Groups is a new collaboration feature within Exchange Online that is now live on at least some tenants. I have “First Release” turned on for my Office 365 tenant, and I now have Groups available so I figure that means I am free to talk about what this new feature is and what it does.
Read moreChanging user logon domain in Office 365
When syncing your users to your Office 365 tenant via DirSync there are a number of reason that their login ID and primary SMTP address can end up being set to @tenant.onmicrosoft.com. Maybe you started DirSync before the domain was accepted in Office 365, or maybe your users UPNs are set to something other than the domain name you want to use as their primary SMTP address. Whatever the reason, once users are synced and end up with the wrong login ID, it can be a pain to change them especially for a large number of users. One way to fix that problem is with the following PowerShell command run after you connect to Azure AD via the Azure AD module.
Read moreManaging Office 365 licenses with PowerShell
In my never ending quest to make Office 365 migrations as simple as possible for myself, I have written a PowerShell script that should make Office 365 license management easier. Version 1.0 of Manage-Office365Licenses is available on the TechNet Gallery. My goal with this script is to provide a simple interface that will assist administrators in bulk assigning Office 365 licenses to user accounts.
Read moreOutlook update causing security warning for Office 365 users
Last night I received the follow email from a customer…
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My week at the Connections Conference
I just wrapped up a week at the IT/Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas. Connections is the premier conference covering Microsoft technology from a 3rd party perspective.
Read moreAzure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AAD Sync) now available
While Microsoft has designed Office 365 and Exchange Online to support all kinds of organizations, until today there has still been a big hole in the offering for organizations that have multiple on-premises Active Directory forests. With the release of Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services Microsoft has now filled that hole and made it possible for many more organizations to make the move to Office 365.
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Moving an Exchange Online mailbox from a AAD account to a DirSync account
Recently I has a customer who suffered a bit of an on-premises outage after moving to Office 365. At the time of the outage the customer was using ADFS and DirSync for their Exchange Online mailboxes, and they ended up losing ADFS and DirSync.
Read moreIf “the cloud” fails it will be because of governments
I try to stay fairly apolitical in this space. That is generally not too difficult because my personal politics tend to be fairly close to “If it’s coming from a professional politician it’s a bad idea and maybe even a dangerously bad idea.”, so I don’t really have a “side” on most political arguments.
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Coming Soon: Portland Office 365 Users Group
Office 365 user groups are the new thing, so I figure the good people of Portland need to get in on this trend. I’ve started working on organizing a quarterly meeting of the Portland Office 365 user group, and I’m here today to announce my plans and ask for your assistance and participation.
Read moreUninstalling DirSync
One of Microsoft’s main feature claims for DirSync is that it has an appliance like setup. I have probably installed 100 DirSync servers, and can confirm that the install process for DirSync is as appliance like as it gets. The process of uninstalling DirSync is, however, nowhere near appliance like
Read moreAzure Active Directory Connect: Solving a problem or adding to one?
Enterprise deployments are complicated. When you add “cloud” services to enterprise deployments, they become much more complicated. I think we can consider those two statements axiomatic at this point. If we want to add a third axiom to the list, saying that people want simple solutions would fit the bill. Microsoft knows all three of these things, and bless their little hearts they really do try to make things as simple as they can. I have no doubt what-so-ever that their hearts are in the right place, but sometimes that is not enough.
Read moreGet-EDSData v3
The new phonebook is here!
OK maybe you don’t need to be that excited about this version of my Get-EDSData script. I have just completed rewriting this script to work off a CSV file instead of using parameters for input. This means that you can create a csv file with a list of as many performance counters as you’d like and then run Get-EDSData against that csv file to find out if those performance counters went over the thresholds you sent during the period of time you have Daily Performance Logs on your Exchange 2013 server.
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