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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our proxy addresses hasten to multiply.
At least, that’s how it seems. As is the organizational ebb and flow, business objectives change, new business units are spun up, old projects are turned down, and you may need to add or remove proxy addresses in your Exchange environment to account for that. … [ Continue reading ]
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:
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 ]
Diving deeper into the Security & Compliance Center, I decided to embark on trying to scope eDiscovery permissions to meet a certain set of requirements that we see when multiple business units want or need to maintain independence from a content search and discovery perspective.… [ Continue reading ]
Hey! It’s finally here! After months of hard work (almost a year from when we started until a copy at my doorstep), we’ve finally made it to the finish line! Also, pay no mind to my poor cuticles!
You can read the press release here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2017/11/27/new-book-microsoft-office-365-administration-inside-out-includes-current-book-service-2nd-edition… [ 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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:
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 ]
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 ]