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During a conversation with my peers, the discussion came up on how to determine what environment a tenant is located in (usually between Commercial and Government). Typically, the easiest way to determine this is to look at your account SKUs. … [ Continue reading ]
As luck would have it, I have one more update to deliver today.
One of my peers (shout out to Mike Manning) noticed that when using the ExportImport-CalendarProcessing tool, mailbox objects that have some special characters in them don’t get processed correctly on the import function. … [ Continue reading ]
Yesterday, while working with a customer, I was asked if there is a way to programmatically add OneDrive locations to an existing retention policy. Say, for example, you have a blanket retention policy that covers all of your tenant at a base level (which is what I typically recommend to ensure you at least have either belt or suspenders), but then you have a second set of users that need a longer policy.… [ Continue reading ]
While working through an issue with a customer today, we needed to add some OneDrive sites to a retention policy. No problem! Except for the part where no one has a list of OneDrive sites and the user interface doesn’t let you search or browse for them.… [ Continue reading ]
This feature is an “oldie but goodie” that my customers are starting to ask questions about as they start looking into ways to automate their Office 365 deployments.
Can I sync additional attributes to Office 365, and can I use them for Group-Based Licensing?… [ Continue reading ]
This week, I was working on a project that spawned a lot of ideas for posts. The project involves creating a wrapper for a number of cmdlets and being able to pass any / all of the parameters to the actual cmdlet being performed. … [ Continue reading ]
I was shocked to discover that I hadn’t updated the OneDrive for Business Admin Tool since January. Shocked that I hadn’t had any good ideas for it. Shocked, I tell you.
And then, a requirement presented itself for a tenant-to-tenant migration: how big are all of the OneDrive sites?… [ Continue reading ]
It’s Two-fer Friday. I don’t know if it was a thing, but it is now.
Based on received feedback, I have updated the AAD Connect Advanced Permissions tool to check for the Active Directory schema version in addition to the Exchange schema. … [ Continue reading ]
Just a quick note: I’ve updated the AAD Connect Network Test Tool to now query Windows Product Edition data to provide a little more system configuration prerequisite testing information, based on the OperatingSystemSKU data listed at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/CIMWin32Prov/win32-operatingsystem.… [ Continue reading ]
Yes, Hell has frozen over. The cows have come home. The lady of size has sung.
I have come up with a “best case” solution for the Office 365 hybrid group write-back problem.
For the long(er) background, you’ll probably want to go see this post.… [ Continue reading ]
Four score and many moons ago, I was working on one of my first projects in Microsoft Consulting Services. This particular customer (a university) shared their Active Directory infrastructure with a hospital. During the course of their business, employees would frequently move between organizations. … [ Continue reading ]
Today, I received an email from a customer that one of the scripts I had in the gallery wasn’t working correctly. Yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but I made an update and didn’t regression test completely, and then something stopped working.… [ Continue reading ]
This week, while working with one of my customers in a custom Office 365 deployment, I had the opportunity to revisit and update one of my scripts (Remove Proxy Addresses via AAD Connect). I had originally built that script for a large state government Office 365 migration from BPOS-D. … [ Continue reading ]
After 4 glorious years of TechNet blogging, I am moving. The TN blog system is changing, and I’m striking out on my own.
My blog is all growed up. You can go see any of your favorite posts at the new site: https://www.undocumented-features.com.… [ Continue reading ]
A few weeks ago, I put out a series of posts on creating and using custom sensitive information types (https://www.undocumented-features.com/tag/sensitive-information-types/). The blog, posts, however, focus on using the DLP configuration options available in the Security & Compliance Center.… [ Continue reading ]
So, of course, as soon as I finish up posting a few entries (here and here), we go and release a new UI to help you get it done on your own!
You can do most of the effort of creating a data classification here, although if you want to use any of our built in functions (such as credit card Luhn check), you’ll need to export/modify/import, use the sensitive information type package that I created (referenced earlier) or use one of our native DLP classifications.… [ Continue reading ]
Woo! A day of updates! I’ve made a few updates to this tool, so hopefully you’ll find them useful:
2018-08-12: A reader noticed that the UpdateAdminSDHolder switch didn’t work ask expected when specifying the ExchangeHybridWriteBack OU without the ExchangeHybridWriteBackOUs parameter. … [ Continue reading ]
Over the course of your Office 365 administration duties, you may be called to locate data matching particular data patterns (such as matching a particular regular expression or a Sensitive Information Type), either for eDiscovery or data classification purposes. … [ Continue reading ]
UPDATE: The TechNet Gallery link for this post has been updated.
So, this is an entry that has been long in the making. I have had several customers over the last few years give feedback about our Data Loss Prevention’s (DLP) matching requirements, mostly around how they require too much corroborating evidence (in the form of patterns or keywords) to meet their organization’s very restrictive policies.… [ Continue reading ]
This week, while contributing code to a collaborative project, I wanted to up my game. A lot of my tools over the years have used parameters and validation, but one of the more elusive things is creating parameters that have parameter validation criteria set at run-time. … [ Continue reading ]