Tag: Office 365

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

  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 environment for the purpose of facilitating the Office 365 onboarding process. The first step in…

  jbernec

  March 21, 2016

  Batch Migration, Exchange 2010 SP2, Exchange Online, Office 365, Onboarding, PowerShell, Windows Azure PowerShell

  Azure AD Connect Office 365, Azure AD Windows PowerShell, Cmdlets, Directory Synchronization, Exchange Online, Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Mailbox Batch Migration, Offboarding, Office 365, Office 365 Migration, Onboarding

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

  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 on the best way to synchronize legacy public folders  with Office 365 mailboxes. The following…

  jbernec

  March 11, 2016

  Exchange Management Roles, Exchange Management Shell, Microsoft Exchange, Migration, Office 365, PowerShell, Powershell 4.0

  Azure AD Connect Office 365, Office 365, Office 365 Migration

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

  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 hybrid deployment in real time then determine whether to fully move forward or rollback. An…

  jbernec

  July 13, 2015

  Azure AD Sync, Directory Synchronization, Office 365

  Azure AD Sync, Directory Synchronization, Exchange Online, Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Hybrid Configuration Wizard, Office 365

• Generate Office 365 User License Report with PowerShell.

  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. I want to post a quick PowerShell one-liner that generates a report on current Office…

  jbernec

  May 27, 2015

  Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell, PowerShell 3.0, Powershell 4.0

  Azure AD Windows PowerShell, Office 365, OfficeProPlus, PowerShell 4.0, Scripts

• Configuring Azure AD Sync Attribute Filtering.

  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 Microsoft, the Azure AD Connect tool (currently in Preview 2 version) which will eventually replace…

  jbernec

  April 14, 2015

  Active Directory, Active Directory Domain Services, AD Forest, Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365, PowerShell

  AADSync Filtering, Azure AD Sync, Cloud, Office 365, OfficeProPlus, Synchronization Rules Editor

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

  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 premise Active Directory user object with similar attributes. This resulted in an error after attempting…

  jbernec

  April 10, 2015

  Azure Windows PowerShell, Office 365

  Azure AD Windows PowerShell, Azure ADSync, ImmutableID, ObjectGUID, Office 365, PowerShell