About Site Mailbox
Site Mailbox in SharePoint Online is a mail-enabled document library,
which is a central email and document sharing account that is accessed
from a SharePoint site.
Real-Time Scenario
You can create a site mailbox in your SharePoint Team site and you can
use it to gather relevant team-level email conversations for tracking a
team project or maintain support history etc. Since, it can be accessed
from Outlook client for team email, it helps to quickly store
attachments and retrieve documents from the team site. Also members of
team site can share important documents securely by using a site
mailbox.
Agenda
Once a site mailbox is set up for your SharePoint site, a new email
account is created and email address of the site mailbox will auto
generated, which uses the name of your site.
For example – if your team site URL is –
http://company.sharepoint.com/TeamSite, then the PrimarySmtpAddress for
that site’s site mailbox will be SMO-TeamSite@company.onmicrosoft.com.
So it naturally becomes the responsibility for the administrators to
personalize the PrimarySmtpAdress. So in this blog we share the steps
for the same.
PowerShell script to change Site Mailbox PrimarySmtpAddress
Since there is no option available in user interface to change the
PrimarySmtpAddress of the site mailbox, we are left only with PowerShell
method. In this example, I have created a site mailbox in my SharePoint
Team site with SharePoint Team site name – > “SupportTeam” and site
mailbox -> SMO- SupportTeam@company.onmicrosoft.com My requirement
is to modify the PrimarySmtpAddress of my site mailbox from
SMO-SupportTeam@company.onmicrosoft.com
toSupportTeam@company.onmicrosoft.com
Following are the steps to achieve the above requirement,
Before proceeding to modify the PrimarySmtpAddress of site mailbox, let
me get the list of SharePoint sites with Site Mailbox using the
PowerShell command as follows,
Get-SiteMailbox | select DisplayName, PrimarySmtpAddress
Where,
DisplayName – Denotes SharePoint Site name
PrimarySmtpAddress – Denotes PrimarySmtpAdress of Site Mailbox of the
corresponding SharePoint Site
Now it’s time to modify the PrimarySmtpAddress of site mailbox of
SharePoint site – “SupportTeam”
Steps involved to achieve this
- Get the SharePoint sitename and store it in the variable –
$sitename. - Get the new Site Mailbox PrimarySmtpAddress and store it in the
variable – $newprimarysmtpaddress. - Change your Site Mailbox’s PrimarySmtpAddress using PowerShell
command ‘Set-Mailbox’.
$sitename="SupportTeam"
$newprimarysmtpaddress="SupportTeam@company.onmicrosoft.com"
Set-Mailbox $sitename –EmailAddresses SMTP:$newprimarysmtpaddress
Finally to ensure new PrimarySmtpAddress applied to site mailbox of the
SharePoint site, use the PowerShell command as follows,
Get-SiteMailbox $sitename | select DisplayName, PrimarySmtpAddress
