Stephanie Kahlam

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 …

  Scenario A user on in-place hold has been deleted and their mailbox is now “inactive” A search is required on this users mailbox and the data needs to be exported to PST.  A new case is created in the e-Discovery site, the source mailbox is set and the query is configured.  The search/query finishes …

  You are logged into Office 365.  You are in the Exchange Admin Center and you want to export your eDiscovery search results to a PST file.  You select “Export to a PST file” option but are met with this error: In order to successfully export your mailbox Search results to a PST file from …

On occasion I need to create large to mammoth size files for testing purposes.  Windows command line makes this possible and quickly. Open a command prompt with elevated permissions – Run As Administrator Type at the prompt: fsutil file createnew <path to file> <file size> Example: fsutil file createnew c:\test.txt 1073741824 The file size should …

Scenario: Upgraded Trend WFBS V8 to V9 SP1. POST upgrade the OutBreak Defense tab showed a 404 error, file or directory not found. Scanning the Trend support site turned up nothing in terms of “known issues”.   Resolution: Reset IE and all personal settings Tools –> Internet Options –> Advanced –> Reset Once reset complete …

Being somewhat of a “newbie” to the SBS environment I thought it best to OVER research an Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP3 upgrade followed by Rollup 6 (KB2936871) that I was planning to perform.  I didn’t expect to come across so many issues that people had experienced but I was thankful for information as it …

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 …