Microsoft Begins Email Address Internationalization
Global Economy, Global Addresses Expected within the next few months, Microsoft will take the first steps of enabling Email Address Internationalization (EAI) support in Office 365. EAI is a broad category encapsulating any non-English typography; from diacritical marks to complete scripts, any written language may eventually be usable in Microsoft email addresses and thus Active Directories. Note, however, that the coming […]
January Brings Improved SharePoint to Office 365
Migrate & Administrate Efficiently Using SharePoint gets a lot easier for Microsoft hybrid enterprises this month. Easing the way to the cloud, the SharePoint Migration Tool has been released to general availability, promising to migrate even large-scale SharePoint document libraries with a simple wizard-like tool. On top of that, dramatic improvements have been made to the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool, which hones in on potential migration issues […]
Cross-Platform PowerShell Core 6.0 Released
A More Powerful Shell As of January 10, PowerShell Core 6.0 is now available for general use in production environments. Not only is this version cross-platform, available for Windows, Linux, macOS, and a variety of less common OSes, but is also not even tied to Windows in particular, having been developed on the open source .NET Core platform. A comprehensive analysis by Kurt Mackie goes […]
Building Office 365 Client Access Policies
Tuning Tenant Security and Compliance A major feature of Office 365 lies in how it allows users to access it from practically any device with an internet connection. Compliance with governmental or internal regulations, however, can oftentimes require stricter security policies than what default Office 365 supplies. With attention and a Client Access Policy, you can customize who can access which Office 365 services, from where and from what devices. The why […]
A Better Buggy Beta – PowerShell Module for Teams
Scripting for Success Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting module for Teams updated to version 0.9.1 last December, but as Tony Redmond points out in a recent article, it’s still infested with both bugs and design flaws. That doesn’t stop him, however, from jumping into a variety of useful cmdlets for the module, walking through scripts for PowerShell […]
Microsoft Expands Azure Hybrid Enterprise Capability
Hybrid Enterprise Momentum Not even a year after Google invested millions in hybrid storage vendor Avere Systems, Microsoft swooped in last week to snatch the company for itself. Avere specializes in high-performance computing and storage, often a priority for large enterprises in a hybrid environment. With this purchase, Microsoft will integrate Avere more tightly with […]
Updating UserPrincipalName before Azure AD Connect Syncronization
When Azure AD Connect will first try to match Active Directory accounts to Office 365 accounts, it looks for a Active Directory UserPrincipalName that matches a corresponding Office 365 user name. This is known as a soft-match because it relies on a string comparison. To ensure the users match between AD and Office 365, you will […]
How to remove your last Exchange Server in a Hybrid Deployment
There are challenges to removing the last Exchange Server when you move to Office 365. In order to keep things working properly the synchronization between Active Directory (AD) and Office 365 becomes critical to keeping things running smoothly. Both Azure AD Connect and the predecessor DirSync, solve the problem and both are free. Both solutions however, make changes to […]
Changing the Default Office 365 DirSync Schedule
Changing the Default Office 365 DirSync Schedule – not so fast! The default DirSync/AD Connect synchronization schedule is one time every three hours. Another well known vendors has arbitrarily recommended that the <add key=”SyncTimeInterval” value=”3:0:0″ /> value that controls this schedule be reduced to once ever 10 minutes. This change should not be made unless there is a […]
Office 365 Charge Back Reporting by Department or Group
Office 365 License Billing Report by Department, BU or AD Group Office 365 charge back reporting is a must due to the growing popularity of subscription based services like Office 365. Many organizations turn to charge back reporting to distribute subscription costs across different budgets or departments that share a single tenant. Cayosoft Administrator now offers on-going license assignment, […]
