When is assigns first.last2@domain.com and eventually first.last@domain.com will the email address policy assign the now available address or does the fact that is now has an @domain.com address prevent this?

my ideas like %g.%s.%s@xxx. com dont work!

Please Help Me 😉

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Import-Csv “C:\MP\hide.csv” | foreach {$_.id; set-remotemailbox -identity $_.ID -HiddenFromAddressListsEnable:$true}
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This will display to screen the job is active and server is not locked up or anything like that and the transcript will capture the action.

If you need proof then you need to write script logic that checks the value, attempts the change, catches errors, validates the outcome, logs all that to something you can look at later, etc.

That’s all possible in PowerShell, it’s just not build in to the cmdlets themselves. You need to write the script logic to wrap around the task.

Thanks again Paul. That would be too easy – tried that. Blank 1k file – but it does make the file. Interesting that somethings in powershell show the results and some don’t (as this example). What am trying to do I get complete blank results displayed although the command does work – just need the proof for change control and backout purposes.

Yes. Look at how to pipe output to the PowerShell Out-File cmdlet. You may need to use -Append to get the result you want.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/out-file?view=powershell-6

Thanks Paul – verbose works but generates a lot of “background” information rather than scroll the user list. Can a switch be added to send the results to a file ?

Some cmdlets support the use of the -Verbose switch, and will output more information when running. Not all of them though.

If Set-Mailbox doesn’t show anything when you use -Verbose you would just need to write a script that outputs what you want to see instead.