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Exchange Ideas - Daniel Kenyon-Smith
I’m a Messaging consultant working for Microsoft Consultancy Services in the UK. Find out about all the latest technology, news, tips and tricks in the world of messaging and much more!
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Dirsync Database keeps on Increasing…
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over 2 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Hi Have you noticed the Office 365 directory sync database just getting larger and larger… If so try the following to clear the sync runs 1. Open the MIISClient.exe and click the Operations tab. 2. From the Actions menu, select "Clear Runs"...
Office 365 – Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW)
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over 2 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Whilst working on a few O365 engagements over the last month or so I have seen various issues that have been caused by on-premise infrastructure/setup and which have not allowed the HCW (which was introduced in Exchange 2010 SP2) to complete successfully...
AD FS Publishing and Policy Rules
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over 2 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
I’ve been working with a customer who wanted to lock down access to O365 so users can access all the services from anywhere apart from browser based access, which can only be accessed from their corporate managed devices. Here’s a quick rundown...
Office 365 Migration Issues
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over 2 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Please find a list of migration issues and resolutions that I captured during my last customers migration:- Flood mitigation on Threat Management Gateway (TMG) - http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/exchange/office-365-move-mailbox-fails-with...
Office 365 FOPE and Credit Card Rules
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Whilst working with a customer here in the UK on their O365 project, they asked about using Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) (the version that comes with O365) how to setup rules to block credit cards details. There are various rues...
Office 365 and Autodiscover
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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**This blog is based on Exchange 2010 SP1 and not using the Hybrid configuration wizard e.g. SP2** I’ve had a few customers in the last few weeks ask me how autodiscover works for Office 365 so thought i’d write a post to try and help!...
Office 365 - Non-Federated Identity, Password never expires
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
The Microsoft Online Services Module allows you manage your tenant directly and in some cases change settings you can’t change in GUI (note this can only be achieved if you’re managing accounts that have been created in the tenant e.g. not created using...
Enabling Retention Policies - Office 365
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Steps Action The first step is understand the different types of retention policies you can apply and plan appropriately See http://help.outlook.com/en-us/beta/gg271153.aspx for more details on retention policies. First create Retention Tags Create retention...
Performing a Multi Mailbox Search
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Steps Action Login to the portal Sign into https://portal.microsoftonline.com as the tenant administrator Add the user to the Discovery Management Role Select ‘Manage’ Under Exchange Online Select ‘Roles and Auditing’ and select the ‘Discovery management...
Enable a hosted (Personal) Archive for Office 365
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Steps Action Configure the ‘Office 365 Tenant’ Organization Relationship Get-OrganizationRelationship "Office 365 Tenant" | fl Run - Set-OrganizationRelationship "Office 365 Tenant" -ArchiveAccessEnabled $true Start a remote PowerShell...
Enable Mailtips - Office 365
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Steps Action Enable on-premise Mailtips Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "Office 365 Tenant" -MailTipsAccessEnabled $True -MailTipsAccessLevel all Enable Office 365 Mailtips Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "On-Prem" -MailTipsAccessEnabled...
Enable Mailbox Moves–Office 365
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Steps Actions Enable move mailboxes for the organization relationship Run Set-OrganizationRelationship -id "Office 365 Tenant" -MailboxMoveEnabled $True Note: The MailboxMoveEnabled parameter specifies that the organization relationship...
Enabling Calendar Sharing - Office 365
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Steps Action Enable free/busy calendar sharing on-premise Run the following command Set-SharingPolicy ‘Default Sharing Policy’ –domains ‘*: CalendarSharingFreeBusySImple’, ‘Company.com:CalendarSharingFreeBusyReviewer, ContactsSharing’, ‘Company.onmicrosoft...
Adding and Exchange forest to the EMC
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Steps Actions Add the online tenant to the on-premise EMC In the on-premises EMC right click ‘Microsoft Exchange’ and select add forest In the drop down list specify ‘Exchange Online’ as the external exchange forest and specify your Office 365...
Enabling and Managing Federation
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Steps Action Configure a remote domain to be used with Office 365 Launch on-premises Exchange Management console (EMC), navigate to Hub Transport and select new remote domain in the actions pane Create a new Accepted domain Create a new Accepted domain...
Office 365 Directory Synchronization
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Dirsync is required to support Single Sign On (SSO) and creates Mail Enabled Users (MEU) in the cloud tenant. Installing Dirsync allows you have a unified Global Address List (GAL) between on-premise and cloud (Office 365). It also allows you to...
Adding and Verifying a Federated Domain
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Steps Action Launch Microsoft Online Services Identity Federation Management tool At the PowerShell command prompt type Type $cred = Get-Credential In the pop up window specify the username used for online account management (your Office 365 administrator...
Configuring ADFS v2.0 for Office 365
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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1 Here are the steps i followed for configuring ADFS for Office 365 (see my previous post for installing ADFS) Steps Action Click, Start, Admin Tools, ADFS 2.0 Management Click ...
Installing Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) v2.0
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Here are the steps i followed when installing ADFS 2.0 Steps Action Start the ADFS installation Launch AdfsSetup.exe On the Welcome to the ADFS 2.0 Setup Wizard page, click Next Accept the End-User License Agreement and click Next Select the required...
Office 365 Namespace Requirements
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over 3 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Please find a list of typical namespaces that are required when setting up and installing Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 and rich coexistence/hybrid with Office 365 Namespace Value Description ...
Exchange 2010 SP1 /Hosting
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over 4 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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This is the process i followed to installed Exchange 2010 SP1 in hosting mode 1. Run the following command: setup /prepareschema /hosting 2. Run setup /prepareAD /organizationName:EXCHANGE /hosting 3. To install individual server roles run:- a...
When I use the move-mailbox command will my Outlook clients need to recreate their .OST files?
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over 4 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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I’ve had the same question come up a few times recently so thought I'd blog about it as i assumed this is a FAQ. When migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2007 will Outlook need to regenerate the .OST file? The short answer is…no, it doesn't need to be created...
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Capacity Planning Tool
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over 4 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Take a look at the PFE 2010 capacity planning tool to ensure you have correct capacity (memory and CPU) by specifying your PFE protection settings It can be downloaded here Written by Daniel Kenyon-Smith
The Name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site - PART 2
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over 4 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
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Once the cert has been installed you will need to enable the cert, you can run the following command to enable the certificate Enable-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint 59 5e a4 7c f0 c0 4f 64 dc 3d 6d 29 95 f7 c4 b1 72 ca 0f 92 -Services "SMTP, IIS"...
The Name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site - PART 1
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over 4 years ago
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Dan Kenyon-smith
Whilst building a test environment for a customer i came across this error ‘The Name on the certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site’ so thought I'd write up how I resolved it. The environment was Exchange 2007 SP1 and I was configuring...
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