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Office 365: Cutover Migration | Lost Delegation on Mailboxes

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 […]

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Revive Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 after drained battery

The first time I encountered this issue I called Samsung and sent off my tablets to get fixed. This is while I was still under their service contract. They had fixed one and because of a small scratch on the screen of another they declined to fix unless I paid $60.00. I said no and had […]

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Office 365: Convert Mailbox to Shared Mailbox after Cutover Migration

When performing a cut-over migration the Exchange attribute indicating that the mailbox was a shared mailbox is lost. To correct this I have done the following steps: List out all of the shared mailboxes form my on-premises Exchange and export them into a CSV file. Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -RecipientTypeDetails SharedMailbox | Select UserPrincipalName | Export-Csv […]

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Tech Short: Office365 – Convert select on-premises mailboxes to mail-enabled users

When you convert on-premises mailboxes to mail-enabled users (MEUs), the proxy addresses and other information from the Office 365 mailboxes are copied to the MEUs, which reside in Active Directory in your on-premises organization. These MEU properties enable the Directory Synchronization tool, to match each MEU with its corresponding cloud mailbox. Using the steps provided […]

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI – Power Off & On Guests

Looking for a method to restart a non-persistent environment in ESXi or vCenter, I was able to use PowerCLI to issue the commands needed. Originally I was looking to automate the recovery of a snapshot when it dawned on me that a non-persistent disk would facilitate the same thing.  However I would need to power off the server […]

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Exchange 2013 – Delete all contents from mailbox

Using the following Exchange Management Shell command you can cleanup emails from a mailbox such as one used to catch spam emails: Search-Mailbox -Identity “<mailbox_name>” -DeleteContent -Force You can also check the number of items in the mailbox by issues the following command: ​Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <mailbox_name> | Select Identity, ItemsInFolder