Ever since the advent of DirSync, you’ve been able to add a picture’s binary content to the thumbnailPhoto attribute in AD and synchronize it to Office 365. This blob would be rendered as a photo next to the user’s name in Outlook, OWA, and Lync. … [ Continue reading ]
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Subscribe to the Office 365 URLs and IP Addresses RSS Feed in Outlook
From time to time, we update the URLs and IP addresses that our services use. This happens as a normal course of business (deploying new services, adding new capacity in datacenters or regions). … [ Continue reading ]
Subscribe to the Office 365 Service Health Dashboard RSS Feed in Outlook
*UPDATE* We have deprecated the Service Health Dashboard RSS Feed. For service health updates, you can go to https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/servicestatus.
Periodically, services in Office 365 may become affected by a number of things (network availability, regional network disruptions, upgrades to the service environment, etc).… [ Continue reading ]
Switching from Federated to Cloud Auth (AD FS to Dirsync/AADSync + Password Hash Sync or Password Hash Sync Failover)
A few years ago, we released “DirSync with Password Hash Synchronization,” and it was kind of an all-or-nothing choice. … [ Continue reading ]
Storing PowerShell Credentials in the local user registry
From time to time, it may be necessary to save credentials for automating some portion of a script or function. Here is a method to save and retrieve those credentials as a secure string from the current user’s registry hive as opposed to saving them in plain text or as a secure string in a file. … [ Continue reading ]
Configure Coexistence Mail Routing without a Secondary Routing Domain
Recently, I had to work with a customer whose existing mail host was (surprise) not excited to configure a secondary domain for us to help migrate out of the hosted environment.… [ Continue reading ]
Manually configure Outlook for Office 365
In case you ever need to configure Outlook for an Office 365 tenant that *does not* have AutoDiscover records published, here is how to do it.
1. Log into PowerShell for tenant and run the following command:
Get-Recipient | Select-Object Identity,Mail,ExchangeGuid | Export-Csv .\recipientlist.csv
Cannot Migrate Mailboxes via third-party tools in synchronized environment
I happened to run into the same issue twice in one week–once with a large customer, and once with one of our partners.
Here's a synopsis of the issue:
Mailboxes cannot be migrated via 3rd-party tools because msExchMailboxGuid attribute in cloud is populated due to DirSync/AADSync.… [ Continue reading ]