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SSPT RRAS VPN with Wildcard Certificate–Client Issues

If you set up an SSTP VPN on Windows RRAS server and are using a wildcard certificate, there are client settings to fix before the client can connect. If you run the Windows 10 client through the...

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Enabling the Office 365 Report Message Add In

There is a new add-in from within the Office Store that allows users to easily report phishing and spam email directly back to Microsoft This add-in can be enabled and pushed out to all users from the...

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Enable Report Message Add-In For Office 365

There is a new add-in available for Outlook and OWA in Office 365 that can simplify spam and phishing reporting to Microsoft for content in your mailbox. I recommend rolling this add-in out to everyone...

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Duplicate Exchange Online and Exchange Server Mailboxes

With a hybrid Exchange Online deployment, where you have Exchange Server on-premises and Exchange Online configured in the cloud, and utilising AADConnect to synchronize the directory, you should never...

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Outbound Email Via Exchange Online Protection When Using Hybrid Exchange Online

In a long term hybrid scenario, where you have Exchange Online and Exchange Server configured and mailboxes on both, internet bound email from your on-premises servers can route in two general ways....

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Journal Rule Testing In Exchange Online

I came across two interesting oddities in journaling in Exchange Online in the last few weeks that I noticed where not really mentioned anyway (or anywhere I could find that is). The first involces...

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Office 365 Retention Policies and Hybrid Public Folders

If you create an Office 365 Retention Policy (in the Security and Compliance Center) that applies to all Exchange Online content then you might find that after the retention policy has been deployed (a...

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Exchange Online Migration Batches–How Long Do They Exist For

When you create a migration batch in Exchange Online, the default setting for a migration is to start the batch immediately and complete manually. So how long can you leave this batch before you need...

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420 4.2.0 RESOLVER.ADR.Ambiguous; ambiguous address

This error can turn up in Exchange Server when Exchange Server is trying to resolve the object that it should deliver a message to. Exchange queries Active Directory and expect that if the object...

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New Underlying Search Functionality in Exchange Online

Mentioned during Microsoft Ignite 2017, there is a new search functionality in place within Exchange Online. Not all mailboxes are able to make use of the new functionality, such as hit highlighting...

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Send-On-Behalf Permissions in Exchange Online

This document is up to date as of March 2018 and is therefore unlike many earlier documents on this issue as this feature set is in the process of changing. First, Send-On-Behalf is changing so that it...

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Customizing ADFS To Match Azure AD Centered User Experience

Back in December the User Experience (UX) for Azure AD login changed to a centered (or centred, depending upon where in the world you speak English) login page with pagination. Pagination is where you...

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Azure AD Single Sign-On Basic Auth Popup

When configuring Azure AD SSO as part of Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) or with Password Hash Authentication (PHA) you need now (since March 2018) to only configure a single URL in the Intranet Zone...

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Anonymous Emails Between On-Premises and Exchange Online

When you set up Exchange Hybrid, it should configure your Exchange organizations (both on-premises and cloud) to support the fact that an email from a person in one of the organizations should appear...

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Copy Links and Backlinks Between Users and Shared Mailboxes (automapping)

Automap for shared mailboxes does not work across forests when moving mailboxes. When the user is granted permission to a shared mailbox, the default behaviour of automapping means that the shared...

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Exchange Server Object ID Error With Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers

Saw this error the other day: When you open Exchange Control Panel and view the Mailbox Delegation tab of any user account you get the following: The object <name> has been corrupted, and it’s in...

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CannotEnterFinalizationTransientException On Exchange Move Request

Did not find a lot on the internet on this particular error, so I guess it does not happen very often, but in my case it delayed to move of the mailbox in question by a week or so until I could resolve...

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Azure Information Protection and SSL Inspection

I came across this issue the other day, so thought I would add it to my blog. We were trying to get Azure Information Protection operating in a client, and all we could see when checking the download...

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Improving Password Security In the Cloud and On-Premises

Passwords are well known to be generally insecure the way users create them. They don’t like “complex” passwords such as p9Y8Li!uk%al and so if they are forced to create a “complex” password due to a...

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SSL Inspection and Office 365

Lots of cloud endpoint URL’s break service flow if you enable SSL Inspection on the network devices between your client and the service. My most recent example of this Enterprise State Routing in...

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