Spam is the bane of all messaging administrators, as well as a major pain for all email users. Using email means a consistent battle against spam, malware, and unwanted nonsense flooding your inbox. There are a number of different tools and tactics we, as administrators, can use to reduce the impact of these attacks and recently Microsoft has added another one to the toolboxes of Office 365 customers. In this blog post I'm going to explain what DKIM is, and how you can use it to help make the world a safer place for legitimate email messages.
Read MoreActive Directory Synchronization for Office 365 and Azure has been a vital, but fairly straight forward, part of Office 365 migrations for almost 5 years now. DirSync was updated to Azure Active Directory Sync, and AAD Sync was updated to Azure Active Directory Connect. In this blog post, I’m going to cover everything you need to know about deploying the newest version of AAD Connect
Read MoreFind out how Microsoft Office 365 makes it possible for information workers, who were formerly required to work in an office building, to do their jobs from anywhere with an internet connection. O’Bryan covers the major features in Office 365 including:
- Groups
- Planner
- SharePoint Online
- OneDrive for Business
- Skype for Business
- Office 365 mobile apps
- Mobile Device Management (MDM)
- InTune
- Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS)
In Part 1 of this series, we covered the basics of setting up filtering for AAD Connect and the details of setting up domain filtering. In Part 2, we covered up the process of setting up OU filtering for AAD Connect. In Part 3, we’re going to cover setting up attribute filtering.
Read MoreAs DirSync evolved to AAD Sync, and AAD Sync evolved to AAD Connect, there have been significant changes to the way we accomplish tasks with these tools.
With the recent release of Azure Active Directory Connect v 1.1, Microsoft has made several updates to how various aspects of the process of syncing your on-premises Active Directory accounts into Azure Active Directory. There have been some pretty significant changes in a couple of areas, with one of those being sync filtering. In this series of blogs posts, I’m going to walk you through the options and processes for filtering your sync jobs.
Read MoreIf you've even participated in an Exchange Online migration at almost any level, it's likely you've run into the issue of cross-forest delegation. You know that Exchange allows you to delegate rights from one mailbox to another, allowing users to access other mailboxes. When you do an Exchange hybrid migration, there are some special considerations you have to take to keep these delegated rights working. Depending on who you ask, you'll get all kinds of different answers about what works when. In this blog post I will explain the confusing case of cross-forest delegation, and what you can expect to work or not work.
Read MoreWelcome back. If you’ve read the first two posts in this series (Part 1, Part2), then your caught up. If not, I’d suggest you go back to those before proceeding on with this one. In this post, we’re going to talk about some new information about OOS, and some points I missed in the first two parts.
Read MoreYour new OOS farm can be connected to any version of Exchange from 2007 to 2016. Connecting OOS to any version of Exchange previous to Exchange 2016 just allows users to open documents from OWA within the browser. That is not a terribly compelling feature, and I don’t recall ever deploying WAC for a customer to be used for just Exchange. The few times that I have connected WAC to Exchange, it was intended to be used for Lync or SharePoint and just connected to Exchange “because it was there”.
Read MoreOne of the new features of Exchange 2016 is the inclusion of “Modern Attachments”. Modern Attachments are not attachments at all, but links to Office documents that are stored within SharePoint sites but presented to look like attachments within email messages. Modern Attachments are a great step forward in that they allow users to continue to use attachments in the way they are used to while removing those files from your Exchange 2016 servers.
Read MoreThis is not really a surprise. I’ve been telling customers who are in the process of moving to Office 365 that they will need to stay current with their on-premises software for years.
If your organization is moving to Office 365, you HAVE TO align your organization to the new reality that the cloud moves forward, and it’s not going to wait for you.
Read MoreIn the first article in this series, I coved the basic GUI based ways that you can use RBAC in Exchange Online to allow users to control their own contact information in Exchange Online and to allow you to designate administrators with limited sets of rights.
In this article, I’m going to show you how to really use RBAC. We’re going to dive into PowerShell and see how to do things like give an administrator rights to manage a specific sub-set of your users.
Read MoreA common request I get while doing migrations into Exchange Online is to assist customers in setting up permissions so that they can limit administrator's rights and scope to control Exchange Online. The solution for this problem is Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and it can be a little confusing to setup.
In this article I am going to start into the easier, GUI based options for setting up RBAC in Exchange Online. If you're looking for the more advanced RBAC controls, skip ahead to Part 2.
Read MoreDelve is a new service in Office 365 that is designed to assist in discovering information that is relevant to you from within your organizations Office 365 tenant. Selecting the home screen in the Delve tile will show you a screen filled with tiles that link to documents throughout your Office 365 tenant.
Read MoreWith the next version of Windows Server, presumably called Windows Server 2016, we’ll be getting a new version of AD FS. I would love to call this new version AD FS 4.0, but Microsoft has not confirmed that name yet. Whatever it ends up being called, the next version of AD FS is going to contain some significant improvements. In this post I want to look at one of those improvements, Access Control Policies.
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