Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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Unable to RDP to Azure VM From Hotel WiFi

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This is one of those silly little things that comes along every so often just to mess with your head, and to cause some issues.  Of course it has to happen at a time when you really want to connect to the remote machine and do some work.

This week I was at a training event for internal Microsoft engineers, and when back at the hotel I tried to connect to one of my Azure based lab VMs.  As you may i… Read the rest “Unable to RDP to Azure VM From Hotel WiFi”

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How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 2

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is the second in a series of three posts which will walk you through installing, configuring and connecting AD FS 2016 to Office 365.  In part one we installed the AD FS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working.

In this second post we need to make the AD FS infrastructure available to the Internet in a secure fashion, so that Office 365 will be able to contact AD FS to au… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 2”

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Office 365 Workshop Links – May 2017

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This is a link throw-down for the items discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop that I delivered to customers in beautiful Montreal last week.

I’m posting the links here since they will be available to all of the attendees, and thought that others may also find them useful/interesting.

PowerShell Tips And Tricks

Start with these three articles:

How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity… Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – May 2017”

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How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365

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This is a step by step guide to installing and configuring Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for use with Office 365.  If you still wish to deploy the previous version of AD FS (Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS), then please start with this post.  For those with a keen eye, the 2012 R2 post was published exactly three years ago today.

The act of deploying and configuring … Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365”

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Exchange 2016 RecoverServer

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There have been many great improvements to the Exchange Server installation process in recent years.  Exchange 2010 gave us the ability to perform incremental deployment, where all mailbox servers start off as a regular mailbox server and then we can add it to a Database Availability Group (DAG).  Exchange 2007 introduced the ability to run a recover server operation in a nice easy format with the… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 RecoverServer”

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Exchange 2016 Upgrades–The Point Of No Return

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When designing an upgrade strategy from an older version of Exchange to a newer one, a question that needs to be addressed is do we need to introduce a version of Exchange that may not currently be present?  This may be when upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016.  If that organisation currently does not have any Exchange 2013 servers, you need to evaluate if there may be a future requireme… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Upgrades–The Point Of No Return”

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Unable To Access OWA or Office 365 Portal On Servers

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Being unable to open OWA or the Office 365 portal is a common issue in test labs.  In these environments there may be a desire to use the browser installed on a lab server to quickly access the Office 365 portal or to test email by using OWA.

This is typically met with the below error:

For the search engines:

We can't sign you in

Your browser is currently set to block JavaScript. You need to allow Jav… Read the rest “Unable To Access OWA or Office 365 Portal On Servers”

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AAD Connect Express Installation Screenshots–March 2017

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This is a reference post to illustrate the installation experience when installing Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect).  AAD Connect is often referred by its older name of DirSync as it rolls off the tongue slightly easier.  This post was written in March 2017, and installs AAD Connect version 1.1.443.0 which was the latest version at the time of writing.  The Express installation option i… Read the rest “AAD Connect Express Installation Screenshots–March 2017”

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Exchange Setup – Certificate Is Expired

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The below is one of my Exchange 2013 lab servers which ran into an error when upgrading to Exchange 2013 CU13.  This was because I had deliberately broken Outlook Anywhere in order to replicate a customer situation where they had let the Outlook Anywhere certificate expire.    When running the CU upgrade process, setup failed when restoring the Mailbox Role Transport Service:

setup.exe /Mode:Upgrad… Read the rest “Exchange Setup – Certificate Is Expired”

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Exchange Message Tracking Log Examples

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Exchange Message Tracking Log Examples

The below post was promoted from the draft bin due to a recent customer engagements.  Exchange admins have grown very used to the message tracking UI tools that have shipped with the previous Exchange builds.  This is completely understandable since they are required to investigate and resolve numerous issues.  There may be a question of did Steve in accounting get that email last week, or why are… Read the rest “Exchange Message Tracking Log Examples”