The issue: unable to discover PowerShell endpoint URI I don't run into this error very often, but it's happened enough times in the last few weeks that I really wanted to come up with a permanent/elegant solution. This error can happen when Lync/Skype is configured in a hybrid deployment, and autodiscover is pointing back on-prem … Continue reading PowerShell: Connect to Lync Online
I recently was trying to resize the OS Disk of an Azure VM that I had just created, and ran into an error while using these instructions. In case you missed it, make sure you stop/deallocate your VM before trying to update the disk - otherwise it'll just fail on you. For the record, this … Continue reading Resize Azure Managed Disk
Ran into the following error while attempting to offboard a mailbox (migrate it back on prem from Exchange Online): MigrationPermanentException: Cannot find a recipient that has mailbox GUID 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx' This error is usually caused when a mailbox is created directly in the cloud (New - Office 365 Mailbox in Exchange console on prem). The Exchange … Continue reading MigrationPermanentException: Cannot find a recipient that has a mailbox GUID
Now, I'm just going to come out and say it - this is NOT the only fix for free/busy issues when configuring Exchange Online Hybrid with an on-prem Exchange server. If you're reading this, then it's more than likely that you (like me), have been reading countless TechNet articles, blog posts, forum posts, etc. Well, … Continue reading Exchange Online Hybrid: Fixing free/busy issues
Scott Duffey has put together some excellent articles (four parts in total) around setting up Azure AD based CBA, and deploying certificates to mobile devices. It's worked really well as a guideline for me in setting up certificate based authentication in production environments - however, there's one scenario that isn't covered in these articles, and … Continue reading Add Azure AD Trusted Certificate Authority
Access Denied (No soup for you!) I've been using this script to streamline my connection to the Exchange Online Shell, and it's been working well for me - until recently when I ran into this weird "Access Denied" error: As you can imagine, I started out by troubleshooting issues with my account, trying to figure … Continue reading Unable to connect to Exchange Online Shell
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
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
Office 365 Groups: Next Gen Distribution Lists? Lately Microsoft has been putting a lot of focus on Office 365 groups as an ad hoc, user driven collaboration platform. These Office 365 Groups are also used for Microsoft Planner, as each Office 365 Group creates a plan, and every time a user creates a new plan … Continue reading Distribution Groups, Naming Policies and You!
I've run into this problem a few times during recent migrations, so I've started incorporating the script blocks below into my migration scripts to make sure that I have a consistent experience with moving shared mailboxes, and enabling archive mailboxes. Issue: Sometimes msExchange attributes are not properly updated when a mailbox is moved in Exchange. … Continue reading On Premise attributes not updating properly
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