Microsoft Office 365 Administration

Our Microsoft Office 365 Administration tips have been tested in real-world business environments and can be used to achieve the objectives listed below.

PowerShell – Connect to Exchnage

Open PowerShell (Admin).
Copy and paste all of the commands below, at once, paste into PowerShell and execute.

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -force

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

Import-PSSession $Session

Calendaring

Open Another User’s Mailbox Using Outlook Web Access (OWA)

Sign into Office 365 (Outlook Web Access)
Click the drop-down menu, under the user’s name and click Open Another Mailbox
Enter a portion of the user’s username and click Search Contacts & Directory **Keep adding to or changing the user’s username until the search returns the desired account
Click Open

How to Unshare a Calendar

You can change the permissions you’ve set for a calendar, or revoke them completely, by going to the calendar navigation pane at the side and using the context menu for the calendar name under My calendars.

Right-click the calendar you want to unshare. Or, if you’re using a touch device, touch and hold the calendar name.
Select Permissions.
To stop sharing your calendar with a person, find the person you want to change permissions for and either choose a new level of permissions or select the delete icon to remove their permissions.To stop sharing your calendar publicly, change the Public calendar setting to Not shared.
Select Save to save your changes, or Cancel to undo them.

When you delete a person from the list of people you’ve shared your calendar with, the URL that was sent to them will stop working. When you set your Public calendar to Not shared, the associated URLs that were created when you shared your calendar will stop working.

Corporate Calendar Implementation

Configure the Public Folder Environment

Launch the Office 365 Admin Console
Browse to the Exchange Admin Center
Choose Public Folders
Public Folder Mailboxes > Create
Name the new Public Folder Mailbox: Public Folder Mailbox
Public Folders > Create
Name the new Public Folder: Public Folder
Edit the new Public Folder > Assign Owner permissions to a company administrator
Edit the new Public Folder > Assign default (Publishing Editor) permissions to all other users

Corporate Calendar Implementation

Launch Microsoft Outlook
Browse to Folders
Expand All Public Folders
Right-click on the Root Public Folder (created above) > New Folder
Give the calendar a name and choose “Calendar Items”
Right-click on the calendar and choose Properties
Assign the desirable permissions

Add the Calendar to Microsoft Outlook

Launch Microsoft Outlook
Browse to Folders
Expand All Public Folders
Expand the Public Folders
Right-click on the corporate calendar > Add to Favorites
Create a desirable “Favorite Folder Name” (e.g. Favorite Public Folders)
Click Add

Microsoft Office 365 Administration

PowerShell – Connect to Exchnage

Calendaring

Open Another User’s Mailbox Using Outlook Web Access (OWA)

How to Unshare a Calendar

Corporate Calendar Implementation

Configure the Public Folder Environment

Corporate Calendar Implementation

Add the Calendar to Microsoft Outlook

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