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Administrators, AADConnect and AdminSDHolder Issues (or why are some accounts having permission-issue)
[Scripts updated 5th October 2017 to support updates for Exchange Hybrid Writeback. If you ran earlier versions of these scripts you will need to run them again] AdminSDHolder is something I come across a lot, but find a lot of admins are unaware of it. In brief it is any user that is a member […]
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OU Filtering in AADConnect–What They Grey Boxes Mean
So I had the chance to check this today. If you do OU filtering in the DirSync tools you will get an OU structure with various grey boxes in it. Here is an example: It appears that both and are options in the sync tool. You get the first (grey with a tick ) if […]
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Unable To Remove Office 365 Domain Error
If you need to remove a domain from Office 365 it needs to not be in use. This includes the services that use that domain, for example an Accepted Domain in Exchange Online. If though you have an expired, maybe test, Office 365 tenant and you want to remove a domain from it you may […]
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Creating Mailboxes in Office 365 When Using DirSync
This blog post describes the process to create a new user in Active Directory on-premises when email is held in Office 365 and DirSync is in use. With DirSync in use the editable copy of the user object is on-premises and most attributes cannot be modified in the cloud. Creating the User Open Active Directory […]
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Managing Azure Active Directory Rights Management
This article is the third in a series of posts looking at Microsoft’s new Rights Management product set. In the previous post we looked at turning on the feature in Office 365 and in this post we will look at how to manage the service in the cloud. In this series of articles we will […]
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The New Rights Management Service
This blog is the start of a series of articles I will write over the next few months on how to ensure that your data is encrypted and secured to only the people you want to access it, and only for the level of rights you want to give them. The technology that we will […]
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Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Spam Filtering to Outlook’s Junk E-Mail Folder
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is a cloud hosted email anti-spam and antivirus filtering system. Amongst the options to filter away your spam, one of the options to to allow the email to be flagged and sent on into your on-premises email system, and then managing it there. If you have Exchange 2007 or […]
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Office 365 DirSync Schedule
The DirSync process sync’s every three hours by default, with a random number between 1 and 10 minutes is added to the SyncTimeInterval to provide an additional time buffer to this three hour period. This schedule can be changed by editing Microsoft.Online.DirSync.Scheduler.exe.Config in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Online Directory Sync. Change to read a different value for hours:minutes:seconds […]