Hello all,
Running into a bit of an issue while trying to set up a shared mailbox. I am interested in Delegation and Send as / shared mailboxes. I asked the person in chat on Microsoft 365 what I needed to experiment and see if this will work for me:
Shared Email box with archiving capability
2 practice user accounts, no AD required but web versions of word etc would be nice
I explained I wanted the two user accounts to be able to read and send as the shared email box account. Based on my desires it was suggested I go with:
Exchange Online (Plan 2) (For the archiving capability, plus they said for a shared mailbox to have archiving it MUST be Plan 2)
For the two user accounts they suggested either (Small Business P1) or (Midsize Business E2)
They advised I go the E2 route since I could never convert a P Plan without cancelling first. However I will never need subsites or AD support etc so P1 plan saves me $8 per user per month.
I had issues with OWA displaying properly the first week but that has since been resolved thankfully, so I thought I would sit down and get this "send as" working. I was blown away it all has to be done by cli through Powershell but oh well.
I get Powershell going and use the following steps to convert my Exchange Online (Plan 2) mailbox to the shared mailbox:
I follow this guide: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/quick-reference-card-RZ103029526.aspx?section=7&mode=print
As per the directions I made the distribution group first. I added the main exchange account, plus the two P1 accounts as External Contacts.
****NOTE**** I clicked the box to "Make this group a security group", however I can not see it here:
Maybe that is a separate issue though.
Anyway, after creating the distribution group I continue to follow the guide except instead of CREATING a shared mailbox I used the convert command like so:
Set-mailbox <user mailbox> -Type Shared
Everything seemed to go great, the icon of the mailbox changed to show it was now a shared box:
So now I went to give send as permissions to the distribution group. When I added in the "Add-MailboxPermission" line I got red errors, and have received red errors from that point on. Now I can NOT even establish a connection anymore, even though it worked fine prior to this event.
The error is highly lacking as well, no specific code to research etc just this:
Having to do this all cli is not the most enjoyable thing, but I do it all the time with Linux so no big, but a clear cut error message or error code would be nice lol
Thanks folks,
Scott