You know you’re getting old when you come across a Usenet post you wrote almost 20 years ago. I came across this little memento while Googling for a much more recent item. Given the vintage of the post, I must have been referring to Exchange 4.0. Exchange has come a long way since then, although… Read More »
Over the weekend I opened up my laptop to knuckle down to my chapter reviews for the upcoming update to the excellent Inside Office 365 for Exchange Professionals. If you don’t already have a copy I strongly recommend you make the investments. The E-book is detailed, well researched and written by those who really know… Read More »
Like that hipster beard you grew last summer, all good things must eventually come to an end. You will likely be aware that the end of extended support for Windows Server 2003 finishes on July 14th 2015. If you don’t know whether you still have 2003 boxes lurking in the dark recesses of your AD… Read More »
Unfortunately Active Directory doesn’t yet provide dynamic security groups in the way that, for example, Exchange provides dynamic distribution groups. Sometimes it is useful to maintain a group’s membership based on a specific attribute, or set of attributes. Here’s a quick Powershell example that shows how to maintain the membership based on the presence of… Read More »
You now have the ability to provide product feature requests and changes relating to Windows Server that go direct to the Product Group. Not only that, but you can build a base of voter support to drive your suggestions across the line. windowsserver.uservoice.com I really like this concept as it removes the difficulties associated with getting your… Read More »
This article explains how to link your O365 tenant to an existing Microsoft Azure subscription, so that you can manage your O365 users from within Azure. Why would you want to do this? Well, perhaps you just want to centralise your administration functions, but it also gives you other benefits, such as the ability to… Read More »
The smartphone I had before I bought my Nokia Lumia 930 was a Samsung S3. I changed phones after the S3 got run over by a car (a short, but dull, cautionary tale not worth relating here). The client I was working for at the time I still had the S3 had a BYOD option… Read More »
It seems that a couple of weeks ago my standalone Exchange Online Protection (EOP) configuration was changed without me being involved. Basically, it looks like my default Accepted Domain was changed from type “Internal Relay” to “Authoritative” without my knowledge or consent. The first I knew of this was when I noticed my on-premises mail… Read More »
The default location for newly provisioned user and computer objects are (respectively) the Users and Computers containers. Since Windows Server 2003 Active Directory the option has been available to redirect these to OUs that you specificy. Why would you want to do this? Well, the Users and Computers containers are just that – container objects… Read More »
There are well known methods for setting Access Control Entries (ACEs) on Active Directory objects using Powershell. One example is the following: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adpowershell/archive/2009/10/13/add-object-specific-aces-using-active-directory-powershell.aspx The method relies on you knowing the schemaIDGUID of the schema object classes you are working with (e.g. User, Computer, Group). Unless you know your way around AD it’s not… Read More »