Microsoft 365 and other technical resources
If you’ve got a Microsoft 365 tenant created after late March 2023 (or you’re otherwise reading this in June 2023), you may find that you are faced with the below error when running the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW): This is because Microsoft has began disabling Remote PowerShell in Exchange Online, starting with new tenants. In … Read more
If you’re migrating your Azure AD Password Protection Proxy agent to a new host, you will have found that no documentation exists to guide you through decommissioning the legacy agent without removing AAD Password Protection entirely. To remove a single (or multiple) agents without decommissioning the entire service, see below: Uninstall the proxy agent software … Read more
A customer recently came to me with an issue leaving them unable to add permissions for a migrated user to an on-prem calendar. Upon attempting to do this, they received the below error: A very confusing issue as the mailbox Exchange is looking for most certainly does exist. A quick check using the below command … Read more
Updated 25/05/23 to include .reg file Today I was faced with a new issue while running through the Hybrid Configuration Wizard on a new Exchange 2016 machine running Windows Server 2016. This error can also be seen in the HCW log file which can be found in %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Exchange Hybrid Configuration on the machine running HCW. … Read more
If you’re planning on making the switch from federated to cloud authentication, you have probably heard of Staged Rollout; a new feature from Microsoft that allows you to pilot the migrated experience without migrating your entire domain. While the feature works as advertised, Microsoft’s setup instruction are missing a key step to get Seamless Single … Read more
In preparation for migrating legacy Public Folders to Exchange 2016, I needed to remove a large number of SMTP proxy addresses that that used the “@local” domain, created by an old email address policy. Many scripts exist for this purpose, should you only need to update mailboxes, however I was unable to find anything that … Read more