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Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process

Posted on 29th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 12-1-2022 Please see this post which covers the newer Outlook client logic. Content below will be left as-is for a historical perspective.

This is a post for reference purposes. The intent is to look at how Outlook will locate the correct Autodiscover endpoint in a hybrid environment. This Exchange 2010 SP3 lab has a hybrid configuration with Office 365. The tenant is called TailspinToysC… Read the rest “Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process”

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AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust

Posted on 20th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the Tailspintoys environment, the administrator (moi) was a bit slack. They let the AD FS 2012 R2 proxy get into a bad state. The AD FS Proxy was not contacting the AD FS server on the internal network, and this allowed the short lived authentication certificate to expire. At this point the AD FS Proxy was “dead to me” as far as the AD FS server was concerned. The internal AD FS server was … Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust”

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Office 365 Command You Tried To Run Isn’t Currently Allowed Due To DeHydration

Posted on 27th February 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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

Posted on 11th February 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

Posted on 5th February 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

Posted on 5th February 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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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Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported

Posted on 28th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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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Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2014

Posted on 5th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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 Calgary.

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.

Service Descriptions

Exchange Online Service Description – required reading! Especially the limits … Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2014”

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How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup

Posted on 2nd October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Generally the Exchange external Autodiscover DNS entity is configured as a regular A record. Sometimes a service record (SRV) is used instead. Since I have the habit of forgetting the syntax of quickly querying for the SRV record, this is one of those shared bookmark posts!

Nslookup is the tool of choice here! Its documentation can be found on TechNet.

There are two ways to run nslookup – interac… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup”

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How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates

Posted on 1st October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Depending upon the version of the sync solution that you are using to replicate directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Office 365 there are different commands that you will need to use.

We can see a listing of the DirSync versions on the TechNet wiki. And for AAD Sync, the version listings are on MSDN. This has now been superseded with another article which has version information o… Read the rest “How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates”