Stephanie Kahlam

What? Recently we came across an issue within our Tenancy where we could not see the new “Teams Apps” features in the Teams Admin portal. Many of our clients tenancies had this feature available to them when it rolled out to General Availability. Given that our tenancy is set to Targeted Release we were puzzled …

Where did the “Deactivate” page go in Office365 for Directory Synchronization? Can’t find this page anymore from the Admin Center in Office 365? Quit looking…. The “New Way” to Deactivate Directory Synchronization Pretty much everything with regards to managing Directory Synchronization still exists in the new Admin Center, including really cool “at a glance” reporting …

For those of us that just want to get it done the first time vs. having to connect to each service separately. Here’s how you would connect to ALL O365 Services in one GO. Reference – For long and short explanations on the “how to” https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn568015.aspx Modules Required https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Managing-Office-365-and-Exchange-Online-with-Windows-PowerShell-06a743bb-ceb6-49a9-a61d-db4ffdf54fa6?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US The Quick & Dirty #Connect to …

On occasion I need to create large to mammoth size files for testing purposes.  Windows command line makes this possible and quickly. Open a command prompt with elevated permissions – Run As Administrator Type at the prompt: fsutil file createnew <path to file> <file size> Example: fsutil file createnew c:\test.txt 1073741824 The file size should …

New Features Just Keep Popping Up I make a point of checking our Office 365 portals each day.  Its seems there is no methodology for feature roll outs that I can find information on, but it does appear that the newer your tenancy the quicker the features appear. In May 2014 Blogs.office.com posted “Simplifying the …

New O365 Admin portal features are rolling out NOW.  Keep checking your portal, upgrades could occur at any time and when they do this is what you will see.  Stay informed and connected by frequently checking the NEW Office 365 Public Roadmap site. Office 365 will proactively check DNS records to find and fix DNS …