“Office 365 brings Shared Mailboxes that allow users interact with a common Inbox and Calendar. The following site describes how these are made, licensing and other ins-and-outs such as setting Litigation Hold and delegating control to users:
Although following these steps will probably create the wrong primary SMTP address.
Other situations, such as multiple domains in the one Office 365 tenant, will more than likely raise the need for several Shared Mailboxes in different domains.
When creating the Shared Mailbox specify the -PrimarySmtpAddress, below is an example: New-Mailbox -Name “Shared Mailbox” -Alias sharedmbx -Shared -PrimarySmtpAddress SharedMbx@DOMAIN.COM
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Following up my previous post on Connecting powershell to Office 365, here’s why. I needed to create a shared mailbox for multiple people to have access to. Here’s how it’s done(Thumbs up to Microsoft for the great documentation):
“Create and configure a shared mailbox
After you create a shared mailbox, you have to assign permissions to all users who require access to the shared mailbox. Users can’t sign in to the shared mailbox. They have to sign in to their own mailbox and then open the shared mailbox to which they’ve been assigned permissions.
Here’s how to create and configure a shared mailbox for the Corporate Printing Services department at Contoso Corporation.
Create a shared mailbox To create the shared mailbox for Corporate Printing Services, run one of the following commands:Office 365
The new shared mailbox is displayed in the Mailboxes list in the Exchange Control Panel.
Create a security group for the users who need access to the shared mailbox In the Exchange Control Panel, create a security group for the staff who need access to the shared mailbox for Corporate Printing Services.
Select My Organization > Users & Groups > Distribution Groups > New.
Specify a display name, alias, and e-mail address. In this example, we’ll use Printing Services Staff, corpprintDG, and corpprintDG@contoso.com.
Select the Make this group a security group check box.
In the Ownership section, click Add to add an owner, if necessary.
In the Membership section, click Add.
In the Select Members page, select the users you want to add. When you are finished, click OK.
On the New Group page, click Save. Note After you create a security group, the membership is closed. When membership is closed, only group owners can add members to the security group, or owners have to approve requests to join the group. Additionally, only group owners can remove members from the security group.
Assign the security group the FullAccess permission to access the shared mailbox To enable members of the Printing Services Staff security group to open the shared mailbox, read e-mail, and use the calendar, run the following command:
Assign the security group the SendAs permission to the shared mailbox To enable members of the Printing Services Staff security group to send e-mail from the shared mailbox, run the following command:
Let users know how to open the shared mailbox using Outlook Web App. Point them to this topic: Open Another Mailbox
Let users know they can view and use the calendar in the shared mailbox. Each user can schedule events or enter their vacation or out-of-office time.
By default, security-enabled distribution groups are displayed in the shared address book. However, you may not want users to send e-mail to this type of group because its purpose is to assign permissions to a shared mailbox. To help prevent users from sending e-mail to a security-enabled distribution group, you can hide it from the shared address book.
To hide a group, just select it in the Groups list, click Details, and select the Hide this group from the shared address book check box.
Alternatively, you can restrict who can send messages to the group. For example, you can allow only members to send messages to the group. To do this, configure the Delivery Management section on the group’s properties page. See Change Distribution Group Properties.”
Found the need for this today as we’re switching over to Office 365 and I had to use the power shell to create a Shared Mailbox that multiple people can access. Step 1 was connecting the powershell to Office 365 as show below.
“Connect Windows PowerShell on your local computer to the cloud-based service
Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows PowerShell > Windows PowerShell.
Run the following command:
$LiveCred = Get-Credential
In the Windows PowerShell Credential Request window that opens, type the credentials of an account in your cloud-based organization. When you are finished, click OK.
Note The AllowRedirection parameter enables cloud-based organizations in datacenters all over the world to connect Windows PowerShell to the cloud-based service by using the same URL.
Run the following command:
Import-PSSession $Session
A progress indicator appears that shows the importing of commands used in the cloud-based service into the client-side session of your local computer. When this process is complete, you can run these commands.
Disconnect Windows PowerShell from the cloud-based service
When you’re finished using the server-side session, always disconnect Windows PowerShell by running the following command:
Remove-PSSession <session variable>
For example, to disconnect from the server-side session that is defined by the $Session variable, run the following command:
Remove-PSSession $Session
Important If you close the Windows PowerShell window without disconnecting from the server-side session, your connection will remain open for 15 minutes. Your account can only have three connections to the server-side session at one time.”
IIS 7 was difficult for figuring out why i was getting the 401 – Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials… until i did this…
1.) Open iis and select the website that is causing the 401
2.) Open the “Authentication” property under the “IIS” header
3.) Click the “Windows Authentication” item and click “Providers”
4.) For me the issue was that Negotiate was above NTLM. I assume that there was some kind of handshake going on behind the scenes, but i was never really authenticated. I moved the NTLM to the top most spot, and BAM that fixed it.”
For us I had to enable Forms Authentication on step 3.
select rl.UserID,rm.RewardType,sum(rl.RewardPoints) from rewardslog rl
join rewardsmaster rm on rl.RewardID = rm.Id
where rl.UserID=’varsha’
group by rm.RewardType, rl.UserID
To this:
var q = from i in (from rl in context.rewardslog
join rm in rewardsmaster on rl.RewardID equals rm.Id
where rl.UserID == “varsha”
select new {rl.UserID, rm.RewardType, rl.RewardPoints})
group i by new {i.RewardType, i.UserID} into g
select new {g.Key.UserID, g.Key.RewardType, Points = g.Sum(rl => rl.RewardPoints)};
You’ll quickly learn that if you use background images in powerpoint, when you go to print to PDF, the background image gets a white border around it. It took me a while to figure out how to get the PPTX to properly display the background, so I thought I’d share it.
Step 1: Your preview will look like this:
Step 2: Go into the PDF printer properties and set the “Adobe PDF Page Size” to “Slide 7.5 x 10″ as shown here:
Step 3: Your preview will now look correct as such:
Found this in an old email from a friend of mine. Its a community website where developers can upload code samples for work they’ve done on microsoft’s various development platforms. Worth checking out, you will find some cool samples to use up there. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/
Was clicking around the internet as I tend to do sometimes and ran into this site that has JQuery extensions for the ASP.NET MVC. You can download from codeplex here. Here’s what they say:
“DJME – The jQuery extensions for ASP.NET MVC is a lightweight framework which helps you build rich user interfaces for ASP.NET MVC while enjoying great developer productivity.
“Auto-detecting the browser language for culture-sensitive formatting New in 2.0
The language list can be used to determine which culture the user most likely prefers for formatting of numbers, dates and times. ASP.NET v2.0 now provides functionality to easily detect the first language in the list and use this for formatting:
<%@ Page Culture="auto:en-US" %>
If the first language in the list matches the name of a specific culture supported by the .NET Framework, ASP.NET will set the CurrentCulture of the running thread to this culture. This happens early in the page life cycle so that all subsequent culture-sensitive formatting will be done with this culture.
If the first language in the list matches the name of a neutral culture supported by the .NET Framework, ASP.NET will try to use the function CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture() to create a specific culture for the purpose of formatting. For example, this would map fr into the culture for French (France). However, this determination could be inappropriate for somebody in the French-speaking part of Canada, which is why an application should provide the means to configure both culture and language – more on this personalization in the localization section.
If the first language in the list isn’t a culture supported by the .NET Framework, ASP.NET will fall back to the culture specified after the colon in the Culture declaration. This would be en-US – English (United States) in the example above.
This auto-detection functionality can be used in all places where Culture can be specified declaratively, such as in the globalization section of web.config. The auto-detection works the same for UICulture, which is used for localization and is explained later.
The following sample demonstrates a Currency Exchange Calculator that reacts to different language settings in the browser (see above for information how to change this). It will display the date in the format appropriate for the first language in the list and also uses the correct decimal separator for the exchange values. Furthermore, this decimal separator can be used for the entry of the value to be converted.
Culture-sensitive date and number formatting (VB)
In order to view text in some East Asian languages and some languages with complex scripts, you might need to install the appropriate font for Internet Explorer. Refer to Internet Explorer Help Topics for more information (see in the index under “foreign languages used in Web pages”). Alternatively you can install additional fonts from the Regional and Language Options of the Control Panel.
This sample will not display dates in the correct reading order for right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew. See the second and third sample in the Localization section for information on how to handle this case.”
