Microsoft 365 administrators can convert a regular mailbox to a shared mailbox so that more than one user can access it. Users associated with the shared mailbox will be able to access all the emails and calendar entries. That makes teamwork easier. Also, there are situations where a shared mailbox is to be converted to a user mailbox.
Here, we will discuss the conversion of the regular mailbox to a shared mailbox. Also, we will show how to convert a shared mailbox back to a regular mailbox.
NOTE: The user mailbox that you need to convert to a shared mailbox must have assigned a license (without a license, the option for conversion will not be available). After conversion, you can remove the license as you don’t need a license for a shared mailbox if it holds data up to 50 GB only. To store more than 50 GB of data, you must have a license assigned to the mailbox.
Rules remain as it is even after the mailbox is converted to the shared mailbox.
To convert a regular mailbox to a shared mailbox, follow the given simple steps:
Users must connect to the Exchange Online PowerShell first using the following procedure.
A dialogue box asking to enter Microsoft 365 account credentials will get open. Provide the global administrator credentials and click on OK.
Wait for the connection to be established.
Note: Users must be a member of the Recipient Management or Organization Management Role group to run the above command.
We will now move to see how a shared mailbox can be converted to a regular mailbox in Microsoft 365.
One can convert a shared mailbox to a regular mailbox easily by following the steps:
Note: The Exchange Online PowerShell command syntax to convert back a shared user mailbox to a regular mailbox is.
Microsoft 365, the most popular cloud email server nowadays, supports both regular and shared mailboxes. We have discussed how to convert regular and shared mailboxes to the other type in Microsoft 365. Also, we have an automatic solution to backup and restore your Microsoft 365 mailboxes to Outlook PST. Kernel Office 365 Backup and Restore software allows its users to backup Microsoft 365 mailboxes (shared, archive, regular) to Outlook PST file and also restore Outlook PST data to Microsoft 365. It allows to migrate only specific data with filters like date, item type, etc. It also moves Microsoft 365 groups. The data remains well secured and integrated during the whole migration.
I don’t have an option to convert the mailbox to a shared mailbox. The only option I see is Edit Exchange properties. Is that because I’m synced with Active Directory?
Kindly ensure that the user mailbox you want to convert is licensed.
I was using basic essential plan previously and now when some user left, the steps mention here helps me to convert that user’s mailbox to share so simply. I am so delighted to do the required things by following your blog. Thanks