Category: Configuration

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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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Update to Create-LabUsers Script

My colleague Andreas asked today for some help troubleshooting an issue he’d run into with the Create-LabUsers script failing while using the InflateMailboxes parameter.

The problem ended up being three-fold:

  • I had some pre-populated user names that had spaces in them
  • I hadn’t trimmed the spaces out when constructing the SMTP address (although I had for the UPN)
  • I didn’t test for a valid RFC sender address when constructing the mail

So, all of those things together conspired to generate errors whenever some of those user names were hit. … [ Continue reading ]

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Apply Security & Compliance Center Retention Labels to Outlook Folders

I couldn’t really come up with a cool-sounding title for this post, so I just went with the basics of what it does.

Last week, I worked with a customer that wanted to deploy custom retention labels to custom folders inside a user’s mailbox–the idea being that they would create a custom folder structure such as this under a user’s Inbox:

\Inbox
\Inbox\Retention Schedule
\Inbox\Retention Schedule\2 Year (apply a 2-year retention label to everything in this folder)
\Inbox\Retention Schedule\4 Year (apply a 4-year retention label to everything in this folder)
\Inbox\Retention Schedule\7 Year (apply a 7-year retention label to everything in this folder)
\Inbox\Retention Schedule\Forever (apply a ‘Never delete’ retention label to everything in this folder)

Seems easy enough, right? … [ Continue reading ]

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Update to OneDrive for Business Admin tool

Based on some user feedback, I’ve made the following modifications to the OneDrive for Business Admin Tool:

  • Fixed a reference to the original function name for FolderToDelete
  • Added verbiage referencing the -Confirm parameter when using FolderToDelete parameter
  • Tidied up code indentations to make it more readable

I’ve got some additional feedback that I will incorporate as well (once I figure out how to do it).… [ Continue reading ]

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Cloud UPNs for AAD Connect users with Alt-ID don’t update after domain verified in tenant

A few weeks ago, I ran into an issue with a customer.  Scenario:

  • Customer had configured alternate-id sign in with AAD Connect (the gist is that it flows on-premises mail to cloud UPN)
  • Synced identity to tenant
  • Tenant did not have any verified domains

As expected, without a matching verified domain in the tenant, UPN suffixes in the tenant were actually set as @tenant.onmicrosoft.com. … [ Continue reading ]

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Adopting OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business is, from my perspective, one of the most under-utilized but benefit-rich parts of the Office 365 platform, allowing organizations (especially organizations that subscribe to the E3 or higher SKU) virtually unlimited storage, versioning, and recovery capability for their file-based storage.… [ Continue reading ]

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DLP for Bitcoin Addresses

One of the up-and-coming combination phish-ransom attacks is to trick the mark into thinking that you’ve got access to their data, and then get them to send money to a Bitcoin address to protect them from data leakage.  You can create a DLP rule in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center (or an Exchange Online transport rule) to try to combat this.… [ Continue reading ]