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It’s pretty obvious that our Get-MITUser cmdlet isn’t yet as visually usable as Microsoft’s cmdlets. You can always modify the formatting of a cmdlet by piping it to a Format-* command. First of all this is inconvenient to have to do each time, but also the output of this isn’t your original object but an entirely different formatting object. You can no longer operate on it as an object. For example try obtaining the DisplayName from an object that has been formatted – it won’t work.

In Part 4, we created our basic Get-MITUser function, which accepts a single $Identity parameter, and will obtain both the MsolUser and Mailbox (assuming they exist). Now it’s time to test with some real fake data – in particular we…
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At this point we are able to build our basic function that can obtain the MsolUser and Mailbox from a single Identity parameter. First, let’s put our code from parts 2 and 3 into functions, add some Debug output, and…
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In the previous part, we explored how we can handle the errors from Get-MsolUser as part of our larger Get-MITUser function. We would hope we could handle Get-Mailbox in the same way.

So a big part of our all-in-one Get-User cmdlet Get-MITUser, is that it needs to try obtaining both the MsolUser from Office 365, and the Mailbox from Exchange Online. Imagine this first as a manual process with “john@example.com”. It would…
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Every Exchange administrator has probably faced this scenario at least a few times:  You have an email address, and need to find out – who does it belong to? Back when Exchange was new to you, you probably started by…
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