Stephanie Kahlam

Microsoft 365 and SMB.

Latest Posts

Create Compliance Management Policy in Exchange Online

How to configure a company policy for: Hold all user email for 7 years Enable In Place Archiving for all users Move all user mail to personal archive after 2 years Apply Retention Policy to delete mail after 7 years Make all Exchange items searchable/discoverable View details and quotas for Recoverable items folder

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Compliance Management Facts for Exchange Online

Advanced Email Features in Exchange Online Advanced Email which includes: Information Rights Management, archiving legal hold capabilities unlimited storage Applicable to: Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education A3 Office 365 Government G3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education A4 Office 365 Government G4 Exchange Online Plan 2 More Here Required Permissions for eDiscovery …

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Office 365 New Features

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 …

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How BIG is my OneDrive?

Microsoft  came through with their promise of a massive increase to OneDrive for business from 25GB to 1TB So if you are like me you want to confirm this increase, you want to see it first hand.  And here’s how you can do it.

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Get Directory Synchronization Info

If you have enabled and configured DirSync you can view basic information regarding “Synchronization Status” from the Office 365 Administration Portal. You can however, view a more detailed overview by running a simple PowerShell command.

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“Simplifying O365 Admin Experience”

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 …

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Dirsync and SMTP Matching

Scenario Your users were originally configured in the Cloud. You did NOT set up SSO with ADFS You currently have two password policies to manage (in the Cloud and in your local Domain) Your users have two passwords to keep track of; 1 for Office 365 and 1 for their domain login This can be …

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DirSync to the Rescue

Dirsync with “password sync” combined with Office 365 Multi-Factor authentication offers the ability to utilize and enjoy a SIMILAR sign-on experience as Single Sign On without having to undertake the arduous task of setting up an AD FS infrastructure. Recently I began poking around to familiarize myself with AD FS 2012 R2 (v3.0) and I …

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