I ran into an issue today where we discovered that a subset of our users with mailboxes that had been migrated to Office 365 had Retention Hold enabled on their mailboxes - what was strange about this was that we hadn't set this at all during our migration, and it seemed to be randomly applied … Continue reading RetentionHoldEnabled Inconsistency
Last night marked the launch of a new Cloud / Office 365 user group hosted by the team at Long View Systems - I had the pleasure of being the inaugural speaker, and we ended up having a great discussion around the various migration strategies available when moving email into Exchange Online. It was awesome getting … Continue reading Migrating to Office 365: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
As consultants, we often find ourselves in environments that haven't been properly managed, and usually not properly documented - which is generally why we get called in. In this particular situation, I was asked to install and configure DirSync / AAD Connect for a client - only to find out that it was already installed! … Continue reading Find which server DirSync is installed on
One of the admin controls that has recently been added to OneDrive for Business is the ability to restrict file sync to only work on domain joined machines. Here's how you enable this: First, you need to get the domain GUID by running the following command in PowerShell: [powershell] $domains = (Get-ADForest).Domains; foreach($d in $domains) … Continue reading Enable OneDrive domain sync restrictions
When you connect to as many different Office 365 tenancies as I do, it's easy to lose track of which tenant you're connecting to - especially if you're working on one project, but logging on to another tenant to test changes. Sure enough, I was testing OneDrive sync restrictions for a client, and I accidentally … Continue reading Lessons Learned, SharePoint Online Edition
This'll be a quick one - I ran into an issue last night where my secondary ADFS servers were not updating their database settings from the primary, and hadn't updated in over 10 days. This was causing problems, as I had made some changes to ADFS to configure Yammer SSO, and the correct claims rules … Continue reading Force ADFS Database Sync
I ran into this weird error after deploying Office 365 Pro Plus with Skype for Business - it only affected a few users, but it was incredibly annoying, and the error message was somewhat misleading: Other times we'd see this error: After doing a bit of research, it turned out that these errors … Continue reading OST is in use and cannot be accessed
In a surprise move (to me, at least), Microsoft has enabled a feature in OneDrive that allows you to add a folder that has been shared with you into your OneDrive folder hierarchy. I'm not sure when this got enabled, but I only just noticed it, and man, am I excited to see this feature … Continue reading OneDrive now Supports Syncing Shared Folders
By default, any user can create an account on Yammer using their work email address and get added to your company network. Most of the time, this is just what you want - however, if you're in a Proof of Concept, you need a way to control the size of the group who has Yammer access … Continue reading Yammer user blocking
Here is what the end to end experience looks like while using Office Message Encryption (OME). First, a transport rule was created that encrypted any email between my Office 365 account and my Gmail account. Secondly, create an email in OWA or Outlook and send it to the target address. The client (in this case, … Continue reading Testing Office Message Encryption (OME)
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