Microsoft’s naming changes for Windows 10 updates can be a little confusing. Here’s a little guide to describe the latest terminology and a mapping between the old and new terms. As you will likely already know, Microsoft has shifted from a new release of Windows every few years to a ‘windows as a service’ model. …
Here’s a script I’ve written that can be added as a scheduled task on the SCVMM server to send a daily report to selected people containing all the currently outstanding checkpoints on the Hyper-V hosts. This is done without having to store any plain text passwords (they are stored but in an encrypted format). It…
I was getting pretty confused with the various options around powershell commands to use with Exchange online. For example, to add a user to a distribution group in O365, I had come across 4 different commands:
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[cc lang="powershell"]Add-AzureADGroupMember Add-AzureRMADGroupMember Add-DistributionGroupMember Add-MsolGroupMember[/cc] |
So after some digging I realised that the *-AzureRM* are powershell cmdlets to modify general Azure resources using…
I recently wrote this script that creates an O365 mailbox within a hybrid exchange environment, creating all the necessary attributes etc in exchange and AD Log all output to a local logfile, that is unique each time and won’t get overwritten
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[cc lang="powershell"]Start-Transcript -Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA"CloudwyseLogs"$(get-date -Format ddMMyy_HHmmss)".log" -NoClobber[/cc] |
Clear output from the screen to prevent previous command being sent as first…
This only applies to new Active Directory users. To look at how to use SMTP matching to link an on-prem user to an existing O365 mailbox in a hybrid environment follow this guide.1. Log into the Exchange Admin Center: https://mail.contoso.com/ecp2. In the EAC console of your on-premises hybrid server, go to Recipients > Mailboxes and click…
The scenario is that a user account has been created in Office 365 in a hybrid setup. This scenario is actually ok and is supported by Microsoft. However, it causes problems for an Office 365 user when they require access to public folders on the on-premises Exchange server. First make sure you have the correct…