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Month: Mar 2019

Microsoft Teams can’t chat with external Domains

Microsoft Teams can’t chat with external Domains When users in your organisation try to chat with users outside of your organisation, they receive the following message in Microsoft Teams. “We can’t set up the conversation because your organisations are not set up to talk to each other” To allow your users to communicate / chat with…

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How to verify if Mailbox Auditing is enabled by Default on your Office 365 Tenant

How to verify if Mailbox Auditing is enabled by Default on your Office 365 Tenant Started from January 2019, Microsoft turned on mailbox auditing by default for all Microsoft 365 organizations. This means that the certain actions like the following will be logged and can be viewed in the mailbox audit log. Mailbox owner Delegates…

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Configure Azure AD Connect Pass Through Authentication

Configure Azure AD Connect Pass Through Authentication Azure pass-through authentication allows user to login to cloud and on-premise applications by using the same passwords. Pass-through authentication validated the password against the on-premise active directory. Prerequisite needed: Global Admin account Azure AD Connect 1.1.750.0 or later Windows Server 2012 R2 or later with TLS 1.2 enabled…

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Change the default location for Exchange 2016 Queue Database

Change the default location for Exchange 2016 Queue Database The default location for the Exchange Queue Database is in the Exchange install directory under TransportRoles. The location of the queue database and the queue database transaction logs is controlled by keys in the %ExchangeInstallPath%Bin\EdgeTransport.exe.config XML application configuration file. This file is associated with the Exchange Transport service.…

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Adding Office 365 Admin Role Group Members using PowerShell

Adding Office 365 Admin Role Group Members using PowerShell To learn more about the different roles click here: Office 365 admin roles. To start adding members to an admin role, a connection to Office 365 needs to be established first. The following script can be used from technet or you can following the below steps.…

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Creating a New Microsoft Teams Meeting Policy

Creating a New Microsoft Teams Meeting Policy To create a new Microsoft Teams Meeting Policy can be done using the Teams Admin console and Windows PowerShell. The new Teams Policy should cater for the following. Applies to users in Low Bandwidth regions Limit the features in Teams which requires more bandwidth To get started navigate…

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Creating Office 365 Safe Links Policy and Rule using PowerShell

Creating Office 365 Safe Links Policy and Rule using PowerShell To create a new Safe Links policy and rule a connection to Exchange Online Protection needs to be created. Establish a connection to Exchange Online Protection by doing the following.

Once the session has been created run the following to import the new…

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Create Office 365 Safe Attachments Policy and Safe attachment Rule using PowerShell

Create Office 365 Safe Attachments Policy and Safe attachment Rule using PowerShell To get started with creating the Safe attachment policy and safe attachment rule a connection to Exchange Online Protection needs to be established. To establish a connection to Exchange Online Protection (EOP), follow the below.

Then import the new session

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