Author: Aaron Guilmette

Helping companies conquer inferior technology since 1997. I spend my time developing and implementing technology solutions so people can spend less time with technology. Specialties: Active Directory and Exchange consulting and deployment, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Office 365, datacenter migration/consolidation, cheese.
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Configure Teams to Co-exist with Google Workspace

With the rise of remote work over the past several weeks (now turned months and years), I’ve engaged with many customers who want to use Microsoft Teams to as part of their work-from-home tool set.  Many of my customers have investments in both Microsoft Office 365 as well as Google G Suite Workspace or Google Apps (frequently with other third-party IdP, metadirectory, and federation services thrown in the mix), so it’s not always just as easy as “flipping a switch.”… [ Continue reading ]

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Office 365 Security & Compliance Center eDiscovery – Part 4: Learning NEAR and ONEAR

This is the fourth in a series of posts focusing on helping you get the most out of Office 365 Content Search and eDiscovery.

Intro

Over the posts in this series, I’m going to go over the following concepts:

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Office 365 Security & Compliance Center eDiscovery – Part 3: Phrases and Grouping AND OR’ing (Oh, my!)

This is the third in a series of posts focusing on helping you get the most out of Office 365 Content Search and eDiscovery.

Intro

Over the posts in this series, I’m going to go over the following concepts:

… [ Continue reading ]
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Office 365 Security & Compliance Center eDiscovery – Part 2: Condition Cards: Sender, Recipients, & Participants and Content Types

This is the second in a series of posts focusing on helping you get the most out of Office 365 Content Search and eDiscovery.

Intro

Over the posts in this series, I’m going to go over the following concepts:

… [ Continue reading ]
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Flashback to what it took to do math in DOS batch files

While working on a script for an upcoming project, I wanted to test for the presence of various Office versions, including 32-bit and 64-bit components before initiating setup. Here’s one way I found:

@ECHO OFF
SET CURRLOCATION32="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16"
SET CURRLOCATION64="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16"
SET PREV1LOCATION32="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office15"
SET PREV1LOCATION64="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office15"
SET PREV2LOCATION32="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office14"
SET PREV2LOCATION64="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office14"

REM Check for 64-bit versions
IF EXIST ""%CURRLOCATION64%\MANIFEST.XML""
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