How to Turn Off Focused Inbox in Outlook Office 365 Using PowerShell

Turn Focused Inbox On or Off in your organization

You use PowerShell to turn Focused Inbox on or off for everyone in your organization

To turn off Focused Inbox:

The following PowerShell example turns Focused Inbox Off in your organization. However, it doesn’t block the availability of the feature for your users. If they want, they can still re-enable Focused Inbox again on each of their clients.

1. Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell.

2. Run the Get-OrganizationConfig cmdletLook for FocusedInboxOn to view its current setting:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-OrganizationConfig

-------
FocusedInboxOn                                            : True                 

Run the following cmdlet to turn Focused Inbox off. 

Set-OrganizationConfig -FocusedInboxOn $false

Run the Get-OrganizationConfig cmdlet again and you’ll see that FocusedInboxOn is set to $false, which means it’s been turned off.

To turn on Focused Inbox:

run the following cmdlet to turn Focused Inbox on

Set-OrganizationConfig -FocusedInboxOn $true

Turn Focused Inbox On or Off for specific users

Run the Get-FocusedInbox cmdlet, for example

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-FocusedInbox -Identity [email protected]

MailboxIdentity              : tonny
FocusedInboxOn               : True
FocusedInboxOnLastUpdateTime : 8/3/2022 2:55:47 PM
Identity                     :
IsValid                      : True
ObjectState                  : New

Run the following cmdlet to turn off Focused Inbox:

Set-FocusedInbox -Identity [email protected] -FocusedInboxOn $false

OR, run the following cmdlet to turn it on:

Set-FocusedInbox -Identity [email protected] -FocusedInboxOn $true