Stephanie Kahlam

I recently added a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate for Office 365 certification to my designations after passing two Microsoft Cloud exams. I’m now certified in Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements, and Enabling Office 365 Services. The MCSA: Office 365 certification qualifies you as a SaaS and cloud applications administrator. To pass the exams, I …

Prevent Users from creating Office 365 Groups – OPTION1 Follow the link and for step 1 “Do not add users to the security group” This will disallow All users from being able to create Office 365 Groups. Only Allow specific Users or Groups to create Office 365 Groups – OPTION2 Follow the link and for …

What are office 365 Groups? Office 365 Groups, AKA Unified Groups, AKA Modern Groups are looking pretty good these days. These new Groups package up the ability to provide collaboration using Conversations, Calendars, Files (Special SharePoint Online Document library), Note Book (OneNote) and more. The mailbox will support storage of up to 50G in size …

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 …

The Scenario At some point our Intune Admin portal was configured to use the Multi-Account console. This enabled the ability for us to view “multiple client accounts” that we managed. Recently I was tasked with removing those client accounts from our Intune Admin portal. Seems a simple enough task eh? NOT SO MUCH! What did …

Scenario I had a task to set up and configure Windows Intune. I needed to ensure that domain joined and NON domain joined Windows 10 systems could enroll in Windows Intune. So, I did what I always do and rigorously started researching the various steps required to get this solution set up. I was more …

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 …

The tool can be accessed here at https://o365securescore.azurewebsites.net/ The output of this tool provides an online tool representative of your “Secure Score” with regards to your Good and Bad tenancy scores. The page is “filterable” so that you can display between Good or Fix, the latter provides links to the issues that require “Fixing”… Kind …

Scenario You have Directory Synchronization configured in your domain and on occasion you need to delete a synced user in AD then recreate the account. Here are the steps required in order to enable successful synchronization of the recreated AD account to Office 365.   Step 1 Delete the user account from AD and perform …

New AAD Connect need to know info and changes Overview/Requirements and Installation https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect/ Download http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594 Upgrade from AADSync https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnect-dirsync-upgrade-get-started/ New Synch method https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnectsync-feature-scheduler/ Sync Scheduler · New default synchronization frequency of 30mins · Scheduled Task to run synchronization is gone · Synchronization can be manually triggered from PowerShell vs. Command Prompt From an elevated PS …