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…
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…
Install Azure RM Modules on Mac In order to connect to Azure PowerShell on Mac, we need to install the Azure PowerShell Modules. To get started we need to download the modules by running the below cmdlets from PowerShell for Mac. Save-Module -Name AzureRM -Path /Users/shaunhardneck The Modules will start downloading as follows. Now…
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…
Export Exchange Online Transport Rules In this post, I will focus on how to export Exchange Online Transport rules using PowerShell. To get started we first need to establish a connection to Exchange Online or Office 365. Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell $UserCredential = Get-Credential Then $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential…
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…