hands-on lab

Managing User Mailbox Email Addresses Using Exchange Online PowerShell

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 45 minutes
Students: 65
Rating: 5/5

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Description

Exchange Online PowerShell lets you manage your Exchange Online mailboxes from the command line. The Exchange Online PowerShell module lets you easily amend mailbox email addresses. Users may often need multiple email addresses associated with their account to receive emails sent to a different email address.

In this lab, you will add and remove email addresses on a user's Exchange Online mailbox using Exchange Online PowerShell.

Note: Due to this lab requiring the use of a Microsoft 365 organization with an Admin Center, if you don't already have access to one you will need to provide a mobile phone number to pass the account creation process.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:

  • Add and remove email addresses on a user's Exchange Online mailbox

Intended Audience

  • Microsoft 365 System Administrators interested in scripting to automate and speed up the management of user mailboxes in Microsoft 365
  • IT Support Analysts  

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following is recommended:

  • Microsoft 365 Admin Center

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

 

Covered topics

Lab steps

Setting Up A Microsoft 365 Developer Account
Connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell
Adding and Removing Email Addresses to User Mailboxes