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Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AAD Sync) – Beware the Synchronize Now Check Box

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”

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Office 365 Workshop Links – February 2015

St. John's Workshop

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”

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Remove Multiple Management Role Entries In Office 365

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”

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Using Exchange PowerShell Remoting With Integrated Scripting Environment–ISE

One item that is very prevalent is people directly loading the Exchange PowerShell snapin into the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).  This is not supported from the Exchange point of view, as Exchange requires that Remote PowerShell  be used with Exchange 2010 and 2013.

Let’s look at how this should be done.

 

Choosing The Correct Profile

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Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE

PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment

In this post we will look at some of the mechanics behind creating a profile file which will customise the start-up behaviour of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE).  This will also serve as a precursor to additional posts on tweaking ISE for Exchange purposes.  The catalyst for writing this was twofold.  Firstly, an administrator was having issues trying to get ISE to process a profile scr… Read the rest “Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE”

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Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported

It is always interesting to see how certain constructs are carried over from previous versions of Exchange without being re-evaluated. The case in point here, is how access is provided to Exchange 2010/2013 PowerShell.  Exchange 2010 introduced  mail admins to remote PowerShell.  At this time we should all be using remote PowerShell for Exchange 2010 and 2013 servers.

However there still seems to b… Read the rest “Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported”

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Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel

The default settings in Exchange 2010 and 2013 allow any user to synchronise any device.  Depending upon your organisation's viewpoint this default may not be optimal.   Ideally this should have been changed when Exchange 2010 or 2013 was first deployed.  Doing so would have ensured that the appropriate device rules were created and that unwanted devices would never have been able to connect to Ex… Read the rest “Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel”

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Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings

Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings

It has been 5 years since Exchange 2010 was released and there is still a very common item that a lot of deployments have overlooked.  This is the configuration of the ActiveSync Organization settings.  These settings set the global options for devices connecting into Exchange 2010 and also Exchange 2013.  They are a core part of Exchange 2010 & 2013’s Allow/Block/Quarantine feature.

Rather than… Read the rest “Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings”

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Save The Date – End Of Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange — T Minus 12 Months

Since the Forefront brand of products have been retired, yes I miss TMG, please be aware of the extended support date for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange.

This product is slated to exit extended support on the 31st of December 2015:

Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange

On a semi-related aspect, Exchange 2010 will transition into its extended support phase on the 13th of January 2015.  Please see this post for details.

Cheers,

Rhod… Read the rest “Save The Date – End Of Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange — T Minus 12 Months”

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Most Popular Blog Posts For 2014

Since 2014 is drawing to a close, I thought it would be interesting to see what were the 10 most popular articles on the blog.  For reference purposes, the top 10 from 2013 were also included for comparison.

I also wanted to wish everyone a great holiday.  If you are going skiing, staying home with family or slipping an extra shrimp on the barbie, take the time to enjoy it with your friends and fam… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2014”