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Skype for Business Online PSTN Conferencing and Office 365 Business...
At the time of writing, it is not possible to add a PSTN Conferencing licence to Office 365 Business subscriptions – or at least that is what the portal shows: Here you can see that PSTN Conferencing...
View ArticleBulk Enabling PSTN Conferencing
Once you have trialled and configured PSTN Conferencing with a few users you may roll it out much wider. This blog post contains the steps to do that using PowerShell so you can licence and enable your...
View ArticleADFS Service Login Failures and a Simple Fix
If you find on restarting your ADFS server that you get the following event IDs in System event log, 7038, 7034 and 7000 that read as the following: The adfssrv service was unable to log on as...
View ArticleExchange Online Archive–Counting Archives
If you are using Exchange Online Archive and what to get a count of the number of users with an archive, or a list of the users with an archive, then the following PowerShell scripts will give you this...
View ArticleConfiguring ExpressRoute With NRP Errors
I had a scenario where when I ran Get-AzureRmExpressRouteServiceProvider in a new Azure tenant I would get the following error in PowerShell. Get-AzureRmExpressRouteServiceProvider : Subscription...
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ADFS Adapter Issues With Upgrading MFA 6.3.1 to Version 7
Upgrading the ADFS Adapter is not straight forward, though the readme notes for the upgrade make no mention of issues! To upgrade MFA Server 6.3.1 to 7 (so you can remove .NET 2 as a requirement, as...
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Installing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication and ADFS
I have a requirement to ensure that Office 365 users external to the network of one of my clients need a second factor of authentication when accessing Office 365 resources from outside the corporate...
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Upgrading Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server
A new version of Azure MFA Server was released at the end of March 2016, version 7.0.0.9. This provides an in place upgrade to the previous version 6.3.1.1. This version is based on .NET 4.5 and not...
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Renewing Apple APN for Office 365 Mobile Device Management
Office 365 MDM (Mobile Device Management) allows you to manage iOS based Apple devices. Once you have had Office 365 Mobile Device Management is use for a year, the Apple APN certificate that you would...
View ArticleGet-SpoofMailReport in EOP
Using Office 365 or EOP to protect your email and worried about spoofed emails? Then try this cmdlet in Remote PowerShell for EOP: PS C:\Users\brian.reid> Get-SpoofMailReport Date...
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Remote Desktop And Login With AzureAD Account
If you join a Windows 10 PC to Azure AD and then try and login to that PC over remote desktop you are in for a barrel of laughs! Or not! The way to get it to work is as follows: Ensure that Windows 10...
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Creating a Phone System In Office 365 in Ten Minutes
I have been invited into the Skype for Business Cloud PSTN preview in the UK and so I though I would jot down a few comments on how easy it was to configure and get a working telephone line and full...
View ArticleSkype for Business Meetings Don’t Come With a Telephone Number
Yes, that is correct if you are using Skype for Business Online. When you create a meeting request in Outlook you just get the “Join Skype Meeting” message. This is because dial-in meetings are an add...
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OU Filtering in AADConnect–What They Grey Boxes Mean
So I had the chance to check this today. If you do OU filtering in the DirSync tools you will get an OU structure with various grey boxes in it. Here is an example: It appears that both and are options...
View ArticleAzure MFA 503 Error When Authenticating
If you have installed version 7 of Azure MFA Server on-premises (7.0.0.9 or 7.0.2.1 at the time of writing) and have enabled IIS authentication with Forms Based authentication and the Native App, but...
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Photos, Exchange, And The File System
On an Exchange 2013 and later server this is a folder called photos that gets created after installation and can contain a couple of user photos for some of your users. How does it get there and what...
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Capax Zantas EAS EWS 501 Errors
Whilst load balancing Exchange 2013 with a Capax Zantas EAS deployment in place I was reminded of an issue I experienced a few years ago with a Kemp load balancer. The EAS app for OWA was failing with...
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Installing and Updating Microsoft AntiMalware in Azure
The Microsoft AntiMalware agent is a virtual machine extension in Azure that adds support for build in antimalware management within your virtual machines hosted in Azure. The agent can be added easily...
View ArticleAADConnect Password Reset Date Sync Issues
Got this error the other day at a client and found nothing listed on Internet search for it, which of course means only I have this issue! But even so, lets get to see what it means and how to fix it....
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Azure Information Protection General Troubleshooting
Azure Information Protection (AIP) is the new name, and new features for Azure Rights Management. Azure Information Protection allows a company to create a series of labels to apply to documents and to...
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