As you may know, many of the administration tasks for Office 365 services have to be done using PowerShell. Since June 30rd, Microsoft has released a new web site to assist you with Office 365 powershell commands. This site contains lot of resources and script samples to help you Go to http://powershell.office.com/
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Want to be the first to see, test and use what will be coming with Skype for Business and Skype for Business Online?? Go to https://www.skypepreview.com/ to sign up for Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing (US only at this time) and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling (US only at this time too). Skype Meeting Broadcast
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Following my previous post about the upgrade process from DirSync to AAD Connect (which failed), I decided to go ahead and uninstall DirSync to do a fresh install of AAD Connect. So let start a fresh install by accepting the license agreement Then you have the choice to do an Express configuration – which
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Following the announcement of the new AAD Connect (Azure Active Directory Connect), I decided to upgrade my DirSync instance (version 1.0.7020). So the first thing is off course to get the AAD Connect tool either from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 Then let start the upgrade…. Some details about my current DirSync configuration: Use OU’s filtering to define where
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An update is currently being deployed on SharePoint which will allows IT administrator to restrict external sharing to be validated only by the original email which sent the invitation. To enable this, you must connect to your SharePoint tenant using PowerShell and set the RequireAcceptingAccountMatchInvitedAccount to TRUE (by default this is set to FALSE) To
You may be already aware – if not this now the case – every user on Office 365 has a profile page (different from the SharePoint Profile) accessible from the Gear\Office 365 Settings\Me menu. This page provide user details like your contact details or allows you to know more about the license assigned to your
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The long waited new version (and unique tool) to synchronize your On Premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory (and so Office 365 too) is now available This new version offers more options for the synchronization such as multi AD Forest support, simpler attributes selection for synchronization, richer identity scenario… And the icing on the
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It has been also a long requested and waited improvement: being able to granularly grant administration permission on Office 365 services (SharePoint, Lync/Skype for Business, Exchange) without granting global administrator. Microsoft has announced this major improvement is going to be rolled out as part of the monthly update process. For those with the First Release
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Microsoft has announced that a new version of ActiveSync is coming. This v16 is introducing a long waited feature request: synching the draft folder Also part of this new version, calendar items with attachment will be synched with the attachment. At this time, this new version is being rolled out only on Exchange Online on
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Recently I had an issue with the Yammer Directory Synchronization tool. It has been setup and working for a while now but few days ago, it stopped working and the error was quite strange: unable to authenticate Off course I have validated that the account was administration on my Yammer network and it was the
