Over time a typical Azure subscription will create, delete and manage multiple virtual machines. When removing an Azure VM there is the option to retain the disk.
In a large environment with lots of disks and VMs, how can we easily see what disks are not currently in use?
The portal can show the disks that are attached and not attached.
This is good for a few disks, though if … Read the rest “Which Azure Disk Is Not Attached”
One of the customers I was working with last week encountered an error whilst attempting an operation in Exchange Online PowerShell. This surprised them, as they were logged on as an account in the Organization Management RBAC Role group.
They received an error running the following cmdlet:
This reported failure was due to an error with CmdletInvalidOperationInDehydratedContextException.
This actua… Read the rest “Office 365 Command You Tried To Run Isn’t Currently Allowed Due To DeHydration”
As mentioned in the previous posts in this services, the configuration of Exchange ActiveSync was something that is commonly overlooked by many a consultant. Exchange ActiveSync allows any user to synchronise any device by default. If this is what your organisation wants to do, then you are good to go. If not, then changes must be made. The issue is that if you simply change the global Active… Read the rest “Exchange ActiveSync Script To Grandfather Existing Devices”
On the Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers post, Tim commented that he had found the script very useful when troubleshooting discarded packets on Exchange 2013 DAG servers. Using PowerShell it is very easy to extend the search to discover which other servers are impacted by the packets received discarded issue.
Since the initial version of t… Read the rest “Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers–Updated February 2015”
This is an interesting tale from a customer who was trying to get a list of Outlook clients that were connecting to their Exchange 2010 servers. They wanted to validate the Outlook versions that were connecting, due to Exchange 2013 requirements and also that Outlook 2010 must have SP2 installed at this time.
A quick search of the interwebs turned up a script, and they though all was golden at tha… Read the rest “PowerShell – CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage Where Object Error”
Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature to provide a very capable automated monitoring and management framework. Managed Availability allows Exchange to self diagnose and to self correct issues without having to escalate to a carbon life based unit for every issue. Whilst Managed Availability may still have to page humans, the frequency is certainly reduced compared to Exchange… Read the rest “Quick Tip: What Restarts Has Managed Availability Issued”
Abraham Lincoln made the famous quote that it is impossible to verify the accuracy of information on the Internet. Well, OK he didn't but it was a semi-funny intro on the subject of quotes…..
There are two different types quotes that we can use in PowerShell.:
After upgrading my labs to Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AAD Sync), the install completed successfully and I was able to use the new process to manually initiate a full sync cycle. Excellent!
Since all went swimmingly, I was a little bit surprised a day later to find that newly created objects were not being created in the cloud nor were changes propagated to office 3… Read the rest “Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AAD Sync) – Beware the Synchronize Now Check Box”
This is a link throw-down for the items that we discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop that I delivered to customers in sunny/snowy/windy/rainy St. John’s Newfoundland. Yes it was all four seasons in one week, but that seems to be par for the course! St. John's was great (as always), and it is a place I love to visit. With rain, it reminds me of back home! This is the view I enjoyed when h… Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – February 2015”
Exchange Online in Office 365 has a very similar RBAC implementation to the on-premises installations of Exchange. After previously bumping to an issue with Exchange Online (EXO), and then twice again in the last fortnight this bubbled to the top of the publishing pile.
In this environment, a custom Management Role was created called Level1-HelpDesk. This is a copy from the Mail Recipients built-… Read the rest “Remove Multiple Management Role Entries In Office 365”