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A consultant friend of mine posed an interesting question to me this week–one of his customers wanted to be able to let his users administer a cloud-managed Office 365 distribution group by uploading a CSV or Excel spreadsheet. From an administration perspective, I have done an incredible amount of directory management tasks using CSVs, so this didn’t seem like that difficult of a task.… [ Continue reading ]
The people have spoken.
I’ve updated the tool with a couple of features:
Recently, a customer asked for clarification on the difference between Content Search (Security & Compliance center | Search & investigation | Content search) and the Content Search feature in an eDiscovery case (Security & Compliance center | Search & investigation | eDiscovery). … [ Continue reading ]
From time to time, you may find that you need to selectively filter out users going to Office 365. The easiest way to do it is with a scoping filter. We do have some documents on setting the cloudFiltered attribute in the metaverse to True, but that requires creating new rules. … [ Continue reading ]
Update: I posted roll-back steps at the bottom of the article.
Several months ago, I wrote a blog on Disabling Office 365 Groups. It seems as though we couldn’t leave well enough alone. Such is a price of progress.
I got a new laptop a few weeks ago, and then found myself in the position of helping out a few colleagues this week. … [ Continue reading ]
This afternoon, I ran into a customer with a very interesting configuration–a 300-user department with 15 domain controllers spread among 6 sites.
Which, given our guidance in the past didn’t seem that out of line (redundant domain controllers at each site to process logons).… [ Continue reading ]
I find myself currently writing tools to both support my and other organization projects, as well as looking for ways to refine existing tools and scripts, make my life easier for future migrations, and provide additional resources to the community to help other customers more successfully use our products.… [ Continue reading ]
UPDATE: The final script has been relocated to the PowerShell Gallery: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExportImport-CalendarProcessing/5.1
During my current project, it became necessary to capture additional calendar processing parameters that are not preserved during a normal hybrid move–such as booking policies.
Some of the challenges that I faced in customer environments when writing this tool:
The first thoughts I have when building a tool generally involve four concepts:
A few months ago, I developed a script/tool to use for a rather large customer divesting from an Office 365 Dedicated environment. As part of the exit, they wanted a contact object in their GAL for every user, contact, and distribution list that existed in the source Office 365 environment.… [ Continue reading ]
Today, I saw a question come up as to how to block a message when it’s sent to two different groups of users at the same time. Let’s say you want to be able to send to John@domain1.com, Bob@domain2.com, and Jane@domain3.com… [ Continue reading ]
I wrote the original Proxy PAC tool for a customer almost a year ago, and since have added a lot of new functionality. Rather than updating my previous blog posts about it, I thought I would start a fresh thread. If you want some background on how Proxy PAC files work and how to distribute them to your users via GPO or WPAD, I would suggest taking a look at my posts dealing with those topics:
Update: There are new cmdlets available for this task. This blog is for historical reference only. A new, updated process is available here (https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.com/2017/04/29/disable-office-365-groups-creation-redux/).
Office 365 Groups are a (somewhat) new feature that act both like a distribution list and a public folder or shared mailbox. … [ Continue reading ]
I saw an interesting question floating around a discussion alias earlier today–how to return different IP addresses for the same hostname from different DNS servers for users that are in different regions (for example, have DNS servers on the east coast return “1.2.3.4” for my.domain.com… [ Continue reading ]
During migrations from third-party platforms like Gmail or various POP3 providers or from hosted Exchange environments, we frequently see customers provisioning remote mailboxes for shared resources.
This works fine for three out of four recipient types. You can run New-RemoteMailbox for a regular user or specify a Type (Room or Equipment) to get the appropriate mailboxes. … [ Continue reading ]
I’ve been involved in a lot of Exchange migrations over the years, to and from all sorts of different environments.
On a current engagement, I had to export a ton of cloud-managed distribution lists and their members from Office 365 / Exchange Online Dedicated and import them into Office 365 Multitenant. … [ Continue reading ]