In a recent support case, the migration of mail boxes from an on-premise Domino platform to Exchange Online was started, but the migration got stuck because the on-premises accounts, enabled as Mail Users, did not appear in “Contacts” in the Exchange Online Admin Center. Also, in the on-premises environment Azure AD Connect was present and… Read More »
During a recent Office 365 troubleshooting scenario I needed to install the Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OFFCAT), but noticed that OFFCAT cannot be installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 using the default installation process. In this case OFFCAT throws the following error: The cause of issue is User Account Control that does not grant… Read More »
Based on the Office 2016 update model, that Microsoft released last year, Office 365 is now introducing the option to control how often updates are introduced to the Office 365 Client apps. Note that the ability to change the update channel only applies to 2016 editions of Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Project Pro… Read More »
As the use of Office 2016 has started to gain momentum, a number of organizations have experienced cases where Outlook 2016 take extraordinary long time to setup a new profile with a hosted Exchange 2010/2013 solution, like Exchange Online. The situation is furthermore complicated when the option to manually enter the Exchange server settings is… Read More »
The 2015 December version of Azure AD Connect has just been released. The new release includes a few, but critical fixes, including a fix for an issue with password sync, that several organizations have been struggling with lately. Fixed issues: Password sync might not work when you change passwords in AD DS, but works when… Read More »
The Web Application Proxy (WAP) is a role service of the Remote Access server role in Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the primary roles of the WAP is to performs pre-authenticates access to web applications using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), and in this capacity the WAP functions as an AD FS proxy.… Read More »
Yammer identities and the profile updates have been decoupled from the identity management and synchronization in the other Office 365 services, and setting up synchronization of identities to Yammer has required deploying and configuring the Yammer Directory Synchronization (DSync), a separate tool from the Azure AD Sync/Azure AD Connect used for Office 365. After the… Read More »
The next CoLabora User Group Meeting will be held at 27. November 2015 from 9.00 to 12.00 (GMT+1). Topics this time will be Cloud Identity Management, Exchange Hybrid and Office 365 Compliance and Exchange Archiving. Most activites and sessions will be done in Danish, except one session which this time will be held in english.… Read More »
Microsoft has announced that they are preparing an expansion of the Microsoft Cloud from the existing two datacenters in Ireland and the Netherlands, with an additional regional datacenter in the United Kingdom. Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services is expected to be generally available from the new datacenter in last part of 2016. The Dynamics… Read More »
The Exchange hybrid team have released the latest version of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW). This new version is called the Microsoft Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard, and is the first version that is developed as a standalone, downloadable application, instead of being part of the on-premise Exchange server product. The new HCW provides great… Read More »