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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 ]
I meant to post this earlier, but I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve had the great honor of being able to write a book with some of the titans of Microsoft Consulting Services.  The book has all new content for Office 365 based on our experience in the field, and even features current service release updates. … [ Continue reading ]
The people have spoken.
I’ve updated the tool with a couple of features:
A while ago, I wrote about a script that I had built for creating BitTitan MigrationWiz connectors with the parameters necessary to do bulk resource mapping. This worked pretty well, until I downloaded the newest version of the PowerShell module when I had to do it for a customer that was already partway through their migration.… [ Continue reading ]
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 ]
This past week has seen the widespread growth of the WannaCry ransomware attack, which was based on the EternalBlue SMB vulnerability. We released security update MS17-010 on March 14, 2017 to address the vulnerability.
Preliminary reports show at least 300,000 computers have been affected globally by this ransomware that encrypts files, requiring up to $600 in bitcoin payments within 7 days before the data is deleted.… [ Continue reading ]
I’ve been working on a little project, and the need to retrieve the last n number of commands I’ve executed in PowerShell has become a tedious task. As you’re (hopefully) aware, Get-History is a great cmdlet to review exactly how you got to where you are. … [ 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Let’s say you’re in one of the following scenarios: