February 2017 – Undocumented Features

Identity

Testing AD FS for Office 365 without Directory Synchronization

Posted on February 22, 2017January 23, 2019
by Aaron Guilmette

Let’s say you’re in one of the following scenarios:

You need to set up AD FS for a shared hosting environment and won’t have any identities synchronized from the forest where AD FS will be deployed and want to verify that the AD FS infrastructure is working.

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Migrating

Troubleshooting Mailbox Migration Error “You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization.”

Posted on February 15, 2017
by Aaron Guilmette

While migrating users via MRS between organizations (especially to Exchange Online), a pretty common error that I run across is:

You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization.… [ Continue reading ]

Scripting

Removing Proxy Addresses from Exchange Recipients

Posted on February 10, 2017September 12, 2018
by Aaron Guilmette

This script and the accompanying post have been updated.

I saw a request come through the other day for a method to remove unwanted proxy addresses for contacts. I’d had some code sitting around from a project a few years back and decided to freshen it up, and maybe add some newer tricks.… [ Continue reading ]

Identity

PingProvisioningServiceEndPoint error when configuring AAD Connect

Posted on February 8, 2017
by Aaron Guilmette

This afternoon, while configuring AAD Connect for a customer, I ran into a new error when I clicked Install at the end of the installation wizard:

An error occurred executing Configure AAD Sync task: Unexpected exception thrown. Action: PingProvisioningServiceEndPoint, Exception: An error occurred.

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