Author: Frank

NOTE – This post applies to Exchange Distribution Groups and Mail-Enabled Security Groups To add an additional owner to a group that you own After logging in to the Outlook Web App (OWA), select Settings > Options > groups > distribution groups I own Double click on the group to manage and click ownership In […]
Scenario:  Integrate Exchange 2013 OWA and LYNC together. The steps are from the Exchange perspective Steps: 1. Configure Partner Applications with Exchange and Lync: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\Configure-EnterprisePartnerApplication.ps1 -AuthMetaDataUrl ‘https://atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com/metadata/json/1’ -ApplicationType Lync” 2.  Configure OWA Virtual Directories to enable Instant Messaging and to assign OCS as the Instant Messaging Type. Note: InstantMesaging should be enabled but […]
Scenario:  When attempting to add your first server to a new DAG, you may receive the following error: A server-side database availability group administrative operation failed. Error The operation failed. CreateCluster errors may result from incorrectly configured static addresses. Error: The computer account ‘DAG1’ could not be validated. Access was denied. Check that the current […]
Introduction In a previous post you reviewed what Windows Information Protection (WIP) is and how you can configure Intune to use it, you then deployed a WIP policy to a group of users and verified the end result on a Azure AD joined (with Auto-MDM enrollment) Windows 10 version 1703 device. If you are still […]
In SfB on premises you have the ability to set “EnablePresencePhotoOptions” to true under New-CsClientPolicyEntry. This then allows you enable users with the ability to specify a URL for a profile picture in the SfB client. In SfB online, you’re unable to run New-CsClientPolicyEntry, and/or can’t enable EnablePresencePhotoOptions. A a result you cannot specify a […]
Microsoft Teams Msi Installer Microsoft have finally released an Msi installer for Microsoft Teams for those who would like to deploy this to multiple organisations computers for multiples users using a deployment method like SCCM. The requirements are: .NET framework 4.5 or later Windows 7 or later 3GB of disk space for each user profile […]
With Azure AD you can provision access to SAAS apps for your end users and provide the password in advance so that the end user never actually knows what it is. This can be useful i.e. giving your marketing team access to the corporate twitter account without them ever knowing the password. This means you […]
Below is a simple process showing how to disable AD Connect using PowerShell. You may need to use PowerShell to do this if your AD Connect server is no longer accessible. (You cannot disable the sync from the Azure Active Directory GUI). On a machine which has internet access, open Powershell as an administrator. You […]
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