Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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Migrating IaaS Resources to Azure Resource Manager

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Like many other customers, the Tailspintoys Canada organization are leveraging Azure as part of their IT solution, and have done so for years.  Because of this they have Azure resources in the old Azure model, and wish to transition to the new deployment methodology.  In short they need to move from Azure Service Manager to the new Azure Resource Manager.

Azure Service Manager (SM) is also called C… Read the rest “Migrating IaaS Resources to Azure Resource Manager”

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Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For those wondering what the download page is for the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Assistant, using your favourite search engine in your favourite browser is one choice.

Alternatively you can use the handy dandy shortcut URL:

https://aka.ms/SIA

 

This will take you to the latest version of the Sign In Assistant download page.

 

Download Microsoft Online Sign In Assistant

 

For reference purposes, the intent of the Sign-In Assis… Read the rest “Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant”

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How To Get Azure RM VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a follow-up to the initial post on the topic which was based on the original Azure Service Manager (Azure SM) model.  Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM) changes the deployment methodology.  Take a look at Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment: Understand deployment models and the state of your resources for more details. We will take a brief look at the relationship of the networking… Read the rest “How To Get Azure RM VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell”

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Create Azure RM VM Using Existing VHD

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

TailspinToys Canada have been busy upgrading their on-premises, Azure and Office 365 infrastructure.  Previously Azure resources were moved from classic (Azure Service Manager) to the new Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM).   The VMs, storage accounts and VHDs were migrated.   One of the migration blockers was that multiple availability sets were previously present in one of the cloud services.  Th… Read the rest “Create Azure RM VM Using Existing VHD”

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Web Application Proxy Service Not Starting Due to Malformed Configuration File

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below Web Application Proxy (WAP) server had an unexpected issue.  When the machine came back up, it had lost the configuration to allow it to communicate to the AD FS farm.  This is not specifically an VM/Hyper-V/Azure issue, it is more of a WAP issue.

Fixing the issue is straight forward, though let’s take a look at the symptoms first.

WAP Server Errors

On the affected WAP server the AD FS serv… Read the rest “Web Application Proxy Service Not Starting Due to Malformed Configuration File”

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Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to answer a recent customer question regarding if there is a requirement to perform a directory sync cycle after creating a new remote mailbox enabled AD user object before it could have an Office 365 mailbox created.

They believed that the on-premises Exchange tools were directly reaching out to Exchange Online and immediately creating the necessary mailbox in the service.   This is w… Read the rest “Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg”

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Reminder – Signup For Moving Tenant To Canadian Datacenter Region

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is a quick note for Canadian customers.  We are now almost at the end of the window to signup for the GoLocal move where Microsoft will move your North American tenant to the Canadian datacenter region.  Note that the message states core customer data is what will be moved.  The below message should be in your Office 365 Message Center:

Message Center Notification For Canadian Datacentre Move

From the above message:

Customers with data residency… Read the rest “Reminder – Signup For Moving Tenant To Canadian Datacenter Region”

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Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When running operations in the Exchange Management Shell, you may run into the situation where the commands do not complete and the error “Pipeline not executed because a pipeline is already executing” is reported.  An example of this is shown below.

This is an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 lab server.  In this case a PowerShell one-liner was used to iterate through the Exchange 2010 servers, and to start… Read the rest “Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing”

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Save The Date – End of Office 2007 Extended Support

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Please be aware and plan for the upcoming end of extended support Office 2007.   For those who were working in IT back in 2006 when Office 2007 was released, do you remember the catchy title that was used? L.O.V.E.  - Launch of Office Vista and Exchange.  Office 2007 brought us Outlook 2007 which was a welcome change from the 2003 version of the product.  Some features are still with us, others no… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Office 2007 Extended Support”