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title: Exchange Online – You can now manage the recipient limits - cubesys
description: For those working with Exchange and Exchange Online, you already know the recipient limits setting used to restrict the number of recipient a user can send a single message.You are also already aware that Exchange Online has (or had if read below) a hard coded limit set to 500 recipients…
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# [Exchange Online – You can now manage the recipient limits - cubesys](https://www.cubesys.com.au/blog/exchange-online-you-can-now-manage-the-recipient-limits)

 Written by [cubesys](https://www.cubesys.com.au/blog/author/cubesys) | Feb 19, 2020 1:00:00 PM

For those working with Exchange and Exchange Online, you already know the recipient limits setting used to restrict the number of recipient a user can send a single message.

You are also already aware that Exchange Online has (or had if read below) a hard coded limit set to **500** recipients for all mailboxes.

Well good news, as Exchange Online Administrator you now have the agility to define your own recipient limit for your users – from **1 to 1000** recipients per single message.

You can apply your own limits to either one or a group of existing mailboxes and update your Exchange Online plan to apply the limit when a new mailbox is created.

To do such thing you need to use **Exchange Online PowerShell** or **Exchange Admin Center**

> Connect-EXOPSSession
> 
> Then for one mailbox
> 
> Set-Mailbox <mailbox> –RecipientLimits <custom limit>
> 
> Update the mailbox plan
> 
> Get-MailboxPlan | Set-MailboxPlan –RecipientLimits <custom limit>

From the Exchange Admin Center classic ([https://outlook.office.com/ecp/](https://outlook.office.com/ecp/)), you can only edit the limit for **one** mailbox at a time.

Access the mailbox properties and then the mailbox **features** and **mailflow**

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From the Exchange Admin Center new experience ([https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/#/mailboxes](https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/#/mailboxes)), you can **bulk** edit

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