Restore Softdeleted O365 Mail box

In this Blog we will see how to Restore an Soft Deleted Mail box in O365


Connect to Office 365 using below powershell commands 

$UserCredential = Get-Credential 

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

Import-PSSession $Session

Command To List all the Soft Deleted Mailboxs.

Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox | Select DisplayName,ExchangeGuid,PrimarySmtpAddress,ArchiveStatus,DistinguishedName

Below command to export all the Soft Deleted mail boxes to an Excel

Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox | Select DisplayName,ExchangeGuid,PrimarySmtpAddress,ArchiveStatus,DistinguishedName | Export-Csv c:\Softdeleted.csv

From the above command identify the mail box which we are trying to restore and copy the ExchangeGUID

$SoftMailbox = Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox <Exchagne GUID>

Mail Box Move request 

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceMailbox $SoftMailbox.DistinguishedName -TargetMailbox <Enter Traget mailbox where to restore mail@contoso.com> –AllowLegacyDNMismatch

To check the Restore Progress 

Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -Identity mail@contoso.com

To get the progress in Percentage Complete 

Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics -Identity mail@contoso.com



Hope this help any one trying to restore Softdeleted mailboxes

Enabling litigation hold on O365

Enabling Litigation hold for O365 users

There are multiple ways to give access to an users who left organization

1) Place mail box in Litigation Hold
2) Convert to Shared mail box.

What is litigation Hold?

Place a mailbox on Litigation Hold to preserve all mailbox content, including deleted items and original versions of modified items. When you place a mailbox on Litigation Hold, the user's archive mailbox (if it's enabled) is also placed on hold. Deleted and modified items are preserved for a specified period or until you remove the mailbox from Litigation Hold.

when you place an Mail box in Litigation hold the mail will be preserved in X amount of days, we can give the mail box access to any person who has re-placed him in the organization.

all these mail boxes will be listed in the Inactive mail boxes and can we and can be attached to respective users who required access to the mails

Below are the commands to place the mail boxes in litigation hold

Connect to O365 power shell before executing below commands

To place an user to Litigation hold

The below command will place an particular mail box under litigation hold for 10 Years

Set-Mailbox ramesh@contoso.com -LitigationHoldEnabled $true -LitigationHoldDuration 3665

The Below command will place mail box under litigation hold for indifinate years

Set-Mailbox ramesh@contoso.com -LitigationHoldEnabled

Enable Litigation hold for all the O365 users

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter {RecipientTypeDetails -eq "UserMailbox"} | Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $true -LitigationHoldDuration 3665

Enable Litigation hold for only not enabled users

Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.LitigationHoldEnabled -match "False"} | ForEach-Object {

$Identity = $_.alias; Set-Mailbox -Identity $Identity -LitigationHoldEnabled $True } 

Convert to Shared mail box

Once the users lefts the organization we can convert his mail box to an Shared mail box and we can retain the License, for shared mail boxes license is not required.
the mail box can be given access to the respective users for the left user's historical mail for compliance purpose   

Set-Mailbox -Identity <MailboxIdentity> -Type Shared

Set-Mailbox -Identity ramesh@contoso.com -Type Shared

Unable to Load Azure active directory power shell Module

Unable to Load Azure active directory power shell Module

When i try to launch Azure Active Directory module it was keep on saying that unable to load the module

 
Checked my Machine configuration by using $PSVersionTable 

Below is my machine configuration 

Name                                             Value
----                                                 -----
CLRVersion                                     2.0.50727.5485
BuildVersion                                   6.1.7601.17514
PSVersion                                       2.0
WSManStackVersion                      2.0
PSCompatibleVersions                   1.0, 2.0
SerializationVersion                        1.1.0.1
PSRemotingProtocolVersion           2.1

My Machine has winrm 2.0 in order to load the azure active directory power module to work we required 

windows management framework 3.0 here is the link to download WMF 3.0  

once the windows management framework 3.0 got installed on my machine Azure active directly power shell got connected with out any issues

Hope this helps any one who are having issues to load the azure active directly power shell.