When I opened up Outlook this morning I was prompted with a message saying that I had a new feature in Outlook, the ability to see who I am meeting with by viewing all responses to meeting requests. I did some quick testing of this to see whether it was just internal meetings/recipients. Sure enough, … More New Outlook Feature: See all meeting responses when not the organiser
Good news! Focused Inbox is now live in Exchange Online! Bad news, it is enabled by default for new mailboxes, even for migrated users, which could see a massive change in behaviour that you/your users aren’t expecting! Thankfully, if you are using the latest version of the Exchange Online PowerShell Module you can manage these … More Quick Tip: Managing Focused Inbox in Exchange Online
Whilst setting up a lab for another blog post I am writing I ran into an issue in my new Exchange environment where after I logged in to the EAC login page as normal I see nothing but a blank screen. As I have just been setting up my lab I have just updated the … More Exchange 2016 – Blank page after logging into EAC
Whilst moving a client to OneDrive for Business recently we experienced occasions where individual machines would not show the shortcut to their OneDrive folder in Windows Explorer by default (See Below). The steps below are how to manually set the registry to show this shortcut. Press (“Windows Key” + r) to open “Run” dialog box. … More How to manually set OneDrive for Business to show in Windows Explorer
Recently I have run across this issue in a couple of different virtual environments and have only found the fix today! I saw some strange behaviour where my virtual server was unable to ping another server in my virtual environment with the error: “Ping request could not find host server.domain.com”, but when I run an … More Quick Tip: Fix “Ping request could not find host” when NSLookup still works
To start out the new year I thought I would return to something a little more basic but I always need to refer back to when building a new machine for myself or if I lose my PowerShell Profile (read more about those here). Connecting to Exchange Online and/or Skype for Business Online PowerShell. I … More How To: Connect PowerShell to Exchange Online/Skype for Business Online
I have been doing quite a few deployments of AAD Connect recently, and I have run across the error when synchronising the local directory “missing-partition-for-run-step” a couple of times. This will occur when you are synchronising a Forest where not all of the domains in the Forest will be synchronised, and you have removed them from the local … More AD Sync Error – missing-partition-for-run-step
Hi all, we have been asked the question quite a lot recently about how to retrieve a list of users after a migration who have a mailbox but no license, something that needs to be remediated before the 30 Day grace period expires. This can be achieved with a single line of PowerShell once connected … More Quick Tip – Querying Licensed Users in Office 365
Just a quick post today, had a requirement to get a list of users created in the last day and the last week for a customer in Exchange Online. This can be done via simple one liner as follows: get-mailbox -Filter {whencreated -gt “6/30/2015”} NOTE: Even if you look at an individual’s mailbox and it … More Quick Tip – Find List of Users Created in Last Week – Exchange Online
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