I was working with a client recently who had various Active Directory replication issues. They had a multi-domain forest in Windows Server 2008 R2 functional levels. Now the two fundamental errors were DNS zones duplicated between the domains (including the…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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… 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…