DataString.InvalidSmtpDomainName(Domain) when running the Office 365 hybrid Configuration Wizard. In this post, I will show case how you can remove the following error when you tried to install the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard. This error typically indicates that you have an Exchange server in your environment that is Offline or has not been decommissioned…
How to create a migration endpoint Exchange Online In post we, will go through the steps to create a new migration endpoint for Exchange Online. To get started, connect to Office 365 Admin Portal then navigate to Exchange Online Admin Portal. From the Exchange admin centre, click on “Recipients”. From the “Recipients” menu select “migration”…
Connect to Exchange servers using remote PowerShell If you do not have local access to your Exchange server, you can use Exchange remote PowerShell to connect to your Exchange Servers. To get started open PowerShell on your local computer. Type the following $UserCredential = Get-Credential The create the new PSSession (Change the FQDN to that…
Create Office 365 Dynamic Distribution Group In this short post we will look at how to create Dynamic Distribution Groups in Office 365 using Azure AD, Exchange Online PowerShell. To get started we will look at how to create a Dynamic Distribution group using Azure AD. Navigate to Azure Active Directory > Mange >> Groups…
MRS Proxy Connection Failed – Exchange Online After installing new Exchange Servers and you try and start a new migration batch to Exchange Online you receive the following Error. “MRS Proxy Error ‘The connection to the server could not be completed” To resolve the issue, let’s look at if MRS Proxy is enabled on the…
How to create a new MobileDeviceMailboxPolicy in Exchange 2016. (also known as ActiveSync Policy) In this post I will create a new Mobile Device Mailbox policy and assign to the sales users, these users are on the road daily and they are in locations where mobile reception is not always the best and the…
Let users rest their Passwords in Office 365 Office 365 and Azure AD allows users to reset their own passwords, this reduces the calls to helpdesk for password resets. Once you enable this setting users will be able to navigate to https://passwordreset.microsoftonline.com/ and reset their own passwords. To get started Launch the Office 365 Admin…
Disable anonymous calendar sharing in Office 365 Admin Center and PowerShell During this post, we will run down on how to disable anonymous calendar sharing in Office 365. By default, anonymous calendar sharing is enabled, as an Office 365 admin can you decide what kind of information your user share externally. With Anonymous calendar sharing…
Configure Outbound Spam Notification Office 365 Exchange Online Outbound spam filtering is always enabled by default when customers use the service to send outbound email. If an outbound email is determined to be spam, the service routes the message through a high risk delivery pool, this reduces the probability of the normal outbound-IP pool of…
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…
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…
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….