Your guide to Azure!
How cool would it be to automate your daily SQL tasks using Azure Automation? Well, really cool off course! So lets start using Azure Automation! So go ahead, if you don’t have an automation account yet, create one by going to Automation Accounts.
Give your automation account an name, choose a subscription, resource group and a location and hit the create button!
If you have a large on premise environment, you might want to automate the assignment of Office 365 licenses by using (dynamic) security groups in Azure AD. With this simple manual you should be able to setup automatic license assignment based on a security group.
Office 365 Groups are easy to create. However, changing the primary domain name when creating the group might not be that easy from the GUI. However, with Power Shell you can change this easily.
First we will need to open a Power Shell Window, and connect with Exchange Online.
$Credential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $Credential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session
Next, we just need to change the 2 value’s below, and run it. After running, you don’t get a confirmation. It might take up to 30 minutes before changes are visible in all Office 365 and/or Azure portals.
Set-UnifiedGroup –Identity "Group name" –PrimarySmtpAddress primaryaddress@2azure.nl
Credits: Martin van de Giessen
With the move to the cloud there might be a time where you would like to remove the Active Directory link (AD Connect) and go for a cloud only strategy. With a few simple steps you can disconnect the AD connect sync from Azure AD.
When you look in your Office 365 environment you will notice that the sync status has different symbols. One for cloud only, and one for Active Directory. To disable the link, open a PowerShell window and run the following steps.
STEP 1: First make sure that you disable the AD Connect sync service by disabling the service, or set it to staging mode.
STEP 2: Connect to your Microsoft Office 365 environment using the following command, and login to the desired environment:
connect-msolservice
STEP 3: Now run the following command to disable the sync, confirm your actions, you cannot undo this change!
Continue reading “Convert AD domain users to Azure AD users (Manual)”There are situations where you would like to enforce an update of the Exchange Global Address list (GAL) in Office 365. With a few steps this can easily be done!
Requirements:
Exchange Online EXO V2 module, install using: Import-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
STEP 1: First we will need to make sure that our admin account has the correct permissions. Go to the Exchange Online Admin center, and then to permissions – admin roles and click on the + sign to add a new role
We will now create a new role group. Give it the name Address List Management and assign the role Address lists, and make sure to add the administrator account as a member. Click Save when ready.
Continue reading “Update Exchange Online Global Address List (GAL)”When you create a new Office 365 tenant, all user mailboxes will have the default timezone and language. In my case, I work in the Netherlands, the preference for most companies is to set the Time zone to Central European Time (GMT +1) and the language of the users default folders to Dutch.
You can either ask the users to logon to webmail using https://outlook.office.com and fill in the first time question to set the time zone and default language. But how cool would it be to do this for all your users using PowerShell?
With the Azure AD Premium P2 license you are entitled for Azure AD Identity Protection. You will get the option in Conditional Access to assign risk level based options to your policies. Azure AD Identity Protection can detect six different types of suspicious sign-in activities with 3 different levels of risks.
With the riks levels combined with conditional access policies we can protect sensitive application and data access. With this article I am going to show you how to create risk-based conditional access policies
So let’s create a Policy and get Conditional Access applied with risk levels
Step 1: Log in to the Azure Portal: https://portal.azure.com
Continue reading “Azure Risk based conditional access explained and how to set it up!”When you’re migrating from one Exchange environment to another, or from on-premise to Exchange online without using the hybrid setup, the most forgotten part is the migration of the users x500 address. The reason why this is so important is because Exchange uses this to deliver local emails instead of the SMTP address that is normally associated with email. (This also goes along for calendar appointments)
So, by not migrating the x500 address it means that communications will fail when changing calendar appointments, or replying on old emails. To prevent this we will need to export the ExchangeLegacyDN from Active Directory, and import it again as a ProxyAddress in Active Directory.
Step 1: From your source Active Directory, look up the distinguishedName, and copy the content of the value.
Continue reading “PowerShell script to export and import legacy Exchange x500 addresses (Manual)”Last few weeks I’ve been struggling with an very difficult Office 365 / Exchange Online case, that got escalated to multiple Microsoft departments to be fixed. I already found one part of the solution, but Microsoft found the second part. Today I would like to take you through all the steps to fix possible causes and resolutions. So the initial problem started with the following error in the Office 365 admin portal with the affected users:
Another symptom is the mailbox provisioning gets stuck, and hangs on “We are preparing a mailbox for this user”
You will only see this error with AD connect sync enabled environments. The problem occurs when the on-premise value mismatches with the Online Archive Guid. With just a few easy steps we can fix this issue.
We will need to fill multiple Active Directory user attributes to resolve this issue.
Continue reading “How to solve Failed to sync the ArchiveGuid in Office 365 (Manual)”You want to move your mailboxes from Exchange on-premise to Office 365, and you want to give you users a smooth transition experience, then you will definitely need to implement the following to automatically create and configure a new Outlook profile on all Windows devices.
Within Outlook Microsoft has created ZeroConfigExchange to setup new profiles with minimal user interaction. Depending on your exact configuration Outlook will be configured fully automatically, or the user is required to fill in his email address and/or password.
Continue reading “Create new Outlook profile after Office 365 mail migration using GPO (Manual)”Microsoft released Lighthouse last weekend, and since this is a great feature, I wanted to implement it as soon as possible, but the Microsoft docs might be a bit confusing, so I wanted to simplify the manual, so here it is! We will be using PowerShell, as this makes life so much easier, and faster.
