{"id":39,"date":"2011-02-19T03:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T22:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:51:05","slug":"pop3-with-microsoft-online-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/pop3-with-microsoft-online-services\/","title":{"rendered":"POP3 with Microsoft Online Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using <strong>Microsoft Online Services<\/strong> and for any user if you want to enable <strong>POP3<\/strong> to access emails (for wxample in case they are using any mail client other than Microsoft Outlook) &#8211; you will find difficult to move. By default in <strong>Microsoft Online Services<\/strong> both in <strong>Exchange Online Standard<\/strong> and <strong>BPOS<\/strong> &#8211; the POP 3 is disabled.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>How to enable POP3 with Microsoft Online Services \/ BPOS?<\/h2>\n<p>To enable you have to either raise a Service request with Microsoft or you can use Powershell to make the changes yourself. Using Powershell will require admin credentials. Here are some simple Powershell commands to enable the POP3 in Microsoft Online Services<\/p>\n<h3>Enable POP using Powershell<\/h3>\n<p>Get the admin credentials<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>$AdminCreds = Get-Credential<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>To enable POP 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enable-MSOnlinePOPAccess -Identity [-Quite] -Credential<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Here replace the full email id of your user in place of .<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To disable POP 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Disable-MSOnlinePOPAccess -Identity [-Quite] -Credential<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>POP3 access was one of the common need which can now be addressed\u00c2\u00a0without\u00c2\u00a0contacting Microsoft Online Support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using Microsoft Online Services and for any user if you want to enable POP3 to access emails (for wxample in case they are using any mail client other than Microsoft Outlook) &#8211; you will find difficult to move. By default in Microsoft Online Services both in Exchange Online Standard and BPOS &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[122,48,49],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-online-services","tag-microsoft-online-services","tag-pop3","tag-powershell","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhruvsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}