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Joshua Widup
Jan 24, 2017Brass Contributor
Phantom Office 365 Mailboxes
Hey everybody - quick overview of what's going on... Hybrid On-Prem with Office 365. We have mail users (ie: contacts) in the system that do not have mailboxes on-prem or in Office 365. They ha...
VasilMichev
Jan 24, 2017MVP
What does Get-Recipient show for one of these? I'm not in front of a PC to test this atm, but it definitely sounds interesting. Open a support ticket if you can reproduce it.
Joshua Widup
Jan 24, 2017Brass Contributor
Just checked and they are recipienttype=MailUser if I do get-recipient. I'm going to test with another tenant and see if I can do the same - if so - support ticket time. (I would love to know if anybody else is seeing this)
- Joshua WidupJan 24, 2017Brass Contributor
Yep - validated in a 2nd tenant - mailuser has mailbox in OWA - no license, no get-mailbox results.
- Jan 24, 2017This is the same behaviour I have seen in a tenant where I have a SPO license, but not a EXO one and I was able to create a Team and access to a kind of mailbox...able to send from the mailbox but not able to reply
- Joshua WidupJan 24, 2017Brass Contributor
Hey Juan - that would lead me to believe that there's a feature in the service that "needs" a mailbox but isn't really creating one but making a phantom anchor of sorts. I'll see if support has some clear answers