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…
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…
What is the Difference between Office 365 E3 and E5 License? This post is just to list to differences between Office 365 E3 and E5 licenses. As you will notice below with the E5 license you will receive more advanced features i.e. PowerBi, Advanced Thread Protection for Exchange Online to name a few. E3 License…
Add Office 365 Domain using PowerShell In this post, I will look at how to add a new Office 365 Domain using PowerShell. Before we start with adding the domain we need to make sure that we have the following information available. Tenant ID FQDN of the new Domain you want to add The FQDN…
Website no longer available after moving Domain to Office 365 In today’s post, I will look at how to resolve the issue of your website being unavailable after moving your Domain to Microsoft Office 365. If you want to keep you current Website and move the same domain to Microsoft Office 365, no need to…
How to Add a New Domain to Office 365 Adding a new Domain in Office 365 is a pretty straight forward process, in this post I will do a quick walk through of how to add a new Domain to an existing tenant. To get started you need to be logged in to the Tenant…
Conditional Access for Office 365 Apps In this post, I will go over the steps of how to create a conditional access policy for Office 365 Apps using Azure AD. What is conditional access? conditional access allows the administrator to fine-tune how users can access the cloud resources. These policies can allow you to restrict…
Create Office 365 Groups using PowerShell In this post, I will show case the steps for how to create a Groups in Office 365. Office 365 Groups allows for ease of flexibility and collaboration between staff members. More about Office 365 Groups can be found Here. To get started a PowerShell session to Exchange Online…
What is Office 365 Groups Office 365 Groups allows you to easily collaborate and share resources with a set of people you wish collaborate with. These Resources include a shared outlook Inbox, a document library for file sharing or a shared calendar. With Office 365 Groups you do not have the hassle of assigning permissions…
How to Enable Mailbox Auditing in Office 365 By Default, mailbox auditing is not enabled in Office 365, mailbox auditing can be turned on for log in to mailbox access by owner, delegates, and administrators. After mailbox auditing is enabled some actions performed by administrators and delegates on a mailbox is audited by default. To log…
Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA Enabled. If your organization is using MFA for all staff to provide an extra layer of security you might have found that connecting to Exchange Online using Remote PowerShell fails with an error “Access Denied”. For accounts with MFA enabled they cannot use the same method as…