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To send e-mail through an SMTP server from PowerShell scripts, you can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet. Its major drawback is that it can only use Basic SMTP authentication and…

Microsoft Entra ID (ex Azure AD) supports Certificate Based Authentication (CBA). This means that you can use certificate authentication to automatically run your PowerShell scripts with no password entry and…

It may be necessary to check the user’s presence status (Online/Away/Busy) in Microsoft Teams before performing a particular action for some integration scripts. Let’s have a look at how to…

In Exchange Server and Exchange Online (Microsoft 365), you can enable email forwarding at the mailbox level (configured by the administrator using the ForwardingAddress attribute), through mailbox Inbox rules, or…

When a new user is added to a Microsoft 365 universal group, they automatically receive a standard welcome e-mail message with the following subject: You’ve joined the <M365_Group_Name> group Welcome…

The Azure Active Directory password policy defines the password requirements for tenant users, including password complexity, length, password expiration, account lockout settings, and some other parameters. In this article, we’ll…

Within your Exchange organization or Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) tenant, you can create hundreds of Distribution Groups (Distribution Lists, DLs). Distribution lists that are no longer in use should be…

Microsoft recently released a new WebView2-based version of MS Teams for Windows. The switch from the Electron engine to WebView2 runtime has significantly improved the performance of Teams (almost doubled)…

An Exchange mailbox can be assigned a number of additional SMTP addresses, which are known as proxy addresses (aliases). These addresses allow the user to receive e-mails that are sent…

Plus addressing (sometimes called subaddressing) allows you to use unique dynamic SMTP e-mail addresses for your mailbox. It is typically used to protect against spam, track marketing companies, and categorize…