Exchange Online PowerShell: Resolving error – Get-OwaMailboxPolicy: The term ‘Get-OwaMailboxPolicy’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!

Today new issue and resolution 🙂

Details

• I want to see the mail box policies in my tenant
• To get the Outlook web mail box policies I am using Exchange PowerShell – Get-OwaMailboxPolicy
• While executing the “Get-OwaMailboxPolicy” PowerShell CMDLET I am getting an error

Error / Issue

Get-OwaMailboxPolicy: The term ‘Get-OwaMailboxPolicy’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Solution

• Make sure “ExchangeOnlineManagement” PowerShell module is installed.
• We can make sure by executing the CMDLET – Get-Module as

PS C:\> Get-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -ListAvailable

    Directory: C:\Users\u1086350\Documents\PowerShell\Modules

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                PSEdition ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                --------- ----------------
Script     3.8.0                 ExchangeOnlineManagement            Desk      {Add-VivaModuleFeaturePolicy, Add-VivaO…

• If “Exchange Online” PowerShell module is not installed, we can install “Exchange Online” PowerShell module by executing “Install-Module” PowerShell CMDLET as

Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -Force

• Once we have successfully installed PowerShell module “ExchangeOnlineManagement“, try importing the module using “Import-Module” PowerShell CMDLET

Import-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -Force

• As we install and import “Exchange Online” PowerShell module successfully, make sure we are connecting to “Exchange Online” by executing the PowerShell CMDLET – “Connect-ExchangeOnline”

Connect-ExchangeOnline

• After successfully connecting to “Exchange Online“, we are successfully capable of executing the “Get-OwaMailboxPolicy” cmdlet

PS C:\> Get-OwaMailboxPolicy

WacEditingEnabled                                    : True
PrintWithoutDownloadEnabled                          : True
OneDriveAttachmentsEnabled                           : True
ThirdPartyFileProvidersEnabled                       : False
AdditionalStorageProvidersAvailable                  : True
ClassicAttachmentsEnabled                            : True
ReferenceAttachmentsEnabled                          : True
SaveAttachmentsToCloudEnabled                        : True
InternalSPMySiteHostURL                              :
ExternalSPMySiteHostURL                              :
ExternalImageProxyEnabled                            : True
NpsSurveysEnabled                                    : True
MessagePreviewsDisabled                              : False
PersonalAccountCalendarsEnabled                      : True
TeamsnapCalendarsEnabled                             : True
BookingsMailboxCreationEnabled                       : True
BookingsMailboxDomain                                :
ProjectMocaEnabled                                   : False
DirectFileAccessOnPublicComputersEnabled             : True
DirectFileAccessOnPrivateComputersEnabled            : True
WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPublicComputersEnabled      : True
WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPrivateComputersEnabled     : True
ForceWebReadyDocumentViewingFirstOnPublicComputers   : False
ForceWebReadyDocumentViewingFirstOnPrivateComputers  : False
WacViewingOnPublicComputersEnabled                   : True
WacViewingOnPrivateComputersEnabled                  : True
ForceWacViewingFirstOnPublicComputers                : False
ForceWacViewingFirstOnPrivateComputers               : False
ActionForUnknownFileAndMIMETypes                     : Allow
WebReadyFileTypes                                    : {.xlsx, .pptx, .docx, .xls…}
WebReadyMimeTypes                                    : {application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.pr
                                                       esentation, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordpr
                                                       ocessingml.document, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocume
                                                       nt.spreadsheetml.sheet, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint…}
WebReadyDocumentViewingForAllSupportedTypes          : True
WebReadyDocumentViewingSupportedMimeTypes            : {application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel,
                                                       application/x-msexcel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint…}
WebReadyDocumentViewingSupportedFileTypes            : {.doc, .dot, .rtf, .xls…}
AllowedFileTypes                                     : {.rpmsg, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb…}
AllowedMimeTypes                                     : {image/jpeg, image/png, image/gif, image/bmp}
ForceSaveFileTypes                                   : {.vsmacros, .ps2xml, .ps1xml, .mshxml…}
ForceSaveMimeTypes                                   : {Application/x-shockwave-flash, Application/octet-stream,
                                                       Application/futuresplash, Application/x-director…}

REFERENCES

• Get-OwaMailboxPolicy – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/get-owamailboxpolicy?view=exchange-ps
• PowerShell – Exploring Module CMDLETs – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/12/12/__trashed-2/
• PowerShell Modules / CMDLETs – Connecting to Microsoft 365 Services – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/06/09/powershell-connecting-to-microsoft-365-services/

Thanks for reading!!!

HAVE A FANTASTIC TIME AHEAD !!! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂