Category Archives: Office 365

Bulk Updating On-Premise Active Directory Users’ Attributes for Office 365 Batch Migration Using PowerShell.

Posted on March 21, 2016 by jbernec

In this environment, the on premise Active Directory DNS name is different from the email address public DNS name. An alternate UPN Suffix that matches the public email address DNS name has already been configured for the on premise AD … Continue reading →

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Configuring Coexistence between Legacy On Premise Public Folders and Office 365 Hybrid Configuration.

Posted on March 11, 2016 by jbernec

I’ve completed configuring Office 365 Hybrid Configuration with an on premise Exchange 2010 SP3 deployment. I’m in the process of migrating users’ mailboxes to Office 365 cloud in batches. At the same time, I’ve been doing some research and testing … Continue reading →

Posted in Exchange Management Roles, Exchange Management Shell, Microsoft Exchange, Migration, Office 365, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0 | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

PowerShell Script to Bulk Update UPN (UserPrincipalName) Suffix in a Single Non-Routable Domain.

Posted on December 9, 2015 by jbernec

As part of the Office 365 Configuration and migration project, we’ve had to define and create an alternate upn (UserPrincipalName) suffix for an internal Active Directory domain that is not publicly routable. Updating the upn for every user in the … Continue reading →

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Create a UPN Suffix using PowerShell for Office 365 Migration.

Posted on November 18, 2015 by jbernec

In preparation for Office 365 migration, we had to match the current on premise users’ logon name (UserPrincipalName) with their email addresses to eliminate any user confusion and ease the outlook authentication process .As an example, The on premise logon … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0 | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Configuring AD Group Filtering with Microsoft Azure AD Connect Tool.

Posted on August 12, 2015 by jbernec

Microsoft has finally introduced Active Directory group filtering with the release of Azure AD Connect. The one tool to replace AADSync and include ADFS functionality.In this post, I will outline my steps for setting up AAD Connect with Single sign-on, … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure AD Sync, Azure Windows PowerShell, Directory Synchronization, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Tagged | Leave a comment

Configuring Hybrid Configuration on Exchange Server 2010 SP3 for Migration to Office 365 (Exchange Online).

Posted on July 13, 2015 by jbernec

We’ve decided to initiate the migration to Office 365. For now, the plan is to start a phased migration of a third of all mailboxes to Exchange online. This will give us a chance to run an on-premise and cloud … Continue reading →

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Generate Office 365 User License Report with PowerShell.

Posted on May 27, 2015 by jbernec

As we continue expanding our Office 365 deployment from OfficeProPlus to include Exchange Online and Archiving, it’s become increasingly necessary to reconcile and report on current AD Synced and cloud users with their specific subscription and licenses quickly and efficiently. … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0 | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Configuring Azure AD Sync Attribute Filtering.

Posted on April 14, 2015 by jbernec

So I’ve been playing with AADSync attribute filtering. So far we have successfully filtered our lab Azure AD sync by Domain and Organizational Unit. It appears that group membership based filtering is not supported with this version. But according to … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Matching an Office 365 Azure Cloud user Identity with an On-premise Active Directory User Object.

Posted on April 10, 2015 by jbernec

Recently I came across a situation with our Office 365 tenant deployment where a cloud user was created before we configured and ran Azure ADSync at the on premise Active Directory. Please note that we already had a matching on … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365 | Tagged , , , , , | 6 Comments