Stephanie Kahlam

Why would this be helpful? If you have a tenancy where mail has always existed in Office365 and they now want to implement Directory Synchronization you will need to extract all user email addresses (proxy addresses) in order to import them into on-premises AD. Failure to update AD objects prior to Initial Sync will result …

  The new AADConnect V1.1 has some significant changes this time around – OVERVIEW   I performed a “from scratch” install which was guided by the wizard driven interface in Office 365. Installation of the actual AADConnect software was fairly easy and if you have read any MS KB’s or blog posts most will suggest …

  On occasion you may be required to change or update a users  AD account name.  The user got married, the user opted for a name change or the most common, a user’s name was configured incorrectly to begin with. Below are the steps to take if your domain is also participating in directory synchronization …

  Scenario: Directory Synchronization is occurring between On-premises AD and Office365 (WITHOUT password write-back enabled).  A “synced” users password was reset in the Office365 portal (for any number of Administrative or user related reasons)  Now the “synced” user does not have a synced Domain password.  What to do?  MS Cloud Services support told me not …

This will be the first in a series of posts about using Office 365 (specifically SharePoint Online) as a Learning Management System. In this post we will look at bulk creating sites, which can be used to create a SharePoint site for each of your school’s courses. These posts assume knowledge of SharePoint Online administration …

  This is a simple method of “moving” a users email from their Office 365 account to a “Target Folder” in another users account using PowerShell.  If you are unable to access their email in any other way this will work well. Firstly ensure the user connecting to Exchange Online is a member of the …

Scenario: You want users to have Full access to a shared calendar but… You don’t want the inbox of this new account to be mapped to the users profile.   The above scenario can be achieved via PowerShell First connect to the MSOL Exchange tenant with PowerShell $UserCredential = Credential [email protected] $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName …

By default, Office 365 ProPlus installs as one package which means that ALL programs are installed: Access, Excel, InfoPath, Lync, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word.  With the Office Deployment Tool you can elect to EXCLUDE certain apps from being installed. This tool has also been presented as the “Shared Activation Tool for RDS” however, …

Hey DirSync  where is my DirSyncConfigShell.psc1? In previous versions of Dirsync (latest version 1.0.6862.0000) there was a nifty little shell that could be found in C:Program FilesWindows Azure Active Directory SyncSYNCBUSSynchronization ServiceUIShellDirSyncConfigShell.psc1  I liked to create a shortcut on my desktop along with the ever so ambiguously named DirSync GUI, miisclient.exe.  When I logged into …

After you have set up and configured your Compliance Management Policy with in-place eDiscovery you will then be able to execute an eDiscovery search from EAC in Office 365. Upon completion of the search you can export the results to a .pst file or open the search results from the Discovery Mailbox directly for viewing. …