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Using the Office365/Exchange 2016 REST API in Powershell Contacts

Within a Mailbox from an API perspective the big 3 things you deal with are first Messaging, second Calendaring and then Contacts. Up until now I've had just some basic support for Contacts in the Exch-Rest module https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Exch-Rest but from version 3.4 I've add lot more cmdlets to fill out this functionally. I've taken a guide from my EWSContacts Module and taken advantage of some of the new stuff you can do with the Graph API which was hard or not possible in EWS like getting Mail Enabled Contacts (AD Contacts). I've added a documentation page with Examples on GitHub for most of the new cmdlets  https://github.com/gscales/Exch-Rest/blob/master/Samples/ContactsExamples.md To give a little taste of what you can do with these new cmldets Creating Contacts The New-EXRContact cmdlet can be used to create a contact in any mailbox specifying the most common properties New-EXRContact -MailboxName mec@datarumble.com -First

EWS-FAI Module for browsing and updating Exchange Folder Associated Items from PowerShell

Folder Associated Items are hidden Items in Exchange Mailbox folders that are commonly used to hold configuration settings for various Mailbox Clients and services that use Mailboxes. Some common examples of FAI's are Categories,OWA Signatures and WorkHours there is some more detailed documentation in the https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc463899(v=exchg.80).aspx protocol document. In EWS these configuration items can be accessed via the UserConfiguration operation https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dd899439(v=exchg.150).aspx which will give you access to either the RoamingDictionary, XMLStream or BinaryStream data properties that holds the configuration depending on what type of FAI data is being stored. I've written a number of scripts over the years that target particular FAI's (eg this one that reads the workhours  http://gsexdev.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/finding-timezone-being-used-in-mailbox.html is a good example ) but I didn't have a gene
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