I have spent the week at Microsoft Ignite here in Orlando. It has been a fantastic, informative week. My focus has been around Microsoft Teams, EM+S and Azure AD Premium, so Advanced Threat Protection, Cloud App Security and Conditional Access. I wrote an update on the Content and Code blog which you can read here … More I’m at Microsoft Ignite!
Season’s Greetings to you all! This is likely to be my last post of any substance of 2016, so let’s hope it’s a useful one! I have recently been in the position of needing to complete individual move requests from within a migration batch created using PowerShell and the New-MigrationBatch command. In the past I … More How To: Complete individual move request from a migration batch
Good news! Focused Inbox is now live in Exchange Online! Bad news, it is enabled by default for new mailboxes, even for migrated users, which could see a massive change in behaviour that you/your users aren’t expecting! Thankfully, if you are using the latest version of the Exchange Online PowerShell Module you can manage these … More Quick Tip: Managing Focused Inbox in Exchange Online
This is the second in a series of posts. You can find links to the other parts of the series here: Part One – Introduction Part Two – Full Mailbox Access In Part One I gave an overview of the different scenarios in which cross-premises permissions are affected in a Hybrid scenario between Office 365 … More Delegate permissions in Exchange Hybrid – Part Two – Full Mailbox Access
This is the first in a series of posts. You can find links to the other parts of the series here: Part One – Introduction Part Two – Full Mailbox Access One of the most important factors in a successful migration to Exchange Online is correctly batching your users to ensure as little disruption as … More Delegate permissions in Exchange Hybrid – Part One – Introduction
If you are in the situation where you are migrating from a non-Microsoft mail system (e.g. Domino Lotus Notes, Google) or a hosted Exchange platform you may be in the situation where you have set up AAD Connect before extending your Active Directory Schema to include the Microsoft Exchange attributes. This can cause problems when … More How to fix being unable to add Exchange Hybrid features to AAD Connect configuration
Whilst setting up a lab for another blog post I am writing I ran into an issue in my new Exchange environment where after I logged in to the EAC login page as normal I see nothing but a blank screen. As I have just been setting up my lab I have just updated the … More Exchange 2016 – Blank page after logging into EAC
I was recently in the position working on a project with a customer for the first time where they needed to set up Skype for Business Hybrid, but with closed federation. This wasn’t something I’d come across before and all of the default documentation and articles I found seemed to presume that organisations would be … More Skype for Business Hybrid with closed Federation
Whilst moving a client to OneDrive for Business recently we experienced occasions where individual machines would not show the shortcut to their OneDrive folder in Windows Explorer by default (See Below). The steps below are how to manually set the registry to show this shortcut. Press (“Windows Key” + r) to open “Run” dialog box. … More How to manually set OneDrive for Business to show in Windows Explorer
I was recently working with a client who needed to send out an email from Office 365 that was built from various fields in a CSV file to recipients also held in the CSV. A good example would be a class list where you have the students’ details, along with their course name and grade … More How to send a custom email to a group of recipients using PowerShell and Office 365
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