Monday, June 11, 2012

Changing the primary SMTP address of Live at Edu Users

Have a name change to a student and need to change their primary email address? Unfortunately you will be unable to do that through the Web based management. You will have to use powershell to connect to your live at edu system run the following command

"set-mailbox user@campus.edu -windowsliveid newuser@campus.edu"

You can also do this to change campus.edu to a different campus. When this change is made the primary smtp address will be added as a secondary smtp address, so the recipient will still receive mail on that address. The WindowsLiveID will be changed, and they will need to log in using the new one. Need help connecting your powershell to Microsoft's? Use the following code:

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