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Software Technical

Office365: Using PowerShell to get Office365 license info

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 […]

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Tech Short: Use Windows Management Instrumentation Command to List Windows Updates

To list the updates that have been installed on a Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 Server simply issue the following command in a command prompt window wmic qfe get hotfixid That’s it

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Personal Technical

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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How-To Technical

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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How-To Technical

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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How-To Technical

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 […]