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  • Blog Post: Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2014

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    This is a link throw-down for the items that we discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop that I delivered to customers in sunny Calgary. I’m posting the links here since they will be available to all of the attendees, and thought that others may also find them useful/interesting. Service Descriptions...
    on 5 Dec 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Generally the Exchange external Autodiscover DNS entity is configured as a regular A record. Sometimes a service record (SRV) is used instead. Since I have the habit of forgetting the syntax of quickly querying for the SRV record, this is one of those shared bookmark posts! Nslookup is the tool of...
    on 2 Oct 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Depending upon the version of the sync solution that you are using to replicate directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Office 365 there are different commands that you will need to use. We can see a listing of the DirSync versions on the TechNet wiki . And for AAD Sync, the version listings...
    on 1 Oct 2014

  • Blog Post: ADFS 2012 R2 - An Error Occurs When BadPwdCount Not Set

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    ADFS 2012 R2 provides an interesting feature called Extranet Lockout Protection, where the intent is to protect AD accounts from malicious lockout from external access attempts. Previous versions of ADFS had no native mechanism to protect AD from such hammering attempts. For details on the feature please...
    on 16 Jul 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The blog post on how to integrate Office 365 with Windows 2012 R2 ADFS raised an interesting question from a reader (Hi Eric!) on how should he request a certificate for the ADFS instance since there is no longer an IIS dependency.  This means that there is no longer an IIS console to generate a...
    on 17 Jun 2014

  • Blog Post: Enabling ADFS 2012 R2 Extranet Lockout Protection

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Security is an integral aspect of running modern IT operations. There is a clear understanding that we need to protect our IT assets, company data and personal identifiable information. So when we discuss a migration to Office 365, security is an inevitable topic. One aspect that we need to discuss is...
    on 5 May 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 3

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Well then, here we are in part three already! Previously we: Installed ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365 in part 1 Installed ADFS 2012 R2 Proxy For Office 365 in Part 2 Now we want to change the Office 365 domain to be a federated domain. As discussed in part 1, this means that all of the users...
    on 30 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365–Part 2

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In part one we installed the ADFS server on our corporate network, and tested that it was working. Now we need to make the ADFS infrastructure available to the Internet in a secure fashion, so that Office 365 will be able to contact the ADFS proxy to authenticate user requests. In part three we will...
    on 28 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Install ADFS 2012 R2 For Office 365

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When discussing and reviewing Office 365 with customers, I wanted to have a series of posts to illustrate the steps involved when deploying Office 365.   In the burgeoning drafts folder ADFS was at the top, so that got finished first! The act of deploying and configuring ADFS 2012 R2 for Office...
    on 28 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: Office 2010 SP2– Do You Need To Upgrade?

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Now that the Windows XP, Office 2003 and Exchange 2010 SP2 support expiration date has come and gone, the world is still turning and we are not in a state of Armageddon! * That said, focus now needs to be on Office 2010 as it is 6 months until support ends for Office 2010 SP1 on the 14th of October 2014...
    on 14 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: Kicking The Tires With Office 365

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    If you are looking for a “How To” guide to assist with getting started with Office 365 then you will want to take a look at the latest Test Lab Guides that are now available to TechNet. They were published last week and are hot off the virtual press! The Test lab Guides are intended to be a series of...
    on 20 Jan 2014

  • Blog Post: Office 365 Tech Centre

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    If you are planning to test or on-board with Office 365, have you seen the Tech Centre over on TechNet? Some great content is located there, and is well worth a read.   Cheers, Rhoderick Technorati Tags: Office 365 , O365
    on 1 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: O365 Sessions At TechEd 2013 NA

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In addition to the Exchange sessions at TechEd NA 2013, here are the O365 sessions for your viewing pleasure! Update : Lync Sessions can be found here       A Look Inside Microsoft Office 365     Choosing the Right Cloud Service   Microsoft Office 365 Deployment   Overview...
    on 6 Jun 2013

  • Blog Post: Office 2013 Click-To-Run Not Updating

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When the office updates were released last patch Tuesday, there were a couple of issues of mine that were resolved. Great, I thought, let’s download and install them! After checking that my installed build of Outlook etc. was older than the released updates I downloaded the updates from the Microsoft...
    on 28 May 2013

  • Blog Post: Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When Microsoft performs an Exchange Risk Assessment Program ( ExRAP ) with a customer there are several work items related to patching. We discuss how the: Server hardware, firmware and drivers get updated Server OS gets updated Desktop OS gets updated AV gets updated Exchange Service...
    on 18 Jul 2013