So you need to add an email alias to an existing Office 365 account that is sync’d with an on prem AD. However, you go into the user account in the 365 portal to find the following challenge: Unfortunately to do this you must use ADSIEDIT. On a local domain controller open ADSIEDI. Expand Default […]
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Microsoft Forms for Commercial Organisations–Office 365
The other day I got a little over excited by the fact Microsoft had announced Forms for commercial 365 customers. So off I went to https://forms.office.com/ only to be presented with this: So after grumbling for a few minutes I decided to have a look at the portal and forms was enabled. So now I […]
garethjones294 | | Office 365 | 365, Business, Commercial, Education, Forms, Microsoft, office |
Stop users from creating Office 365 Groups–OWA Policy
In order to stop users creating Office 365 groups which is enabled by default then we can run a command to amend the OWA Policy. Before we create the policy we can see here the user has access to create groups: First connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell: $credential = Get-CredentialImport-Module MsOnlineConnect-MsolService -Credential $credential […]
garethjones294 | | Office 365 | Disable, Groups, office 365 |
Setup and Configure Surface Hub for Microsoft Office 365 – Step by Step
In this post I will go through how to setup a Surface Hub and its integration with Office 365. They steps are very similar if you have an on-prem environment. First open Window Azure AD PowerShell and connect to Office 365 using the following commands. $credential = get-credential Connect-MsolService -Credential $credential Now you need to […]
Enable / Disable Yammer in Office 365
In earlier versions of Yammer, when Yammer Enterprise was activated in the Microsoft Office 365 admin center, the Yammer tile was added to the Office 365 app launcher for all users. When you looked at the Office 365 Assign licenses page, you would see that Yammer licenses were disabled and couldn’t be individually assigned to […]
garethjones294 | | Office 365 |
Add/Enforce a prefix to the name of Office 365 Groups
Given that users can create groups automatically in Office 365 this may cause an issue when users create a group using a name that maybe reserved for users. eg they could create a group called sales@domain.com to prevent this confliting with future users or distribution groups that require a certain name a prefix can be […]
garethjones294 | | Office 365 |
Disable Office 365 Group Creation
It maybe that you do not want your Office 365 users from using this new functionality. To disable the Group creation functionality, you will need to use Azure Active Directory PowerShell. Every Exchange user has an Outlook Web Access (OWA) mailbox policy that governs what they can and can’t do with their mailbox. Updating this […]
garethjones294 | | Office 365 | 365, Disable, Groups, office |
Do you assign an Exchange Online license to a user before migrating them to Office 365?
This is an interesting one. I was asked about this when I was with a client recently and why they had been told not to assign a licence to a user that is being migrated to O365 in a Hybrid environment. First of all you have to remember that the primary difference is the integration […]
garethjones294 | | Exchange, Office 365 |
Using AAD Connect as a Backup to AD FS – Failover ADFS to AAD Connect (DirSync)
For organizations that deploy AD FS for single sign-on with Office 365, it is a CRITICAL component just as an on-premises Active Directory infrastructure is. Whilst you may have your mailboxes hosted on Exchange Online, if your on-prem AD FS is not accessible for whatever reason, users cannot authenticate to access their mailbox. There are […]
garethjones294 | | Azure, Office 365 |
Convert Office 365 User Email to Shared Mailbox and Remove the User License
So imagine a user has a Mailbox and is about to leave the organisation. His or her colleagues want access to their malbox for reference and/or for the same staff member to return. You don’t want to pay for a licence so how can we release that too. Well in order to keep the emails […]
garethjones294 | | Office 365 |