This past month I was tasked with integrating an on premises Active Directory (AD) and Exchange environment with an existing Office 365 tenant. The difference between this project and all of the others I’d previously performed is that the customer’s Office 365 tenant only had a subscription for Office 365 ProPlus and the default domain was being…
If an authoritative time server has not been configured for a Windows domain then each of the individual servers (and workstations) in that domain will attempt to set their time from Microsoft–which isn’t always a reliable source. As a result, machines could all have different times set on them, and be out of sync–which is…
These are some high level projects tasks I put together based on an existing Office 365 tenant who is creating a “greenfield” (new) on premise Active Directory forest/domain for the purpose of being able to manage Office 365 users through the utilization of Active Directory synchronization. 1. Connect to Office 365 via Azure AD PowerShell…
Review the complete Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) server requirements here. UPDATE: As of 28 December 2016, AAD Connect version 1.1.380.0 was released (78.1 MB). Server Requirements (Highlights) Windows Server 2008 Standard or newer The machine must be 64-bit OS and can be installed on a stand-alone, member server or domain controller (DC), however, it is not recommended to…
Use Case: Needed a quick and dirty way to update on premise Active Directory user objects in preparation to sync with a new Office 365 tenant for a client who was migrating to Exchange Online from a POP3 service … with no on premise Exchange. The following script allows us to update the email field, add a default proxy address,…
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