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I recently had a problem with an Exchange Online tenant. There was an external mail contact which was previously synchronised from Active Directory to Exchange Online. So I had deleted the on-premise active directory mail contact but it still existed in Exchange Online. When I tried to delete the contact it gave the following errror message.   […]

On the Microsoft Technet I found this very interesting Post about Microsoft Teams. I reposted this Article here by me in the Blog. It was written by Cian Allner. If you would like to see the original Article, just follow this Link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37465.microsoft-teams-survival-guide.aspx     This “Survival Guide” aims to gather useful materials related to […]

In August 2017 Microsoft released a new Product in their Portfolio. They call it ‘Microsoft 365’. But what is ‘Microsoft 365’? Microsoft 365 is a complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security, that empowers everyone to be creative and work together, securely.   By discovering the Portfolio I found […]

28/08/2017

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Microsoft 365

PowerShell on Samsung Galaxy and iPhone? PowerShell Web Access is a new Windows Server Feature. It provides a web-based PowerShell Console. After installing, you can access PowerShell from any device, even from your Samsung Galaxy or iPhone. The setup is a three step process: Installing PowerShell Web Access (and its sub-features) Installing the certificate Configuring […]

24/07/2017

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PowerShell

As Web Application Proxy is a standard Windows Server role service, you can use many Windows Server PowerShell tools to control Web Application Proxy: Shows Web Application Proxy Windows services status Get-Service’appproxysvc’,’appproxyctrl’,’adfssrv’|fl-property* Shows the configuration of Web Application Proxy Windows service Get-WmiObject-ClassWin32_Service-PropertyStartMode-Filter”Name=’appproxysvc’” Get Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) results for the Remote Access role Invoke-BpaModel Microsoft/Windows/RemoteAccessServer […]

24/07/2017

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ADFS, PowerShell

You can check in a very easy Way all of your Exchange Virtual Directories by using my Script I share with you in this Post. It shows you in a simple way all current Vdir’s on your local Server or all Servers of your Exchange Organisation. During the Script you will be asked if you […]

To create Mail Address Policies on Exchange I prefer to use PowerShell. If you go this Way, there are some small Showstopper you have to know about it. For example how to Manage Resources and the internal Domain? Then also witch Format to use for the Mail Policies? I made a short Script to create […]

How to create fast and clean a new Exchange DAG? – Use PowerShell! Since the last Versions of Exchange we don’t need to configure a dedicated Network Adapter. More about that you can find here. I wrote a small simple Script to create a DAG with two Exchange server. To download the Script just go […]

If FSMO role holder DC goes under upgradation process or down, we think about FSMO roles as its important and we know the traditional NTDSUTIL way of transferring and seizing FSMO roles which takes few minutes. To transfer all 5 of the FSMO roles. Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity “Target_DC_name” –OperationMasterRole PDCEmulator,RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster,SchemaMaster,DomainNamingMaster transfer all 5 FSMO roles using […]

21/06/2017

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PowerShell

About the way how you can deploy an ADFS Infrastructure I have already described here and more about ADFS you can find in the Microsoft Technet Aricles here or in the Technet Blog here . But what about a SAAS for your Customers if you don’t want, that they know each other? Normaly you use a […]

20/06/2017

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ADFS

Deploying a new Exchange Server infrastructure is never been so Standarted like today with Exchange 2016. In this Post it is not the question HOW to install Exchange, it is about how to Plan it. Microsoft recommends to use Building Blocks. The Perimeter for one Building block are: Number of Mailboxes 3000 Number of max. […]

13/06/2017

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MS Exchange