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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/carbonbase.html" rel="ugc">carbonbase</a>,<br><br>Are you creating the user account in on-premises Active Directory and then adding a license to the user in the cloud, or is this a 100% pure cloud only identity?<br><br>If it is an on-premises AD user that is synced to the cloud, there is a community script that was written that can send the email as part of the new account creation process, reference is here: <a href="https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3188-office-365-user-creation" rel="ugc">https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3188-office-365-user-creation</a>&nbsp;
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Apart from automating a "welcome" script, you might also consider informing your users when new functionality is rolled out, or simply remind them about some features exist. There's a built-in "wizard" as part of the O365 Admin portal that lets you do that:&nbsp;<a href="https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/iwwizard" rel="ugc nofollow">https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/iwwizard</a>&nbsp;<br><br><a href="https://regarding365.com/using-the-office-365-adoption-wizard-11ee055fb160" rel="ugc">https://regarding365.com/using-the-office-365-adoption-wizard-11ee055fb160</a>
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Thanks Saif, my users are created in our on-premise AD and synced to the cloud. &nbsp;At the moment we have a separate process for that which is part of our HR process. &nbsp;I'm not sure that script is right for me, as all I want to do is sent a welcome email to new or recently created mailboxes.<br><br>I would like to know how best to run a script like the example I gave so that it runs regularly, at least once or twice a day. &nbsp;Thanks.
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Once you create the script you can use task scheduler on exchange server to run it daily. Here is an example of scheduling exchange scripts.<br><br><a href="https://blog.ahasayen.com/schedule-powershell-exchange-script/" rel="ugc">https://blog.ahasayen.com/schedule-powershell-exchange-script/</a><br><br><a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23150.how-to-use-task-scheduler-for-exchange-scripts.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23150.how-to-use-task-scheduler-for-exchange-scripts.aspx</a><br><br><br>
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These look like examples for scheduling scripts against on-prem Exchange, we are running hybrid, but our user mailboxes are in Exchange Online
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Since you are in hybrid and mailboxes will be created in exchange online you can follow below article for scheduling in O365 using O365 powershell.<br><br><a href="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/32656.office-365-how-to-schedule-a-script-using-task-scheduler.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/32656.office-365-how-to-schedule-a-script-using-task-scheduler.aspx</a>
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Hi I've been searching online for a script to send a welcome email to newly created user mailboxes. &nbsp;I've found this script:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/12Knocksinna/Office365itpros/blob/master/SendWelcomeEmail.PS1" rel="ugc">https://github.com/12Knocksinna/Office365itpros/blob/master/SendWelcomeEmail.PS1</a><br><br>Just wondering how best to run it in an automated way. &nbsp;It prompts for login details every time the script is run and errors with "You must call Connect-ExchangeOnline before call any other cmdlet"<br><br>Ideally I'd like the script to run each time a mailbox is created, but failing that at least twice a day. &nbsp;Is this the best approach? &nbsp;I've had a brief look at Azure functions as a possible alternative way of doing this but it's not clear to me whether that would be a viable option. Thanks.
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Hi I've been searching online for a script to send a welcome email to newly created user mailboxes.  I've found this script:
https://github.com/12Knocksinna/Office365itpros/blob/master/SendWelcomeEmail.PS1
Just wondering how best to run it in an automated way.  It prompts for login details every time the script is run and errors with "You must call Connect-ExchangeOnline before call any other cmdlet"
Ideally I'd like the script to run each time a mailbox is created, but failing that at least twice a day.  Is this the best approach?  I've had a brief look at Azure functions as a possible alternative way of doing this but it's not clear to me whether that would be a viable option. Thanks.

How to send a welcome email to new mailboxes

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.