Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

Outlook and OWA allow you to create "Favorites" shortcuts to Public folders (and other folders for that matter) to make accessing them a faster experience. For those of us keeping pace with grinding Public Folders into dust (personally no longer a fan) and replacing them with Groups, it maybe useful to report on which Public Folders people have Favorited in their mailboxes for a metric and impact point of view. This information should then come in useful if your planing on migrating them (or just for a laugh). Because Public folder hierarchies are relatively complex having the path to the Public folder rather then just the name is generally a lot more useful. So in the script in this blog post we will look at producing a report of the Public Folder favorites and the Path of the Public Folders those shortcuts refer to eg it will produce a report something like the following for each mailbox you where to run it against. Like other mailbox shortcuts these favorites ar...

This is a continuance of my Office365/Exchange 2016 Rest series, in this post I'll be showing how some of the new GUI elements in the Exch-Rest module can help improve the speed and usability of any scripts where you need to browse Mailbox folders. What this modification to the Module does is allows you to enumerate all the Mail Folders in a Mailbox using the REST API and then present a simple folder tree that then allows you to browse through the folder in a Mailbox you might be looking for and when you double click that folder it will then return that as an object that can be piped into further operations. eg the new cmdlet works like Invoke-MailFolderPicker -MailboxName gscales@datarumble.com -AccessToken $AccessToken and visually this is what it looks like I have one extra feature I've added into the module that allows you to return the same folder tree as above with the folder sizes in MB. To do this you need to make sure of the Extended Property ( PR_MESSAGE_SIZE...