Stephanie Kahlam

  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 …

What is Clutter? – https://blogs.office.com/2015/03/03/making-clutter-office-365-even-better/ Here’s how to disable the Clutter feature in Outlook using PowerShell for All mailboxes or individual. Please also note that this will “Disable” the Clutter feature but the Clutter folder will still remain visible.  If you have Clutter enabled it will appear in the options area of your Office 365 …

  Scenario: Dell PE T320 OS: Windows 2012 running Hyper-V configured with 1 VM VM: Windows SBS Server 2011   Issue: For no apparent reason the SBS 2011 VM randomly spikes CPU to 100% and remains at this level.  There is NO set identified processing culprit.  Usage is all over the map between multiple, random …

  Windows 10 is coming and will be a free upgrade for those users/systems that qualify.  Thank you MicroSoft. http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/windows-10-faq But…If you operate a business, are the person in charge of IT or are the person responsible for making the IT decisions for your business, then there are a few considerations you should review BEFORE …

  Compliance Management and Searches have been around for some time now in Office 365 including the optional eDiscovery Center that can be set up to manage complex and detailed searches/cases.  The Compliance Center (now available from the Admin section of O365 Admin Center) integrates with the tools and features of Compliance Management that can …

  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 …

  Scenario: In Windows 2012 R2 you turn off UAC from Control Panel – User Accounts… Next you try to copy a folder from Server A to Server B where UAC is turned off. You choose to replace or skip same files and even Allow to continue when prompted by Administrator approval window.  (Huh…. Didn’t …

We wanted to take a moment to share this in case it saves somebody from taking the long winding road of sadness that we embarked on yesterday. There’s quite a bit of chatter online (and from fairly reputable sources in the SharePoint community) about a new PowerShell cmdlet in SharePoint 2013 called Copy-SPSite. Basically, the …

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Recently while working on a SharePoint monitoring PowerShell script we stumbled across the need to output the results of SharePoint’s Health Analyzer using PowerShell. Perhaps not most commonly needed functionality but we think it has some neat applications. After a little bit of digging online and not finding anything we dove into Central Admin and …