One of the challenges when migrating from Google Suite to Office 365 is coexistence - mail routing is not that hard to configure, and free / busy (Calendar Interop) is now available and works fairly well. Google's instructions are pretty straightforward and are available here. Just remember that you need to disable your user's calendar … Continue reading G-Suite to Office 365: Meeting Room Interop
I've been using my Exchange Online connection script for some time now, and I love it - however, one of the biggest failings of that PowerShell module is that it doesn't support MFA, which is becoming more common as a requirement as we go along. Thankfully, Microsoft has released a new PowerShell module for connecting … Continue reading PowerShell: Connect to Exchange Online – MFA Style
Just ran into this today where there was a discrepancy between the permissions that were showing up in the Office 365 Admin Portal, in the Exchange Admin Center, and in PowerShell. From the Exchange Admin Center, you could only see a single user added with Full Access: However, if you look at the Office 365 … Continue reading The Case of the Missing Mailbox Permissions
I recently needed to configure a hierarchical address book (HAB) on one of my projects, and the process was interesting enough that I thought it was worth sharing - like most things I post, this is more a collection of all the different places where I've researched how to do something, and put together what … Continue reading Hierarchical Address Book Creation
Usually, adding email domains to Office 365 is a pretty straightforward affair, and I usually just add them through the Office 365 admin portal. However, if you need to add multiple domains into Office 365, clicking through them one at a time is a painful process - I was recently working on a project that … Continue reading PowerShell: Add Multiple Domains to Office 365
This post is the second in a series on short posts with some of my favorite PowerShell tips and tricks (first one here, in case you missed it). This next script is another building block I use in many other scripts - especially ones where I know I'm going to be connecting to the same … Continue reading PowerShell: Create Admin Credentials
I know there's a number of scripts out there that can handle automating (or at least simplifying the process of connecting to Exchange Online - I've realized over the years, though, that there's a number of tips and tricks that I've adopted to make my day to day life easier. Here's one of them… I … Continue reading PowerShell: Connect to Exchange Online
Hybrid Azure AD Join and Conditional Access One of the cool features of Azure AD Conditional Access Policies is being able to require that machines be domain joined, essentially locking down your access to corporate devices only, and preventing non-managed or non-trusted devices from being able to access your business data. You can see from … Continue reading Troubleshooting Hybrid Azure AD Join
It seems like one of the tasks I do the most on projects is discovery and documentation of existing settings in a client's environment. While there's a number of reports in the Office 365 portal, I find that nothing beats PowerShell for getting just what I want when I want it - and this time … Continue reading Use PowerShell to find Mail Contacts
I ran into this error today while configuring Certificate Based Authentication (CBA), and it was a weird enough of an issue that I thought it would be useful to post it and share the fix. After configuring my CRL so that it was published publicly (this is required for both your Root CA, as well … Continue reading Troubleshooting ADFS/CBA: Error 342
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