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Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migrations

June 13, 2019
Conrad Murray
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Given the growth of Microsoft Office 365, tenant-to-tenant migrations were inevitable and have become more and more frequent. Tenant-to-tenant migrations have essentially become the new Exchange and AD migrations we all know and love from the last 15 years. If an Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration is on your horizon then you are going to have to rely on good planning, 3rd party tools, manual tools and IT Consulting Services from trusted professionals, and that’s where Nero Blanco comes in.

Protecting Office 365 identities on a shoestring

March 28, 2019
Twan van Beers
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We hear about identity theft and protection all the time in IT. For Office 365 there are number of things you can do to help protect your organisation The flagship approach from Microsoft is Microsoft 365, which is a suite…

VM troubleshooting in Azure

February 7, 2019
Twan van Beers
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Azure is a great service for hosting virtual machines, however sometimes VMs get into trouble and aren't able to boot... Then you find yourself longing for a keyboard and screen connected directly or via Hyper-V or ESX. Alas don't despair…

Creating an Azure VM from a SysPrep image that was Security hardened by GPO

January 30, 2019
Conrad Murray
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Resolved an issue logging in first time to an Azure machine that had been cloned from a hardened base image.

SharePoint visible to unlicensed users

December 31, 2018
Twan van Beers
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As the title says there is a little known 'feature' in SharePoint. Basically SharePoint has no licence associated with it. Any users created in your Azure AD will have access to SharePoint as along as the SharePoint permissions allow it. …

Merging Two Office 365 Mailboxes

October 2, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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

September 27, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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

September 27, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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

July 2, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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

June 26, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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…

Find differences between two GPO templates

June 25, 2018
Twan van Beers
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If you've been dealing with Group Policy Objects (GPO) for any length of time you'll know that when a new version of the ADMX templates are released there are often no release notes as to what has changed. If you're…

Mobile number not syncing via AAD Connect

June 22, 2018
Neil Langston
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Very brief observation from us today. A customer complained that the mobile attribute was not syncing from their local Active Directory to Office 365/Azure Active Directory - even though AAD Connect was reporting the attribute changes.... It turns out, that…

Technical Limitations of Migrating IBM Domino Rooms to Exchange

June 21, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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…

June 19, 2018
Conrad Murray
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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…

Inside Kerberos – 7: Wrap up

May 17, 2018
Twan van Beers
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Alright, we've covered a lot of ground, but let's wrap up by grabbing our original questions and answering the 1. Why is there a problem with SIDHistory and Domain Local Groups, and exactly what is the problem? We've seen that…

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