Earlier this week I have received a requirement to make use of the SharePoint OOTB Organization Browser that needs to set the default root account to be a specific user…well, there are plenty of blogs on using custom JS in…
Earlier this week I have received a requirement to make use of the SharePoint OOTB Organization Browser that needs to set the default root account to be a specific user…well, there are plenty of blogs on using custom JS in…
With the release SharePoint in 2013 and the ever increasing numbers taking up the SharePoint Online offering, it’s a good time to start looking at some of the challenges when moving to these platforms. SharePoint has traditionally been a presentation…
What’s in a name? SkyDrive Pro might be the worst named of all of the products to come out of Microsoft in a while. I sometimes think about the meetings that must happen in Redmond, Developers on one side of…
Recently I was asked to implement an Office 365 Preview for Enterprises tenant that would demonstrate the new functionality provided by Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management (AADRM). Windows Azure Active Directory is the cloud identity management service that underpins…
Office 365 introduces the concept of a shared mailbox. Shared mailboxes are free, as long as they are under 5GB in size. There is plenty of documentation that describes the process to create a new shared mailbox, but how do…
PowerShell is the most important tool for Office 365 management and I find it helpful to have everything just one click away. The following steps will give you a desktop shortcut to launch an Office 365 PowerShell session with all…
So you’re using Federated Identities with SharePoint Online… You may have noticed that every 1-2 days you have to re-authenticate to SharePoint Online. This is the result of an Office 365 security feature that defines a 10 hour SharePoint cookie…
AD FS 2.0 Update Rollup 1 allows a single ADFS farm to support multiple top level domains for Office 365 federated authentication. Unfortunately, the default claim rules generated with RU1 do not support multiple top levels domains with subdomains. “If…
Yesterday, the Active Directory team announced the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory (AD). Windows Azure AD is Identity Management as a Service. Today, it is the identity provider for Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online, and Windows Intune. The Developer Preview…
The Basics Recently I’ve had to explore the dark art of license assignment using Powershell. It’s not particularly well documented so this might help you… Displaying a list of the current licensing assignment is pretty straightforward. Get-MsolUser can be used…