This is an interesting tale, and is something I have never seen done before in all my time working with Exchange. The client had managed to tweak the configuration of Exchange and modify the CAS configuration so significantly that Exchange was absolutely confused. Specifically, the CAS Array was modified so much that Autodiscover was no longer handing out the CASArray name to clients. This was … Read the rest “I Am Zorg – CASArray Destroyer”
When you have fun time flies, and that has certainly happened with blogging here. There are now over three hundred posts on the blog dating back to October 2011. The two hundred mark was in September 2015.
Than you for all the support and feedback over the years – it is very much appreciated!
As always, do leave a comment saying what you found useful and why. If there are topics that are of intere… Read the rest “Third Century of Blog Posts”
Here we are in part three already! Previously we completed the below two phases in the AD FS deployment.
How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365
How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 2
This post assumes that the domain was previously added as a standard domain, also called managed, and the domain will require conversion. Now we want to change the Office 365 domain to be a federated domain.… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 3”
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”
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”
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.
Start with these three articles:
How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity… Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – May 2017”
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”
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”
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”
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”