Category: migration
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Migrating from AADConnect Sync to Entra Connect Cloud Sync Correctly
At the time of writing this blog post, the Microsoft guide for doing an AADConnect to Entra ID Cloud Sync migration is lacking quite a lot of detail. It contains the sum of two self referencing documents, one of which is a guide to doing the migration in a lab environment and the other is…
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Post Tenant To Tenant Migration Calendaring Issues
When you perform a Microsoft 365 tenant to tenant (T2T) migration and run a migration that is either staged over some time or sometime after the migration has completed you cutover the domains from the old tenant to the new tenant (that is, you were doing a rebrand and the new tenant had a new…
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Exchange Hybrid Wizard – New Tenants and Missing Errors
Rumoured to be fixed end of June 2023 A short blog post on this issue – you see in the Microsoft Exchange Server Hybrid Configuration Wizard logs the following error “Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: Connecting to remote server outlook.office365.com failed with the following error message : For more information,…
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Force Mailbox Migration With Bad Items To Complete (2020)
It used to be easy to complete an Exchange Server > Exchange Online move request that had bad items, but this has changed recently. In the last short while Move Requests (and Migration Batches) have begun to include a property called DataConsistencyScore If the result from the above is “Investigate” then you will not be…
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Public Folder Migrations and the Changing Cmdlets
To complete a public folder migration from Exchange 2013/2016 to Exchange Online you need to run Set-OrganizationConfig -PublicFolderMailboxesLockedForNewConnections $true But if you look at lots of the documentation that is out there with their tips and tricks etc. you will see that lots of them say: Set-OrganizationConfig –PublicFoldersLockedForMigration $true So very near – but its…
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Public Folder Sync–Duplicate Name Error
I came across this error with a client today and did not find it documented anywhere – so here it is! When running the Public Folder sync script Sync-ModernMailPublicFolders.ps1 which is part of the process of preparing your Exchange Online environment for a public folder migration, you see the following error message: UpdateMailEnabledPublicFolder : Active…
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CannotEnterFinalizationTransientException On Exchange Move Request
Did not find a lot on the internet on this particular error, so I guess it does not happen very often, but in my case it delayed to move of the mailbox in question by a week or so until I could resolve it. When a mailbox is moving to a different Exchange organization (cross-forest…
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Copy Links and Backlinks Between Users and Shared Mailboxes (automapping)
Automap for shared mailboxes does not work across forests when moving mailboxes. When the user is granted permission to a shared mailbox, the default behaviour of automapping means that the shared mailbox has msExchDelegateListLink set to the DN of the user, and the backlink (hidden in AD by default) on the user is populated with…
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420 4.2.0 RESOLVER.ADR.Ambiguous; ambiguous address
This error can turn up in Exchange Server when Exchange Server is trying to resolve the object that it should deliver a message to. Exchange queries Active Directory and expect that if the object exists in the directory, that the object exists only once. If the object exists more than once, this is the error…
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Exchange Online Migration Batches–How Long Do They Exist For
When you create a migration batch in Exchange Online, the default setting for a migration is to start the batch immediately and complete manually. So how long can you leave this batch before you need to complete it? As you can see from the below screenshot, the migration batch here was created on Feb 19th,…