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On the recommendation of my good friend Darryl, I’ve added some things to my AAD Connect permissions tool:
Over the past several months, I’ve slowly been adding features to the OneDrive for Business Admin Tool (you can read about the previous updates and features here, here, and here). Earlier this week, one of my peers asked if I knew of an easy way for a customer to search OneDrive for Business sites and delete all files of a certain type (say, video files).… [ Continue reading ]
Picking up where I left off on part 1 of this post, I wanted go into what it would take to refine some roles for managing eDiscovery for larger organizations.
In this scenario, we’re going to:
If you didn’t read the previous blog post on this topic, I’d encourage you to go back and do so, since I’m going to continue using the same users and compliance filters.… [ Continue reading ]
UPDATE: [11/20/2018] I had an error in the transport rule configuration in the last example, as well as a note that a TR would NDR external traffic. I have this post accordingly.
We’re all familiar with how Office 365 tenants work–when you spin up a new Office 365 tenant, you get a managed domain (tenant.onmicrosoft.com). … [ Continue reading ]
This week, I was presented with a question from a partner who was in the middle of the Skype for Business portion of a larger merger and acquisition migration project. The customer had enabled the Skype for Business license for all users in the tenant (including users who hadn’t migrated for other domains and forests), and since neither the hybrid configuration nor DNS were complete, messages and calls were undeliverable. … [ Continue reading ]
UPDATE: This tool has been updated to include implicit policies created in the Security and Compliance Center.
Last week, I was asked by a few people for information on displaying holds applied to mailboxes.
Holds come in several varieties:
When viewed programmatically from PowerShell, you’ll notice that In-Place Holds and Retention Policies are somewhat inverse relationships like the legacy MRM policies–that is, the various policies in the Security & Compliance Center don’t have lists of objects applied to them. … [ Continue reading ]
While working with a partner this weekend on a tenant to tenant migration, we had the need to migrate Office 365 groups. There’s not really a lot of information around on recreating groups and memberships, so I decided to put together a tool to help the effort.… [ Continue reading ]
Earlier today, I was asked to make an update to my script to wipe Exchange Online mailboxes to include Archive Mailboxes. Fortunately, it ended up being much easier than I anticipated:
When I enumerated the mailbox originally, I used:
$Root = [Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.Folder]::Bind($service,… [ Continue reading ]
Recently, I had a requirement come up to enable the bulk restore of content from a OneDrive for Business site in the event of a cryptoware or ransomware attack. OneDrive has versioning turned on, so I figured this would be an “easy” add. … [ Continue reading ]
Since its initial creation, I’ve made a few updates to the Advanced AAD Connect permissions tool. The most recent updates:
These two updates should allow for a more complete AAD Connect permissions delegation experience. … [ Continue reading ]
In light of the discovery that a recent comprise involved administrator credentials that were not protected with multi-factor authentication, I thought revisiting http://securescore.office.com might be a good idea.
For the uninitiated, Secure Score is a tool that we provide to examine some configuration items and give guidance on others in respect to creating a more secure operating environment for your Office 365 tenant. … [ Continue reading ]
This week, I received an email from a colleague asking if there was a way to work around the default behavior described in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnectsync-implement-password-synchronization:
Password expiration policy
If a user is in the scope of password synchronization, the cloud account password is set to Never Expire.… [ Continue reading ]
Update: I’ve also added some new features, detailed in https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.com/2017/10/16/recovering-from-crypto-or-ransomware-attacks-with-the-onedrive-for-business-admin-tool/.
While updating a script I wrote to remove the “Shared with Everyone” folder in OneDrive for business, it dawned on me that there are a number of bulk management tasks for OneDrive that are not easy to do, that we don’t have specific guidance on, or only have little bits of information scattered around the interwebs.… [ Continue reading ]
Updated with additional requirements and scenarios, 2017-10-26.
I recently worked with a customer that needed assistance in configuring the additional permissions required for AAD Connect delegation. After chasing down an incredible number of prerequisite information, I decided it would be more helpful to my customer to put together a tool that would help them configure the various permissions delegations.… [ Continue reading ]
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 ]