How to Decide Between Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync https://ift.tt/38rqWTy Microsoft recently announced that Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync had reached GA (general availability), adding another option for directory synchronization with Microsoft 365. This article provides a background on directory synchronization and why it is fundamental for your journey to the […]
Adding Office 365 License via PowerShell https://ift.tt/38nYtOf Assigning Office 365 license via powershell is need of the hour if the tenant doesn’t have p1 license and you got to apply them manually. the only easy way is use powershell for bulk license assignment. Also its useful to upgrade or renew different licensing. Connect-AzureAD if you […]
Hafnium and Exchange mitigation and remediation https://ift.tt/3kSKS6L Last week Microsoft discovered a zero-day vulnerability for Exchange (which was initially detected by security companies last January) and an urgent patch was released. Unfortunately this patch is only available for recent versions of Exchange 2019 and Exchange 2016 and the last version of Exchange 2013. If you […]
Office 365 License Management: Assigning Licenses by AD Group https://ift.tt/3uLjhZE Since the dawn of time (if the dawn of time was in 2011), assigning Office 365 licenses has been a pain. It has never been complicated, but it has also never been a pleasant experience. You’ve always had two options to either manually assign licenses […]
Released: March 2021 Exchange Server Security Updates https://ift.tt/2NNaExf Microsoft has released a set of out of band security updates for vulnerabilities for the following versions of Exchange Server: Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2019 Security updates are available for the following specific versions of Exchange: Exchange Server 2010 (RU 31 for Service […]
Security Update Exchange 2010-2019 (Mar2021) https://ift.tt/3kC3sjo Another month, another set of security updates for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, including an out-of-band update for Exchange 2013 CU23 and Exchange 2010 SP3 (Rollup 32) as well. According to the related Exchange team blog, these exploits are seen being used as part of an attack chain. The […]
Active Directory Monitoring: Backup and Recovery Part 2 – Backup and Recovery Options for AD DS https://ift.tt/2ZpjKm0 [Applies to Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Active Directory, Active Directory Monitoring] In part 2 of this series we will be discussing backup and recovery options for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) […]
Finding Active Directory Duplicates Preventing Azure AD Synchronization https://ift.tt/3ubi4e3 As you’ve possibly seen in a previous post from a few years back, I wrote a tool specifically to identify a gap in our IDFix tool (namely, the inability to identify which objects were duplicates across one or more forests). I stumbled across the need for […]
Top 10 Tips for Migrating to Exchange 2016 https://ift.tt/3adOj3Z Many companies have good reasons to keep their messaging infrastructure on-premises. Exchange 2016 is currently the second latest version of Exchange Server for on-premises deployments. Common reasons to upgrade Exchange include adding new functionality, such as high availability, moving from an unreliable or insecure system, and […]
Active Directory Monitoring: Backup and Recovery Part 1 – Tombstone Object Reanimation https://ift.tt/2LKE8un [Applies to Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Active Directory, Active Directory Monitoring] This is a 5-part series discussing how to backup and restore objects for Active Directory modules in Windows Server which is a critical component of […]
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