Creating an Azure VM from a SysPrep image that was Security hardened by GPO
Resolved an issue logging in first time to an Azure machine that had been cloned from a hardened base image.
Author: Conrad Murray
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Merging Two Office 365 Mailboxes
There are many reasons why you may want to do this but probably the most likely is the "Leaver" scenario. A common way of dealing with leavers is to simply convert their Mailbox to a Shared Mailbox, and then terminate…
New Application Guard Window in the Edge Browser
Every now and then you receive an email with a URL in it that makes you pause and think. Maybe it's from a colleague or a friend, and almost looks legit, but something is telling you it might not be. …
FindTime – by Microsoft
Booking a meeting? Need to find available times? We work with a multitude of different clients from the pre-sales process, thru to implementation and project closure. Very often there are many stakeholders but getting everyone together at a time that…
Using a Virtual Mobile Phone for Shared Multi-Factor Authentication
As an IT support organisation, we pride ourselves on staying up to date as much as possible with current trends and changing technologies, particularly in the Microsoft space. As such we keep a keen eye on technical blogs, whitepapers, LinkedIn…
Offering Remote Help in Windows
One of our clients recently asked to present all their options for Remote Support to their end-users. This organisation, like many others is always keen to keep costs down and has opted not to use a third-party solution, but instead…
Technical Limitations of Migrating IBM Domino Rooms to Exchange
Recently we observed an issue with Domino Rooms that we migrated to Exchange/Office 365. In short, appointments contained within cannot be cancelled or re-scheduled and always remain as zombie reservations (unless manually cleaned up). Coexistence This is addition to coexistence…
Paying it forward…
Paying it forward… Well, not really, just plain old IT email forwarding. We all (Messaging Admins) have used forwarding extensively, but it struck me that there are several ways to achieve the same thing. Most often the forwarding scenario comes…
The Groups Dilemma – post migration
Today a client that we had previously migrated off Lotus Notes asked us about applying Groups to their Shared Mailboxes in Office 365 but ensuring that the Shared Mailbox Owners had the ability modify those Groups to provide access. This…
Uploading Microsoft Office Templates to SharePoint
Introduction We have a current client that deal directly with blind and partially sighted people. They have a customised Word Template where the default normal font must be Arial size 14 with Headings etc additionally edited for their needs as…
Additional Mailboxes in Office 365 – More delegation woes
As at today we have an interesting problem and an open ticket with Microsoft Office 365 that is being escalated to Product Support. The scenario is pretty straightforward. Sharing a Mailbox via Full Access (no automapping) + Send on Behalf of…
Outlook Personal Mailbox Delegation Wizard – The ins and outs
Unexpected Results of User Initiated Outlook Delegation Without getting too much into it, all Exchange Administrators have had to deal with this scenario at some stage or another. In my opinion Microsoft still have not address this very well for…
Redirect your standard folders like My Documents to OneDrive for Business
Have you ever wondered wouldn't it be better if every document I worked on was saved to the Cloud without me having to copy or move it there, wouldn't it be nice if my Default Save As location was OneDrive for…
Enhance Notes and Outlook Coexistence – Policy Suggestions
Introduction Recommendations for new customers moving to Microsoft Outlook from IBM Lotus Notes. Despite the presence of 3rd Party Coexistence solutions such as Binary Tree Coexistence Manager for Notes the rescheduling of repeating meetings is still not able to be…
Migrating Personal Contacts from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook
Introduction This document is a short form version containing the basic steps to help a fairly competent basic user that has some IT skills to complete the task of exporting their Lotus Notes personal contacts and importing them into Microsoft…
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