How to manage Exchange Attributes in Office365 using PowerShell

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Problem:

You are not able to manage Exchange Attributes 1-15 (custom attributes) in Office 365.

Solution:

You can use PowerShell to change Exchange Attributes in your Office 365 organization. Please follow these steps:

1. Connect to your Office 365 using PowerShell. See this article to learn more.
2. After establishing connection to your Office 365, please run this command in PowerShell:

   Set-Mailbox UserAlias -CustomAttributeX 'TypeValue' 

   where:

   • UserAlias - is the mailbox alias of the user for whom you want to set an Exchange Attribute,
   • X in CustomAttributeX -  replace X with a number from 1 to 15 to select an attribute that will be updated,
   • TypeValue - here, type the value that you want to set for the selected Exchange Attribute.

3. Disconnect from your Office 365. See this article to learn how to do this.