Stephanie Kahlam

Scenario: You are conducting an On Premises Exchange migration to Office 365 and you intend to upgrade to Office 2016 Review this information: Outlook Assistant Autodiscover Preferred migration plan: Create office 365 tenancy, add users and license them accordingly Install Office 2016 on each licensed users machine Plan the migration in SkyKick portal Kick off …

New Default Sync Feature Coming Duplicate Attribute Resiliency is a feature in Azure Active Directory that will eliminate friction caused by UserPrincipalName and ProxyAddress conflicts when running one of Microsoft’s synchronization tools. Duplicate Attribute Resiliency will be the new default behavior across all Azure Active Directory tenants. It will be on by default for all …

Scenario: You walk away from your machine and come back to find that your machine has “automagically” restarted itself. “What’s going on?” you say. And to further your frustration it does this at Random times throughout the day. What’s Happening: Windows 10 Automatic Maintenance is trying to be helpful. It is designed to run maintenance …

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 …

Scenario You want to edit a particular Result Source so you go to the Enterprise Search page, select Site Settings and proceed to choose Result Sources from the Search options You Get This What went wrong? There are two places where you can access the Search Result Sources for editing. Selecting the correct choice will …

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 …