Post Overview

  • Issue with meeting invites during Office 365 staged migration

    During a recent migration project, we migrated several mailboxes to Office 365 using the staged migration approach. Naturally, during the migration, users that had been migrated still sent meeting invites to on-premises users and meeting rooms. The problem was that meeting invites were actually received as clear text and stripped of the necessary attributes that Read more

  • A quick look at Windows Azure IaaS

    I played around a bit with Windows Azure IaaS to see how it stacks up against Amazon EC2. We use Amazon EC2 internally for some test and demo setups that don’t always have to be running. As a practical test, I wanted to install a Windows Server 2012 domain controller in a subnet of my Read more

  • Enabling and disabling DirSync in BPOS and Office 365

    If you have some experience with BPOS or the Office 365 Beta, you know there’s a tool called DirSync that allows you to synchronize your Active Directory with Microsoft’s Online Services. During a course last week, I was asked if you can use DirSync temporarily to sync users, contacts and groups and, after migration, turn Read more

  • Office 365 and Identity

    Microsoft has provided more details about Office 365 and the different identity options in a service description document (link at the bottom of this post). There are two types of identities: Cloud Identity: credentials are separate from your corporate credentials Federated Identity: users can sign in with their corporate Active Directory credentials With BPOS, there Read more

  • Office 365 SharePoint Online Storage

    Microsoft has recently published updated Office 365 Service Descriptions at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c6ecc6c-64f5-490a-bca3-8835c9a4a2ea. The SharePoint Online service description contains some interesting information, some of which I did not know yet. We typically receive a lot of questions about SharePoint online and storage. The list below summarizes the storage related features: The storage pool starts at 10GB with Read more

  • How to check that a RemoteFX session was created

    When working with RemoteFX, it is not directly obvious in the UI that a RemoteFX session was established. The easiest way to check it is via the Event Viewer on the RDS host. Look for the following event: You will find the above in the Applications and Services logs. Read more