Category: Updates and Fixes

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Update to the Get-UserHoldPolicies tool

While working with a customer last week, it came to my attention that the Get-UserHoldPolicies script I had put together to enumerate retention policies and eDiscovery cases that put a hold on content wasn’t displaying policies that were global.  The types of policies I checked for were enumerated in a user’s InPlaceHolds mailbox property, but apparently, that field is populated only if a Security & Compliance retention policy explicitly specifies the mailbox.… [ Continue reading ]

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Update to the AAD Connect Advanced Permissions tool

Two updates for the tool in a week?  Yes! It is so!

At the behest of my good friend Darryl and one of his customer’s needs, I have updated the the AAD Connect Advanced Permissions tool with the following:

  • Allow the underscore (“_”) character to be used in an OU name path
  • Allow CN= to be used as part of the OU filter name path, since some organizations may want to try to scope permissions specifically to CN=Users.
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Update to the Office 365 Proxy PAC Tool

I have updated the Office 365 Proxy PAC tool to allow selection of the US Department of Defense XML feed for proxy bypass configurations.

You can see previous updates for the tool:

Update to the Office 365 Proxy PAC tool

Updates to Office 365 Proxy PAC Generator

And of course, the updated tool is available on the TechNet Gallery, with a couple of other bugfixes that some people reported (invalid characters/smart quotes appeared in some versions of the file, which have been corrected): https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Office-365-Proxy-Pac-60fb28f7… [ Continue reading ]

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Update to Advanced AAD Connect Permissions tool

Since its initial creation, I’ve made a few updates to the Advanced AAD Connect permissions tool.  The most recent updates:

  • 2017-10-11 – delegating write permissions to the CN=adminSDHolder,CN=System container
  • 2017-10-05 – delegating write permissions to the ms-DS-ConsistencyGuid property

These two updates should allow for a more complete AAD Connect permissions delegation experience. … [ Continue reading ]

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Update to the Office 365 Proxy PAC tool

The people have spoken.

I’ve updated the tool with a couple of features:

  • Include the Skype for Business IP ranges in the proxy bypass list, since there are occasions that it is necessary.
  • Added an option for *all* IP ranges in the XML feed for selected products to be added to the proxy bypass list
  • Added an option for *only* IP ranges in the XML feed for selected products to be added to the proxy bypass list
  • Added an option to export the IP ranges for selected products to a separate text file.
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