Bulk Enable Exchange Online Archiving This below script simply just enables the Online Archiving Mailbox for users in Exchange Online. The script needs to be run from the On-prem Exchange environment. $list = Import-Csv “C:\Scripts\EnableArchive\enablearchive.csv” foreach($entry in $list) { $User = $entry.User Get-RemoteMailbox -id $User |Enable-RemoteMailbox -Archive } Csv Sample. Simply has the users Alias…
Upload PST files to Office 365 “You can use the network upload option and the Office 365 Import service to bulk-import PST files to user mailboxes. Network upload means that you upload the PST files a temporary storage area in the Microsoft cloud. Then the Office 365 Import service copies the PST files from the…
Exchange 2016 Hybrid Configuration A hybrid deployment is a combination of on-premises applications and cloud-based services. For example, Exchange hybrid solutions could include using an Exchange Server on-premises and Exchange Online in Office 365. There are multiple ways to configure mail routing with a hybrid organisation, but for the purpose of this blog post, the focus will be on a non-centralised mail routing. What…
How to Configure ADFS Web Application Proxy for ADFS This post will cover the steps needed to configure the ADFS Web Application proxy. What is an ADFS Web Application Proxy? WAP provides reverse proxy functionality for web applications in the corporate network which allows users on most devices to access internal web applications from external…
Configure ADFS for Office 365 Requirements: External DNS records for example: fs.o365cloudlab.co.za Internal DNS records for example: fs.thatcloud.com Valid SSL Certificate Service Account with Domain Admin rights More about the requirement can be found here at the Microsoft blog. To get started we need to install the ADSF roles and features. Run Windows PowerShell as…
Create and Complete new Exchange Certificate Request. The post will cover a quick guide on how to create a new Exchange Certificate Request as well and Completing the certificate request. To get started, the request file can be created from the Exchange Admin Console by following steps. From the EAC Click on Servers – Certificates…
Error Removing Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database: The mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes. You receive the following error when trying to remove an Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database. You have done the following already. -Move Arbitration mailboxes -Move User Mailboxes -Move Monitoring Mailboxes But yet you still receive the following error. To resolve this, we…
Remove Exchange Mailbox Database This post, will provide details on How to remove an Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database. The Exchange Admin Console (EAC) and PowerShell, will be used to remove the the Mailbox Database in this post.. To Get started we will first look at how we can remove a Mailbox Database using the Exchange…
Installing Windows PowerShell on Mac To get started we need to download the PowerShell Module for OSX from the following website: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/ Now that we have the install file, we can simply click on the .pkg file to start the installation. The installation is very simple and straight forward. Once the setup window appears click…
How to find your Office 365 Tenant Location. The following method can be used to find out where your Office 365 Tenant is hosted. First, we need to connect to Office 365 Exchange Online using the following: $credential = Get-Credential $msexonline = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri “https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/” -Credential $credential -Authentication “Basic” -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $msexonline -DisableNameChecking…
Create mailbox message restrictions Exchange 2016 Message restriction can be useful to control who can send messages to users in your organization. For example, you can configure a mailbox to accept or reject messages from certain users or only to accept messages from your Exchange organization. Message restriction can be configured using EMC or the…
Creating Exchange 2016 Distribution Group Naming Policy. What is Group naming policy? Group naming policy lets you standardize and manage the names of distribution groups which are being created by users in the organization. The policy can prevent users from using specific words as well as help with preventing inappropriate group names. You can require…