAC) or open  EAC  directly  Select Admin tile to view your Admin center page Select Exchange from the Admin drop down.  Select mailboxes from the EAC page. search for the user, click on the user to get the mailbox property.  Select email address from the list on the left. The address which is highlighted and in caps is the primary mail/SMTP address. We can also use powershell to get the mail address details Open powershell as administrator Connect to Exchange online Run any of the below command Get-Mailbox <"alias" or "displayname"> | select PrimarySmtpAddress Get-Mailbox -Identity <"alias" or "displayname"> | select PrimarySmtpAddress

Connect to Exchange online powershell

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Connect to Exchange Online powershell Run Powershell as administrator Copy paste the below commands and enter credentials when prompted $cloudcred = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $cloudCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session Alternatively you can save above commands in a file as .ps1 and execute it on the powershell window The newer powershell module Exchange PowerShell V2 allows you to connect directly using below command and also support MFA. Connect-EXOPSSession -UserPrincipalName "your UPN" use can connect to Azure Active directory and Exchange online by running the following commands (by just add two line to the above one) import-module msonline $cloudcred = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com...

When recipient doesn't receive your mail in HTML format and see plain text

If you are able to send and receive mails in HTML format then issue might be at the recipient end. How the message appears to the person receiving it depends on their email program. If the recipient's email program is set to convert messages, then a message you send formatted as HTML could be converted to plain text. Please ensure the below settings are set on Outlook. On the File tab, choose Options > Mail. Under Compose messages, in the Compose messages in this format list, click HTML   Please ensure the below settings are set on Office365 OWA/Webmail. Log on to https://outlook.office.com/owa/ At the top of the page, select Settings (gear icon)  > Options, and then select Settings > Mail Mail > Layout > Message format Compose messages in this format is set to HTML At the recipient end, check for the below settings in the Outlook application and try to disable Antivirus add-ins/scans. Click on File > Options > Trust Center...