Stephanie Kahlam

In an Hybrid configuration, while migration of Resource or Room Calendars to Exchange On-line works there are a few configurations that will need to be set with the help of Power Shell. Recently I performed such a migration and found that while the Calendars were available to both Office 365 and on-premises users, there were …

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 …

Scenario A user logs into SharePoint and their login name is stamped in the “hidden” user information list. Their SharePoint footprint is now reflected by this login name. At some point this users name is changed in Active Directory but the change is NOT reflected in the “hidden” user information list despite a successful User …

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 …

We came across a situation recently where we needed to enable Publishing (at the web level – ie. It was already on at the site collection level) using PowerShell. This was in the context of a script that created many Sub Sites (webs) based on an automated process. A good time to remind everyone that …

Ever wished you could bulk invite external users to your SharePoint Online site? Turns out you can. Here’s the PowerShell. A couple notes: [powershell] # Establish Connection to SharePoint Online $siteUrl = “site url” $ctx = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($siteUrl) $credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials(“username”, “password”) $ctx.Credentials = $credentials # Create request list $userList = New-Object “System.Collections.Generic.List“1[Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Sharing.UserRoleAssignment]” # …

  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 …