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]
Tag: Powershell
PowerShell Test-Transcription
Recently I needed a way to test if transcription was running, and sadly all the articles I found with my Bing searches provided methods that don’t work. Largely due, I suspect, to … [Keep Reading]
Testing AAD Connect Write-Back permissions on an OU
When installing and configuring AAD Connect with Exchange Hybrid and any of the other special features (Group Writeback, Password Writeback, Device Writeback), it’s necessary to delegate service account permissions in Active Directory … [Keep Reading]
DN value in AAD Sync AAD Connect – the NEW format
DirSync \ FIM used to use the Immutable ID value in the Azure connector space, making it somewhat straightforward to search for objects in the Azure CS using the ImmutableID (either copied … [Keep Reading]
Powershell, The Clipboard, and re-living the past …
One of my favorite Powershell features is the ability to export the output of pretty much anything to the clipboard using | clip
I've found that piping to clip is much easier … [Keep Reading]
msExchRemoteRecipientType
When dealing with attributes synced to O365 via FIM \ DirSync \ AAD Sync, you will frequently encounter the msExchRemoteRecipient type attribute, previously empty in on-prem Exchange (only msExchRecipientTypeDetails and msExchRecipientDisplayType had … [Keep Reading]
Get-MSOLUserWithValidationError
I sometimes find that the validation error detail in the portal is less than helpful, and getting the verbiage from powershell can be a bit tricky, so I wrote the following Powershell … [Keep Reading]
Get-O365user.ps1 = MSOLuser and EXOUser and EXOMailUser or EXOUserMailbox attributes combined!
Have you ever been troubleshooting Exchange Online (EXO) and MSOnline (Azure) objects and wished there was a way to aggregate all the data together into a single object that you could manipulate … [Keep Reading]
Ugly GALsync
I often ( frequently, not someone who has lost his parents* ) find that while I am testing FIM joins and attribute flows, I would like to maintain contact objects in forest … [Keep Reading]
So what comes after the …
If you're like me, you constantly find yourself running powershell scripts and one or more array never returns the full list, it adds that pesky … whether or not you try the … [Keep Reading]