Category: Office 365
If you work in a MS-based environment, it is likely you have seen that as of January 27th 2025, you will start getting charged for retained OneDrive data. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/unlicensed-onedrive-accounts?WT.mc_id=365AdminCSH_spo The storage cost for the will be $US 0.05/GB/Month - which can add up very quickly. https://mc.merill.net/message/MC836942 In the environment i've recently started working in, there…
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This is a somewhat niche issue - which is why im documententing it here. Scenario Exchange migration to exchange online which i came into approx 75% of the way through - so i don't have any history on why some things have happened (and there is no useful doco) Tenant wide retention policies are in…
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Working at a client whom are approx 75% of the way through their migration to exchange online - and there are some odd things im running into - so here's one of them. The scenario and issue Exchange hybrid setup, with servers on prem and EXO active. Active mailboxes in both. Mail flow from on…
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A great post by MS on how to identify clients using basic auth against office 365. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/basic-auth-and-exchange-online-february-2020-update/ba-p/1191282
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Have you ever had the experience of providing users a document management system or Sharepoint site only to find that everyone uses it differently, creates folders all over the place in different ways, stores documents differently and after six months time it's so hard to find anything that it defeats the purpose for which it…
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While hybrid exchange environments are awesome for stretching your on premise exchange topology to Office 365, they do introduce a bunch of complexity - primarily around user creation, licensing, and mail flow. I recently had an issue at a client where they had email bounce-backs from an on premise service destined for a few Exchange…
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I've had various versions of AD Sync/Azure AD Connect running in my development environment over the years, and have used a number of different service accounts when testing out different configurations or new features. Needless to say, the permissions for my Sync account were probably a bit of a mess. Recently, I wanted to try…
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I recently had a client experience an issue with their hybrid exchange setup (365/On Premise) - users were suddenly unable to retrieve free/busy and calendar information between the two environments. As it turns out, the certificate used to secure communications to the Microsoft Federation Gateway (MFG) had expired. Federation certificates within exchange are generally created…
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Depending on how you utilise Skype for Business, you may have no requirement to maintain a hybrid environment once all users are within Skype for Business online. Documentation around decommissioning the on premise environment was surprisingly sparse. One of the better documents around web was here - but it still stopped a little short, in…
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In the past I've had a few clients request scripts to automatically set/assign licenses to users in Office 365 – Generally pretty simple stuff. Recently I had a client ask to disable a particular service within a license – again, not all that difficult – unless you want to actually check if a license/service is…
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