WARNING: This is a bit of rant. I am frustrated with residential offerings for Internet service. This is an effort to explain how LTE should be a viable and equal cost option to existing DSL service that is out there. I need reliable Internet service, bottom line. I have limited offerings available to me where … Continue reading Offering Home LTE: Time for Telcos to Grow Up
After completing a migration to Exchange Online, it is common to have questions like: 1) What is the best practice for provisioning mailboxes? 2) How do I provision mailboxes? 3) Why should I keep this Exchange server around? Well, these are good questions. Let's start with the last question. When an organization migrates to … Continue reading How to Provision Exchange Online Mailboxes
This post is an introductory post in an upcoming and unfolding series regarding identity management. Whether for Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Azure, or 3rd party apps, having an understanding of identities in Azure AD is a must have feather to have in your cap. These different identities require some decisions early on that are rather … Continue reading Azure Active Directory Identities
One long standing feature of how Microsoft Exchange works has recently changed: where "Sent Items" reside when you "Send As" another recipient. The traditional flow is that if "User A" has privileges to "Send As" "User B", then the message would go in the "Sent Items" folder of "User A". This changed with Exchange Server … Continue reading Potential Litigation Hold Loopholes and How to Avoid Them
Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) is a product with a long history from Microsoft. While its storied timeline begins many years earlier as a product that Microsoft acquired called ZoomIt Via, Microsoft eventually rewrote the product from the ground up and released it as Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003. Since that time, the core component has … Continue reading Learning Microsoft Identity Manager
In a hybrid Exchange scenario, mailboxes should be stamped with aliases that are mapped to the tenant unique namespaces (e.g. *.onmicrosoft.com). If a mailbox does not contain these aliases, it will fail to migrate. These aliases are normally applied via Email Address Policies, but if the AD object is set to block Email Address Policies … Continue reading Identifying Mailboxes without a Cloud Alias
Today, I was contemplating to myself all of the times I have folks attempt to justify to me why they do not want to follow a best practice. I thought about the implications for quite a long time and I side with following them, for the record. This is not a matter of conforming for … Continue reading The Complexity Funnel
Over the past few years, I have had to address cryptographic vulnerabilities on Windows Server by disabling SSL v2, SSL v3, TLS v1, and RC4. Here is a script that I cobbled together (could definitely be improved): Harden-SslTls
Prior to the arrival of the iPhone, I purchased the Samsung Blackjack Windows Mobile phone which integrated well with my work (I do a lot with Exchange Servers). Time went on and I never really bought into the hype and life was good. A couple of years ago, I was working with a customer doing … Continue reading My Winding Journey with iOS
With the news that PowerShell has been open sourced and brought to Linux and Mac OSX, we are witnessing the fruits of Microsoft's journey to embrace other platforms in an effort to reach and support customers' needs. It is pretty exciting as my personal journey with technology began on the other side, using Linux and … Continue reading Considerations for an Open Sourced PowerShell
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