The ability to self service the creation of distributions groups has been a feature for quite some time in my Exchange experiences. Now that I am in Office 365 / Exchange Online this functionally is no longer available for synced groups. This now forces the enlistment of the support department to facilitate all mortification for […]
Tag: O365
Having a need to rapidly sync passwords to Office 365 using Directly Sync (DirSync) I come across the following method that seems to work with minimal effort. By default the DirSync only kicks off ever 3-5 min’s. To initiate a full password sync you can do the following: Open PowerShell, and then type: Import-Module DirSync […]
Yes! In Office 365 at last and now synchronizations are failing The followin message is shown in the forefront identity manager: stopped-server-down And with the event id of 655 the following message is shown: Failed credential provisioning ping. Error: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ServerDownException: Failed even after 5 retries. Action: ProvisionCredentials, Exception: Unable to communicate with the Windows Azure […]
Well this may be why I’ve had issues all day Current Status: Engineers continue to perform tests on the affected networking capacity in order to develop a plan to remediate impact. User Experience: End users are not directly affected by this issue. Customer Impact: Customer impact appears to be limited at this time. Any users […]
Working to apply bulk apply licenses I stumbled upon some useful commands to list the licenses assigned to my Office 365 Account. The following command will list account Sku ID’s along with the active and consumed units. Best of all list them in a nice grid view Get-MsolAccountSku |Out-GridView We can also pull the subset […]
I am posting this to help any of you who are looking to be proactive in your approach to migrate into Office 365 / Exchange Online Services. After migrating mailboxes info Office 365, you will noticed that under your recipient’s mailbox delegation all previous access levels have been removed. In fact they never came over […]