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AAD Connect Phone/Fax Mappings

Yesterday, while working with my colleague Michael Anderson, I needed to investigate where a particular on-premises value was being synced in AAD.  The result is this table:

AD Property Get-MsolUser Get-AzureADUser Get-User Get-CSOnlineUser
Friendly name ldapDisplayName
Telephone number telephoneNumber PhoneNumber TelephoneNumber Phone Phone
Pager pager – – Pager –
Mobile mobile MobilePhone – Fax MobilePhone
Fax facsimileTelephoneNumber Fax FacsimileTelephoneNumber Fax Fax
IP Phone ipPhone – – – IPPhone
Home homePhone – – HomePhone HomePhone
{otherMobile} {AlternateMobilePhones} – – –
{otherIpPhone} – – – –
{otherHomePhone} – – {OtherHomePhone} –
{otherFacsimileTelphoneNumber} – – {OtherFax} –
{otherPager} – – – –
{otherTelephone} – – {OtherTelephone} {OtherTelephone}

It’s important to note that values displayed in braces { } are multivalued attributes, so if there’s something stored in one on-premises that you need or want to map to a a different attribute in Azure AD, you’ll need to either map it to another multivalued attribute or extract the value so you can write it to a single-valued string attribute. … [ Continue reading ]

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MS-301 is Off to the Press!

At long last! I’m super stoked to announce that I just approved the cover artwork for my upcoming MS-301 certification prep book.  It’s all done but the crying!

Speaking of crying, there is a bit of sadness–we (somewhat unexpectedly, to me) announced the retirement of the MS-301 exam last month. … [ Continue reading ]

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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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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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