This Quick PowerShell blog article will cover how to test that a server can receive a remote PowerShell request (like Invoke-Command), how to add this ability an at the end remove the changes if need be as well. The reason I wrote this code is that I am in the process of creating health check…
GDPR and Secure Score
What a great way to start off the new year…. an article on Office 365 and new regulations coming before mid-year 2018. For my past two blog articles I’ve covered quite a bit of details on what Secure Score can offer you and your Office 365 tenant. What I wanted to do for this article…
Office 365 Secure Score: Practical & In-Depth Analysis
*** WARNING *** – This is a long, long, long article. This is the second in a series of articles on the Office 365 Secure Score feature. In the first article I covered the basic interface and usage of the Secure Score feature. In this article I will review it more in-depth and cover the…
Office 365 Secure Score: An Introduction
If you have an Office 365 tenant and you have explored the Security and Compliance Center. On your dashboard, or home screen, you may have noticed an item called ‘Office 365 Secure Score’. It should look something like this: Now, your score will be different (higher or lower) depending on the features you have enabled…
Keeping Exchange 2016 Up to Date – .NET Ramifications
Update – 2/15/2018 There may be a change in the way that Microsoft will support upgrades from older CU’s to the latest CU of Exchange 2013 or 2016. If we review the Exchange Server Supportability Matrix we see that in the .NET section, there is this note: “When upgrading Exchange from an unsupported CU to…
Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) Hangs on ‘Adding Federated Domain’
During a migration with a client we ran the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, as is a usual process for a migration, we ran into an issue. The HCW validating the domain, using the required TXT record, and while federating the domain, the wizard got stuck on ‘Adding Federated Domain’, like so:
Exchange 2016 Prerequisite Script is Updated – V1.12
If you are looking for a script to help you install all the prerequisites for Exchange 2016 CU8 and above, I’ve just released my newest version, v1.12, of the script. Currently it is listed on the TechNet Gallery for download. Here is the new and updated menu for the script: You can download the script…
New Interesting Tiles – Office 365
Recently I noticed some tiles that appeared on my E3 tenant that I received as an MVP benefit. The tile exposes some new training options that are available to Office 365 Admins: New Training Options Train Yourself – Office 365 small business – training Train Your People – Office 365 Training Center Advanced Admin Training…
The move object info message is too large. Current size 17,592,186,042,368 MB limit 480 MB
THAT message. Yes THAT message. I received this for a bunch of mailboxes I was moving From Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. The complete error is confounding and does not make much sense: So what is the solution? The error’s solution is rather simple. There is an existing move request for the mailbox being moved….
Outlook 2016 and Exchange 2010 Public Folder Woes
Upon finishing my last project and stopping to take a look back at the past year or so I’ve realized that most (90%+) involved Office 365. Quite a dramatic change from my previous rate of around 50%. I have worked on a couple of migrations over the past year that revealed that Outlook 2016 is…
