At Nero Blanco, we specialise in conducting Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations. With experience migrating close to a million seats, our projects have ranged from small 50 user projects to larger ones with up to 70,000 users. Our clients range from small and medium business through to enterprise level organisations of over 300,000 employees – covering […]
Working with the on-premises AD Recycle Bin
Generally in day to day identity management you would not often need to resort to the Active Directory Recycle Bin, but when you do, typically it is a high priority request and you find yourself having to reacquaint yourself with the commands you need. Accidental deletion scenarios Where we have seen the need to restore […]
Azure AD Connect v2.0 – Why should I care?
Azure AD Connect (AADC) was released many years ago and has seen many versions over those years. Microsoft fairly recently introduced a policy where older versions would be sunset after a period of time. Now with the deprecation of components that the current AADC versions use, it has released the v2.x branch of Azure AD […]
Microsoft Teams Meetings that Require Registration
Sounds like an awesome new feature right? Well it is, kind of. Just isn’t well documented or obvious in the GUI how to use it and set one up! Firstly, you can’t do this from Outlook, you have to use Microsoft Teams. Step 1 – Create Event Go to your Calendar, go to top right […]
Fixing Azure AD Join for Windows 10 Provisioning Package Error 0xCAA2000C
We are working with Declaration Software on their Windows 10 Workstation Migration Agent. The Workstation Migration Agent is capable of migrating Computer Accounts from On-Premises AD to Azure AD, AD to AD, and Azure AD to Azure AD. This includes migrating a Workstation where it has been Azure AD Hybrid Joined and instead making it […]
Inherited Full Access to Mailbox via pass-thru Delegation
A user logged into their Outlook and a saw an additional mailbox for a colleague that they had never been granted access to, and should not have had access to. On top of that, they had Full Access + SendAs.
Windows Information Protection and Folder Redirection – 0x807c0008
We are rolling out Windows Information Protection (WIP) for one of our clients. WIP will be deployed for MAM and MDM devices WIP was not deploying at all for certain devices and there was very little information why except for one Event Log error: MDM ConfigurationManager: Command failure status. Configuration Source ID: (9DB97CDF-71B8-4071-8C59-5CD2C9F96DF4), Enrollment Name: […]
Accessing Shared Mailboxes
Previously I wrote a blog about the ins and outs of connecting a shared mailbox and the benefits of connecting to it in Outlook a specific way. I’ve updated this here with the later versions of Outlook screenshots and a shorter version of just why and how. The original blog is here https://www.neroblanco.co.uk/2015/04/the-shared-mailbox-dilemma/ and to […]
Guest Account conflicts with Exchange Online
Guest Accounts not receiving email notifications In truth, this blog could have been called anything. Probably the Guest Account dilemma, but I have used that kind of title a few times now, none the less – it is a dilemma. This is a blog I have been wanting to write for ages, because it has […]
Whiteboard in Office 365 and Teams
We were asked to investigate an issue for a client today where the Whiteboard app wasn’t available to Teams users in a Teams meeting. Here are the key requirements for enabling Whiteboard: Enable Whiteboard for tenant License the users Enable the Teams Policy Apply the Teams Policy to users Enabled Whitebard for the tenant. Head […]
Microsoft Office 365 Security Health Check
A simple traffic light report, produced by one of our Office 365 Consultants, looking into your configuration to highlight if there are any areas of concern and to give you an increase comfort level that you have a good security posture
Leaving a Team outside your Organization
Ever had that situation where you collaborate with an external organization and that project/collaboration comes to its natural (or unnartural0 conclusion, but then you are left with their organization cluttering up your Teams organizations drop down? Not the end of the world of course, but annoying none the less, and if you like a clean […]