Azure AD Connect: Correct Or Remove Duplicate Values
KB ID 0001588 Problem I was doing some work for a School recently, their staff were already using Office 365 and their tenancy was all setup. Now they wanted to roll Office 365 out to the pupils, and sync to their on premises Active Directory. Now we could have simply excluded the staff from the Azure AD Connect Sync, but they want to manage their passwords etc. on-premises. Microsoft will tell you if you DON’T have an...
Exchange: Apply Email Address Policy to All Distribution Groups
KB ID 0001361 Problem While doing a migration I needed to update all of a clients ‘Distribution’ groups with an additional mail domain. This is not normally a problem we can do that with an Email address policy, well yes you can if all the groups have ‘update email addresses based on policy’ ticked, (which is the default!) However this client had done everything manually. So that wasn’t an option....
Changing Domain Users’ ‘User Logon Names’ and UPN’s
KB ID 0001238 Problem Changing a users UPN suffix is easy (as long as it’s been added – see below). There is some confusion about the User Login Name though. A few weeks ago I had a client that needed this done, (for an office 365 migration). But they had the added problem that some of their User Logon Names had spaces in them, they were in first-name{space}last-name format. What would happen if I changed their user...
Changing a Username and Email Address
(Windows & Exchange) KB ID 0000698 Problem This was asked on Experts Exchange this morning, and so I thought I’d get it documented. There are loads of reasons why you might want to change a username, display name, and email address. It can be spelt wrong, a user has got married/divorced and changed their surname, or they have simply changed their name. There are also some clients who don’t create a new user when a...