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Force Azure AD Connect to connect to specific Domain Controllers only
Consider the following scenario: you are about to implement directory synchronization for Office 365. You have multiple Active Directory sites across several, geographically dispersed, locations all over the world. Unsurprisingly, some of these locations have better...
Looking forward to 2016…
...also means looking back at 2015. 🙂 First of all, let me start by wishing all of you a happy (belated) New Year. I hope that 2016 is off to a good start! As you might have noticed, it's been a little quiet around here these past few months. There's a few good...
Paul Robichaux joins ENow as CTO!
Hi all, Today is a great day! I know it's been a while since I last posted here, but that's just because I've been super busy with lots of things. Besides speaking at IT/Dev Connections and writing the Office 365 for IT Professionals ebook with Tony Redmond and Paul...
Exchange User Permission Enumeration Script
A few years ago, I wrote a PowerShell script which would enumerate the permissions a user had been given in an Exchange environment. Because of some connectivity issues over on pro-exchange.be, earlier, I decided to post the script to the TechNet gallery and do a...
Speaking at IT/DEV Connections & UK UC Day
It's been a while since I last wrote an article... Although there's no excuses, I have been pretty busy lately... First of all, I've been 'heads down' preparing version 2 of the "Office 365 for Exchange Professionals" ebook. As Microsoft recently announced, there have...
[updated: July 20, 2015] Script: putting Exchange Server 2013 into Maintenance Mode
Latest Update: v1.8 (07/20/2015): fixed a copy/paste error in the script and cleaned up the code to be a little more efficient (removed redundant IF-statement. Published the script to the TechNet Script Gallery for easier download access. Introduction In Exchange 2010...
Azure AD Connect is now GA
Yesterday, Microsoft announced they released Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Health to the public. Azure AD Connect can be seen as the successor to DirSync/AADSync, with an added edge. It does not only allow you to configure directory synchronization, but the...
Selective authentication for (sub-)domains in Office 365
Office 365 provides various authentication options, such as cloud-IDs, Password Hash Synchronization or federated identities. Leaving out the specifics on how each of these options work, all of them are configured per domain. Whenever trying to access services in Office 365, the user is required to authenticate using its User Principal Name. For sake of simplicity, the general advise it to configure the UPN to match the email address which makes it less confusing for them.
Latest security bulletin addresses vulnerability in AD FS
The April 2015 Security Bulletin, Microsoft released an update for Active Directory Federation Service 3.0 which comes with Windows Server 2012 R2. According to the documentation, the vulnerability would allow an attacker to gain access to an application - such as...