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Office365Powershell

Disabling IMAP and POP Enabled for Mailboxes in Office365 Using Powershell V2 Module

I recently wrote about Microsoft’s new Powershell V2 Module and locating IMAP and POP enabled mailboxes using it. Now we’re going to get to disabling IMAP and POP to keep things secure! As of the date of this post (January, 2020) there are no new V2 modules to Set-CASMailbox, so we’ll have to use a V1 command. This will disable IMAP and POP across the tenant:

Get-EXOCASMailbox -Filter {IMAPEnabled -eq $True -or POPEnabled -eq $True} | Set-CASMailbox -ImapEnabled $false -PopEnabled $false

If you’d like to see a list of who will have the settings applied, you can add -whatif to the end

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Locating IMAP and POP Enabled from Mailboxes in Office365 Using Powershell V2 Module

Using Microsoft’s recently released Exchange Online PowerShell V2 Module, we can easily find IMAP and POP from mailboxes in Office365 via Powershell.

Finding IMAP and POP Mailboxes, Powershell V2: 

Get-EXOCASMailbox -Filter {IMAPEnabled -eq $True -or POPEnabled -eq $True}

If you’d like to disable, take a look at my next post about doing that!

Office365Powershell

Using Microsoft’s New Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module

Microsoft recently released a preview of their new Exchange Online Powershell module. One of the highlights is that it has built-in support for MFA-enabled admin accounts. One of my biggest pet peeves was that Microsoft made you jump through hoops and poorly supported MFA with their V1 module.

To get started, install the module from the Powershell gallery via

Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement

Note only Powershell 5 is supported, with Powershell Core and 7 support coming… soon.

The commands have changed too. Get-Mailbox is still able to be run, but the new command is Get-EXOMailbox, which yields output more efficiently then its predecessor according to Microsoft, by changing what properties get shown and not including blank properties.

You can now connect via “Connect-ExchangeOnline” which creates an MFA-capable prompt. After you sign-in, you’re shown the new cmdlets!