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PowerShell - Office 365 Create Rule for Existing Emails

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PowerShell - Office 365 Create Rule for Existing Emails

Summary

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Background

  • OP requested for moving emails from INBOX to folders.
  • Exchange environment is on cloud.

Solution

NOPE!!! It's not possible Refer this Exchange Forum Post for more information It's not possible to achieve this using PowerShell. However some third party tools may do this by consuming EWS and I haven't tried any. Let's see the method to create and enable rule in Office 365 Exchange

Connect to Exchange Online

Import-Module MSOnline
$O365Cred = Get-Credential 'Admin@Domain.onmicrosoft.com'
$O365Session = New-PSSession â€“ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell `
-Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $O365Session
Connect-MsolService â€“Credential $O365Cred

Explore Command

Get-Command -Name '*Inbox*'

Create Rule

New-InboxRule -Name Test -Mailbox 'MailBoxID' -From 'SomeMailID' -MoveToFolder 'MailBox:\Test' -Verbose

Enable Rule

Enable-InboxRule -Mailbox 'MailBoxID' -Identity 'RuleID' -Verbose

Explore Parameters

Help New-InboxRule -Parameter Name

Help New-InboxRule -Parameter MoveToFolder

Help Enable-InboxRule -Parameter RuleID

Outcome