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Last week, I saw some internal discussion about trying to locate the source of a duplicate object error on-premises. While an advanced administrator will be able to figure it out by looking at the Connector Spaces for connected directories, it’s not necessarily obvious to a lot of people (especially if you’re not experienced with our identity management products).… [ Continue reading ]
Since the dawn of time (or at least, since the dawn of the Epoch), people have been inadvertently deleting stuff. As is attributed to Uncle Ben, “with great power comes great responsibility,” and so it is true with the system administrator. … [ Continue reading ]
Over the last couple of days, I’ve updated a few tools that I have published on the gallery. Here’s the run-down:
I’ve been busy with this tool a lot lately, both adding tests and tweaking the way things are done. … [ Continue reading ]
So, imagine this:
The security team comes to you and asks you for a report on how people are accessing Exchange Online services–browser, mobile, Outlook client. In the olden days of Exchange on-premises, you could look at the IIS logs to check browser traffic. … [ Continue reading ]
Last year, I had a project that involved migrating a large customer from Office 365 Dedicated to Office 365 GCC (multi-tenant). While Exchange hybrid moves were possible for the mailboxes, we were unable to perform the necessary hybrid migration configuration for Lync to migrate users. … [ Continue reading ]
So, I had an interesting need the other day when creating another script–I wanted to create a collection of objects that were of the same type, but had different values for the properties. In this case, the objects happened to be registry keys and values that was going to report on, and (optionally) take a series of actions on. … [ Continue reading ]
This week, I had an interesting issue to resolve–one of my customers previously hosting their architecture on-premises was utilizing geo-filtering services provided by their ISP. These geofiltering services were provided at the network layer, so filtered requests never reached the environment.… [ 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:
While updating a script earlier this week, I wanted to spruce up my logging. However, I didn’t have a handy function to incorporate that would allow me to both write to the screen (in various colors for the type of log entry being generated) and to a log file at the same time. … [ 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’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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]