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Test drive Microsoft Intune – Part 1 Setup Trial Environment

12th of September, 2016 / Emmanuel Mamayson / 1 Comment

Summary

The purpose of this blog article if for someone to get familiar with and learn how to complete a test trial of Microsoft Intune.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Account – To setup Microsoft Intune demo it is recommended to establish a new Microsoft Account even if you already have an existing one. Reason being that the demo is tied to the email address and may limit you from running additional demos or production after you have completed the demo.

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Understanding Outlook Auto-Mapping

23rd of August, 2016 / David Ross / 10 Comments

Auto-mapping is an Exchange & Exchange Online feature, which automatically opens mailboxes with Full Access permissions in a delegate’s Outlook client. The setting is configurable by an Administrator when Full Access permissions are assigned for a user. Once enabled, the periodic Autodiscover requests from the Outlook client will determine which mailboxes should be mapped for a user. Any auto-mapped mailboxes with be opened by the Outlook client in a persistent state and cannot be closed by the user.… [Keep reading] “Understanding Outlook Auto-Mapping”

Enumerating all Users/Groups/Contacts in an Azure tenant using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API ‘odata.nextLink’ paging function

10th of August, 2016 / Darren Robinson / 7 Comments

Recently I posted about using PowerShell and the Azure Active Directory Authentication Library to connect to Azure AD here. Whilst that post detailed performing simple tasks like updating an attribute on a user, in this post I’ll use the same method to connect to Azure AD via PowerShell but cover;

enumerate users, contacts or groups
where the number of objects is greater than the maximum results per page, get all remaining pages of results
limit results based on filters

The premise of my script was one that could just be executed without prompts.… [Keep reading] “Enumerating all Users/Groups/Contacts in an Azure tenant using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API ‘odata.nextLink’ paging function”

Adding/Removing User Office365 Licences using PowerShell and the Azure AD Graph RestAPI

3rd of August, 2016 / Darren Robinson / 3 Comments

In a recent blog post here I posted about the Azure AD v2.0 Preview Powershell cmdlets that are currently in preview. These update the functionality the current MSOL cmdlets provide whilst also supporting features they don’t (such as managing users with MFA).

The Azure AD v2.0 cmdlets interface with the Azure AD Graph API and this week I tried using the Set-AzureADUserLicense cmdlet to add/remove licenses from users in a test tenant. With no sample documentation for syntax I didn’t kick any goals so I figured I’d just go straight to using the Azure AD Graph API to get the job done direct from Powershell instead.… [Keep reading] “Adding/Removing User Office365 Licences using PowerShell and the Azure AD Graph RestAPI”

Debugging an Office 365 ADFS/SSO issue when accessing Office Store in browser

1st of August, 2016 / David Lee / 2 Comments

We recently came across an issue with a customer where they had configured a standard SSO experience with Office 365 using ADFS and it was working perfectly except for a specific use case. When a user accesses the office store via the Office 365 portal (e.g. portal.office.com/store) they got into an endless SSO login loop. Specfically, they would see the following:

Connection to Portal.Office.com
Redirection to login.microsoftonline.com
Redirection to adfs.customerdomain.com (automatically signed in because of WIA SSO)
Redirection to login.microsftonline.com

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Modern Authentication and MAPI-HTTP

27th of July, 2016 / David Lee / No Comments

If you haven’t heard, Modern Authentication (aka ADAL), has now officially gone GA (https://blogs.office.com/2015/11/19/updated-office-365-modern-authentication-public-preview/) – which means that if you are utilising Office 365 services, particularly Exchange Online, and Office 2013/2016 as your client, you should really be looking at enabling this functionality for your end users.

For those unfamiliar with Modern Auth, there are numerous benefits, but one of the most obvious for end users is it removes the need for the use of ‘save my credentials’ when signing into Exchange Online and provides a true SSO experience when combined with ADFS Federation.… [Keep reading] “Modern Authentication and MAPI-HTTP”

The new Azure AD Connect built in user filter: adminDescription.

14th of July, 2016 / Lucian Franghiu / 7 Comments

tl;dr

Really? I need to shorten an already short post? Well, you’re welcome Generation-Y.

New Azure AD Connect user filter
Inbound rule
Leverages ADDS attribute: adminDescription
Add in a value with a prefix of User_ or Group_ to filter out that object

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Azure AD Connect, like previous version of the directory synchronisation application, is able filter users, groups or contacts that are synchronised to Azure AD / Office 365 through a number of methods. The Microsoft Azure documentation page – –

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnectsync-configure-filtering/

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Office365 & Windows 10 Profile Pictures

20th of June, 2016 / Dave Young / 2 Comments

At a customer recently, we were asked if we could provide a non-technical way of controlling profile pictures for both Office 365 and Windows 10. So straight away I thought, time for some PowerShell. I came up with the solution of having a number of shares on a server, which can be permission’d as required…

.\Source – for adding images
.\Replace – if a user wanted to change their picture
.\Remove – if a user opted out of the profile picture setup

As this was a new setup, I requested that they name the images UPN.jpg,… [Keep reading] “Office365 & Windows 10 Profile Pictures”

Powershell Status Reporting on AAD Connect

6th of June, 2016 / Michael Pearn / 1 Comment

Recently, I had a customer request the ability to quickly report on the status of two AAD Connect servers.

Since these two servers operate independently, it is up to the administrator to ensure the servers are healthy and they are operating in the correct configuration modes with respect to each other.

Typically, if you’re going to spend money operating two AAD connect servers, it make sense they both are enabled with their import cycles but only one runs in ‘Normal’ mode (i.e.… [Keep reading] “Powershell Status Reporting on AAD Connect”

Configuring Proxy for Azure AD Connect V1.1.105.0 and above

24th of May, 2016 / Michael Pearn / 8 Comments

My colleague David Ross has written a previous blog about configuring proxy server settings to allow Azure AD Sync (the previous name of Azure AD Connect) to use a proxy server.

Starting with version 1.1.105.0, Azure AD Connect has completely changed the configuration steps required to allow the Azure AD Connect configuration wizard and Sync. Engine to use a proxy.

I ran into a specific proxy failure scenario that I thought I’d share to provide further help.… [Keep reading] “Configuring Proxy for Azure AD Connect V1.1.105.0 and above”