Block Office 365 Sign-In based on On-premise Active Directory Security Group. The purpose of this guide is the assist support staff to block access to multiple accounts that has been compromised. To get started, login to Azure Active Directory Portal. https://portal.azure.com 1 From the Main menu, click on Azure Active Directory on the left-hand side….
Enable MFA without assigning Global Admin Privileges to support staff The purpose of this post is to provide an alternative method of enabling MFA on user accounts without assigning Global Admin Permissions to all support staff. Please take note that this solution is based on Azure AD Conditional Access. This option can be used to…
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…
Enable Mailbox Archiving Exchange Online The focus of this post is to look at two ways on how Mailbox Arching can be enabled in Exchange Online. What is Archiving? Archiving in Exchange Online (called In-Place Archiving) provides users with additional mailbox storage space. Archive mailboxes also provide an alternate storage location in which to store historical…
Assign Import Export Permission in Office 365 To assign the new permission, do the following. Launch the Exchange Online Admin Console Click Permissions Admin Role and select “Organization Management” Click the “pen” to edit the role From within the Organization Management Role, click on + under roles. Click on the Mailbox Import Request, Then click…
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…
Install the Azure AD Connect Tool To allow on-premises AD users to login to cloud services like Office 365, we need to configure the Azure AD Connect Tool. For the purpose of this post, the ADSync Tool will be installed on the ADFS server that I have running in my environment. To start the process…
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…
How to create Office 365 Users using PowerShell In this post, I will look at how we can create new Office 365 Users using PowerShell and look at how we can create bulk Office 365 users using a PowerShell script. To get started we need to connect to Office 365 using PowerShell. This can be…