External Sharing must be enabled or configured in two places before people can start sharing sites, documents, lists or libraries. The first place is under settings in the SharePoint admin center: Under External sharing, choose the level of access you'd like to enable, and whether or not you want to have anonymous access: Now select … Continue reading Turn on External sharing in Office 365
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Share a document library with external users
External user sharing Office 365 allows you to share your content with external users either at the site level, or the folder/document level, and this process is documented nicely here. Where things get tricky is if you need to share a document library or a list with external users, but not give them access to … Continue reading Share a document library with external users
Office 365 Licensing: Watch where you click!
When we cancelled our Project online pilot account, Microsoft graciously offered to waive our early termination fee - this was quite nice of them, but we had no idea we were locked in for any specific period of time. …puzzling! Looking into the license options in Office 365, you see these two options right next … Continue reading Office 365 Licensing: Watch where you click!
Office 365 Password Reset (self-service options)
Option 1: "I know my password, but want to change it" The 2010 version (wave 14) of Office 365 didn't have a self service option for end users to change their passwords, and required them to send an email to their administrators if they wanted to make a change. Thankfully, the 2013 update of Office … Continue reading Office 365 Password Reset (self-service options)
Office 365: Naming Your Tenant
When setting up your account in Office 365, it's important to consider what you want to name your tenant before you make your account live. "Tenant," you ask? If you're not familiar with this term, think of it this way: Office 365 is a multi-tenant cloud, which basically means that the one huge cloud domain … Continue reading Office 365: Naming Your Tenant
Exchange Migration Errors
Recently while performing a migration from Exchange 2003 to Office 365 (wave 15), I ran into a few mailboxes that were failing the migration with the following error: The error sounds pretty straightforward, and the general recommendation on the community forums is to delete these accounts and start over. Makes sense… these are user accounts … Continue reading Exchange Migration Errors
Office 365 Email Migration Options
This is not meant to be an exhaustive, how-to post... just more of a run through of the different strategies available for migrating to Office 365 from various email platforms, and my experiences with them. 1. Exchange to Office 365 This is the smoothest method available - if you have Exchange 2007 or later,* Office … Continue reading Office 365 Email Migration Options
Lync calls not routing properly
One of the biggest issues we've had in our new Lync 2013 installation is that calls will not route to a user when their presence shows them as in a meeting - this was an obvious frustration, because it means that the more often than not, the person whom you are in a meeting with … Continue reading Lync calls not routing properly
How to wrap up an Office 365 IMAP Migration
On a recent migration from hosted Exchange to Office 365 using an IMAP Email Migration, we ran into a bit of an issue when trying to complete the migration: There's no way to stop it gracefully! It turns out that Microsoft has removed the Stop button, and have deprecated the PowerShell cmdlet Complete-Migration (see below). … Continue reading How to wrap up an Office 365 IMAP Migration
Master & CmdR 