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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 ]
This script and the accompanying post have been updated.
I saw a request come through the other day for a method to remove unwanted proxy addresses for contacts. I’d had some code sitting around from a project a few years back and decided to freshen it up, and maybe add some newer tricks.… [ Continue reading ]
This afternoon, while configuring AAD Connect for a customer, I ran into a new error when I clicked Install at the end of the installation wizard:
An error occurred executing Configure AAD Sync task: Unexpected exception thrown. Action: PingProvisioningServiceEndPoint, Exception: An error occurred.… [ Continue reading ]
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 ]
UPDATE: The final script has been relocated to the PowerShell Gallery: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/ExportImport-CalendarProcessing/5.1
During my current project, it became necessary to capture additional calendar processing parameters that are not preserved during a normal hybrid move–such as booking policies.
Some of the challenges that I faced in customer environments when writing this tool:
The first thoughts I have when building a tool generally involve four concepts:
I just built a tool for a team of consultants to use, and some of the commands require elevation. Rather than relying on telling them it needs to be elevated, I wanted to be able to exit immediately if the session wasn’t so precious time wasn’t wasted.… [ Continue reading ]
From time to time, I run into environments where things are configured in “non-standard” ways. Granted, we don’t have a lot of specificity or documentation around some attribute configurations because the default configuration has been tested by the people who created the software and works in almost every conceivable situation. … [ Continue reading ]
A few months ago, I developed a script/tool to use for a rather large customer divesting from an Office 365 Dedicated environment. As part of the exit, they wanted a contact object in their GAL for every user, contact, and distribution list that existed in the source Office 365 environment.… [ Continue reading ]
For those of you that have embarked upon the trek to Office 365, you’ve undoubtedly run (or at least heard of) IDFix. It detects and fixes a number of conditions that will cause the directory sync to report errors.
Today, I want to focus on a tool I wrote for a customer almost 2 years ago that addresses conditions not yet identified or remedied by IDFix. … [ Continue reading ]
On a project earlier this year, I had to create random passwords for user accounts as part of a provisioning tool. Perpetually trying to find the fastest way to do something, I came up with a one-liner that you can use to create a random text string from the following ASCII printable characters:
!”#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~0123456789… [ Continue reading ]
Today, I saw a question come up as to how to block a message when it’s sent to two different groups of users at the same time. Let’s say you want to be able to send to John@domain1.com, Bob@domain2.com, and Jane@domain3.com… [ Continue reading ]
In my last Google migration post, I talked about creating a MigrationWiz project with the correct resource and folder mappings to support a large-scale project.
One of the requirements is that the resource calendar *must* be opened/mounted on the calendar of the admin user that you’ll be using on the Google side. … [ Continue reading ]
*Update*
The script for this post has been updated with new parameters and requires a new version of the BitTitan PowerShell Module.
Tonight, while working with another consultant, we ran into a migration challenge–how to migrate Google resources and calendars to Office 365 shared mailboxes.… [ Continue reading ]
Today, I had a customer ask me for an ActiveSync device report. Normally, this is a somewhat simple task (Get-Mailbox | Get-ActiveSyncDevice), but in a large environment with hundreds of domains representing different agencies or business units, that is kind of an unwieldy report to run (as well as including a lot of data for out-of-scope users).… [ Continue reading ]
So, during the course of my current project, I’ve been able to re-use a lot of scripts that I’ve spent years developing and reworking. This time through, though, I’ve found that in trying to make them consumable by other people, I need to update them with command-line parameters (you know, like some sort of grown-up scripter).… [ Continue reading ]