For the past 3 months I have been hard at work with a client migrating from Lotus Notes to Office 365. Most migrations present some challenges, when coming from a system other than Exchange and migrating users to Office 36, there are additional challenges that present itself. In order to make the migration go smoother…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 21 – Teams PowerShell Module
Last week I wrote that Microsoft had released their Teams PowerShell module. It was rumored to not be a great PowerShell module, which could be true as it would be inline with Microsoft’s current cloud release structure which is feature first, administration (PowerShell and more) last. However, for this article we will start with an…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 20 – Teams and Skype
If you were Ignite you may have heard about the transition plans for Skype and Teams. Skype Online is being absorbed by Teams in order to provide a more unified experience. Whether or not the end user or administrator sees this as good or not, it is happening. Microsoft has also begun to add Teams…
Azure Cloud Shell Preview
Being a fan of PowerShell and having a lot of customers who are relying on the cloud means that Microsoft’s new ‘Azure Cloud Shell’ brings PowerShell awesomeness to your browser. Yes, I said Browser. To be fair, Microsoft has written up some fairly decent documentation on it and it can be found here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview….
Exchange 2016 PowerShell Book – Second Edition Release
Dave and I have been working hard and we’ve now created a book that covers the breadth of Exchange 2016’s PowerShell features. With this new edition, we’ve added an additional 100+ pages of brand new content. We now cover these topics in-depth (in addition to all the topics in the first edition): Public Folders Security…
Quick PowerShell Stuff 19
Having transitioned more and more to using PowerShell 5.0, instead of 4.0, I thought I would pass along one tip when using it. Typically when working with Exchange PowerShell and listing object attributes. I like to select a single column of the data and past it into a CSV file or documentation I am making….
Exchange 2016 CU Upgrade Failure – ‘Database is mandatory on UserMailbox’
Recently I was contacted by one of my customers that their hybrid Exchange 2016 servers failed while upgrading to Cumulative Update 6 (CU6). They were not able to get past the error. Luckily for them, about 99% of the users in their environment were already moved to the cloud, so the end users were not…
Get-Help and Exchange 2016
** Note ** Wanted to make something clear – this is an issue with Windows and PowerShell, Exchange 2016 is not the root cause of this issue. Now on to the article! A few weeks ago I ran a poll on this and it seems that a fair number of you depend on Get-Help for…
Get-Help and Exchange 2016 – Where has the quality gone?
A few weeks ago, I posted a poll concerning PowerShell on Exchange 2016 and the Get-Help cmdlets. Here are the results: As we can see, There is a near 2-1 ration of those who use Get-Help, even occasionally, to those who don’t use it at all. This would seem to indicate that this is a…
Office 365 – Custom Sensitive Information Types
Three years ago I wrote a script to create an XML file to be used for Custom Sensitive Information Types, which you can read HERE. This script could be used to create an XML file for Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016. For office 365 the XML file was importable into Exchange Online (ExO). Times have…
