My name is Darryl Kegg and I am a Senior Deployment Consultant at Microsoft, I am part of the Premier Deployment team within the America’s Cloud Services group deploying Office 365. My … [Keep Reading]
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Provisioning Remote Object Types in Exchange Online
Many times, once a customer has migrated from Exchange on-premises to Exchange Online, they want to completely decommission ALL on-premises Exchange servers. The issue this presents is that on-prem AD is authoritative … [Keep Reading]
Fattening up an Exchange mailbox
Sometimes when doing mailbox testing it's necessary to actually bloat a mailbox for the purposes of benchmarking the speed of a mailbox move to Office 365, rather than risk sending sensitive data, … [Keep Reading]
Creating secondary proxy addresses
Often times it may become necessary to stamp an additional SMTP address (proxy address) on a user account, either as part of a migration, or organizational domain name change etc…
Here’s a … [Keep Reading]
Duplicating an on-prem mail-enabled security group as a cloud DL
Many Office 365 customers run into problems in a non-hybrid (simple coex) configuration where they used to have on-premise mail-enabled security groups, but they alllowed the group owners to update membership using … [Keep Reading]
Duplicating your production AAD Connect sync rules on your staging server using the AAD Connect Helper Module
Once upon a time, migrating your AAD Connect primary sync server configuration to your staging server was a simple matter of using the Get-ADSyncServerConfiguration and Set-ADSyncServerConfiguration cmdlets provided as part of the … [Keep Reading]
Group Nesting Report for Exchange Online Distribution Lists
Back in 2011 I created a script that provided a group nesting report for on-premises AD groups using the Quest ActiveRoles cmdlets, you can find that here. However recently I needed … [Keep Reading]
A tale of two forests…
… and FIM … and PCNS
I recently had a colleague ask if I remembered how to configure FIM with PCNS between 2 forests, so that when a password was reset in … [Keep Reading]
AAD Connect scheduled task with Weekend Fulls
Quite a long time ago, one of my customers expressed a need for a custom PowerShell script that could be run as a scheduled task that would allow them to run a … [Keep Reading]
Dealing with AAD Connect, GalSync and Hybrid writeback to Contacts
I recently had a customer ask why they’re constantly seeing writeback to contact objects in the GalSync container, which seem to come and go without rhyme or reason. Well, there’s definitely a … [Keep Reading]