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:

remove-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin $LiveCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential "administrator@campus.edu", (ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force) $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -WarningAction SilentlyContinue import-pssession $Session

Scripting Live at Edu Account creation

The thing about automated account creation is that I have never thought it would save that much time. Creating a dozen or so accounts a day is not very time consuming. When i created a script that would automate it for me, I realized I would never want to go back. When my school wanted to move to Live @ Edu, I did not want to manually create them. I explored the possibility of using Identity LifeCycle Manager, but wound up just including the email account creation inside my AD account creation script.

Creating an account on Live@Edu requires three things.
1.) Password
2.) Windowsliveid (also the email)
3.) Name (also called the displayname)

So i define these variables and a few more in the main script, and call upon a second script to do the actual work. My second script:

{"connect to live @ edu and create mailbox"} remove-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin $LiveCred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential "administrator@campus.edu", (ConvertTo-SecureString "your password" -AsPlainText -Force $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -WarningAction SilentlyContinue import-pssession $Session new-mailbox -name $Display -windowsliveid $liveid -Password $password -firstname $firstname -lastname $lastname remove-pssession $Session
As you can see, I define
$Display (which is lastname, firstname),
$liveid,
$password (which must be converted to securestring)
$firstname
$lastname

Connecting and disconnecting after each user will add quite a bit of time that your script needs to run, but it works great. Also keep in mind that you must put your administrative windows live id and password in plain text in the script, so it would be a good idea to keep it locked down.