Bye bye Azure AD Connect V1

As mentioned at an earlier blogpost time has come for leaving version 1 of Azure AD Connect. A orange warning symbol in the new Microsoft Entra portal is displayed already some time. If you follow this link there is a really clear notification: These guys that are still using Azure AD Connect V1 and rely …

Cleanup Active Directory groups with PowerShell

Taking care for local Active Directory (if it is still present) is one of the most important tasks, so you may need also cleanup disabled users from groups. Sometimes you don’t want to delete users but only removing them from AD groups is required (often for licensing issues etc.) I’ve had that case and wrote …

Exchange SU August 2023 SU9V2 (KB5030524)

After the first try of August 2023 Security Update for Exchange was not that successful, especially for non-english operating systems, there is now a new August Update V2 available.  Exchange SU August 2023 SU9V2 See the latest Exchange Team Blog. New download link for V2 Update NOTE: after installing SU9V2 there are some to dos …

Supported Office versions for M365 environments

M365 services also have a lifecycle for supported client software, there you can find some exciting entries. Originally Microsoft announced a roadmap where M365 supports all products under maintenance (mainstream support). Office 2016 is one exception from this rule. It is not under mainstream support but still supported. See this. October 2023 is not that …

Exchange Online send mails with E-Mail alias

Long time, there was no way to change the send mail address from primary to alias mail addresses. So sending address was forced by administration. Even if users have multiple smtp-addresses there was no official way to accomplish this. January 2022 changed this statement, now it is possible to use the secondary mail address. More …