I ran into an issue recently where I needed to access the mail options on a resource mailbox, which of course has no license, and can't be logged into directly. After a bit of looking around, I found I was able to access the mail options directly using the following URL: https://outlook.office.com/owa/mailbox@domain.com/?path=/options/mail Just replace mailbox@domain.com with … Continue reading Accessing mail options on a resource mailbox
While looking for a new plugin to post to Twitter whenever I publish a new blog post, I decided to give Microsoft Flow a try - here's what the process looks like: Log in to Flow (or create a free account) - you can search the gallery of templates if you like, or just click … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: Tweet New Posts from WordPress
I'm so excited to open my email on New Year's Day to find this email from Microsoft: It almost sounds cliché to say that I'm humbled and honored, but it is honestly such an amazing feeling to be invited to be a part of this awesome community of passionate, incredibly smart people. I love being … Continue reading MVP 2017!
I ran into this issue on a recent Windows 10 deployment for a client - when the machine attempted to PXE boot from the WDS / MDT server, it would go through four iterations of the PXE boot cycle before finally getting the correct boot image from the server. Worse, if you have WDS configured … Continue reading Fixed: PXE Boot Process loops 4 times
I've run into this error in Azure AD Connect (DirSync), and I thought I'd share how I fixed it - as is often the case with sync errors, the solution is not always obvious and requires some digging! To start us off, this is what the error looks like: attributes associated with this object have … Continue reading Uniqueness violation. Property: SourceAnchor
Just ran into this issue when I created a P2S VPN on my Azure Virtual Network - I downloaded the client and connected ok, but I realized I could only connect to my servers via IP, not by FQDN. Checking my local IP settings, I realized that the DNS Server on my VPN connection was … Continue reading Azure Point 2 Site VPN: DNS config is wrong
As part of ongoing user management, this question comes up from time to time: What happens to a user's OneDrive library when their account is deleted? The short answer is that user data is retained for 60 days after their account is deleted, and then irretrievable after that. During that time, the data can be … Continue reading OneDrive: Deleted user retention
I recently ran into an issue while running Server 2016 attempting to connect to my Azure account through PowerShell - after installing the Azure PowerShell Modules and running Add-AzureAccount, an authentication window opens, allowing you to connect to your Azure account. However, instead of seeing the logon window, I would only get the following error: … Continue reading Add-AzureAccount fails – Your browser is currently set to block cookies
Since April 2016, Microsoft deprecated Yammer Single Sign On capabilities - up until this point, if you wanted to block users from accessing Yammer, you needed to configure a relying party trust in ADFS / SSO, and block all users who are not members of a specific group. While this feature worked well (in my … Continue reading Block Yammer Access in Office 365
This drove me crazy for a while, because I couldn't find the option to hide the stage in a Skype for Business conversation once I no longer wanted to see what someone was presenting on their screen - might not happen very often, but it happened enough to want to hunt it down, and it's … Continue reading Skype for Business: Hide Stage
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