Migrating Hybrid Public Folders to Office 365

Update: Shameless plug: I’ve written more extensively about public folder migrations from both the 2007/2010 and 2013/2016 perspectives in the book, “Office 365 Administration: Inside Out,” available at http://aka.ms/thebookonit.

So, tonight I started the last phase of one of my longest-running projects since joining Microsoft–an Exchange Online migration for a school district that I began nearly a year and a half ago. … [ Continue reading ]

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

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.

This error is generated because the MailUser object of the user you’re attempting to migrate has a proxy address attached to it that is NOT an accepted domain in your target organization or tenant.… [ Continue reading ]

Migrating EOP Settings Between Tenants

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 ]

Fix those IMCEAEX NDRs

I had a customer migrate some mailboxes a few weeks ago, and they’re now just getting some NDRs.  Here’s a sample NDR:

imceaex-1

To fix this, you can take the NDR that you receive, copy/paste it into this function, and then take the resultant decoded x500 address and add it back to the proxyAddress array for the recipient.… [ Continue reading ]