Robocopy Example to Sync Altered Files/Folders
The following command will copy all contents from drive D: to drive E: If the process is interrupted, the same command makes sure to pick up where the earlier process left off, meaning already copied files won't be transferred again. /COPYALL: copies all files, folders
/E: includes empty folders as ... Read More
/E: includes empty folders as ... Read More
In this lab we take a look at the special ImmutableID property of the Microsoft Online user accounts. This property is used when we synchronize on-prem AD accounts to the cloud. The ImmutableID shows the hybrid system which on-prem account ... Read More
Password hashes are synchronized separately from the user account to the Azure Active Directory by AADSync. If there are issues with hash sync for certain users or even whole domains, there is a great built-in tool to diagnose the issues ... Read More
An interesting test is how to migrate user mailboxes between two on-prem Exchange systems that have no connection whatsoever, other than a plain network connection through the internet. They belong to different forests, and there are no trust relationships set ... Read More
During onboarding or offboarding Office365 migration batches are created with collections of users to first sync the given users' mailboxes to or from the cloud, and keep it synced until they are completed. When whole batches are completed, all mailboxes ... Read More
Installing an NFS file server on linux mainly consists of three short steps: install the NFS package, then configure (or in another words export) the NFS shares and lastly set the built-in firewall to allow incoming NFS queries ... Read More
Is Office365 still asking for 2FA for your global admin, even though MFA is disabled for all of your users?
This is because 'Security defaults' are enabled in your tenant. To disable it open the Azure portal: https://aad.portal.azure.com Under 'Azure Active ... Read More
This is because 'Security defaults' are enabled in your tenant. To disable it open the Azure portal: https://aad.portal.azure.com Under 'Azure Active ... Read More
ADFS Smart Lockout handles authentication requests, blocking users when getting suspicious activities from certain IP addresses, while allowing valid users continue to use their accounts. Doing this without locking the actual AD user account ... Read More
The Issue PowerShell - Install-PackageProvider: No match found error when installing PowerShell modules | FIX ! In a new deployment of Windows Server 2016 or 2019 when using the Install-Module [xxx] command you might be prevented with the following error ... Read More
There might be scenarios when cutting ADFS and falling back to cloud authentication is urgently required. For example, when our on-premises ADFS authenticator servers go down - possibly due to a network outage - we want our users to be ... Read More
Pass-through Authentication is somewhat in between the other two options when it comes to configurability. While it is so much simpler to configure than ADFS (same steps are followed when setting up PHA), however the same seamless SSO is provided ... Read More
To convert users from on-prem synced to fully cloud managed type, we have two options. One is to cut DirSync altogether, which will put users to a soft-deleted state from which we restore them. The other way is to only ... Read More
If you want a user to be fully customizable, editable in the cloud you can convert it to cloud managed type. Note that if you do that, naturally no local AD changes will be synchronized to the cloud version of ... Read More
Migrating users from on-prem to Office365 (onboarding) and from the cloud to on-premises (offboarding) is easier done by using the Shell. The migration batches are created from a csv file. After the batch is ready, we start the batch, which ... Read More
In this article we follow the main direction of our earlier guide where we detailed a proper Exchange 2019 to Office 365 migration, but without PTA or ADFS (so without proper single sign-on) configured. This time we go through the ... Read More
Azure AD Connect synchronizes changes to user accounts every 30 minutes by default. This frequency applies only to item attributes, not user passwords. Password hashes are suppoed to be synchronized instantly. In certain cases, you might want to force a ... Read More
In this article we are migrating our alwayshotcafe.com email system to the Office365 cloud. For details on how the on-prem environment was built, please visit the corresponding article here: How to Install a new Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server – Step ... Read More