Azure AD Connect V1 retiring – Upgrade NOW!

In september 2021 another big announcement was published by Microsoft. Azure AD Connect Version 1x is retired and will not work anymore in August 2022. So please update your Azure AD Connect Version! On August 31 2022 all old versions of Azure AD Connect Ver. 1.x won’t work. Resulting this announcement there are some consequences. …

Exchange Online: see mailboxsize and added mobile devices with PowerShell

Lot of customers ask me if it is possible to get a statistic of mailbox size in Exchange Online. I say, of course it’s possible with PowerShell. Some time ago I created a short script to get sizes as output to shell. Not that usable. The last days I spent some time to create a …

Exchange Online PowerShell V2 Copy “Sent As” Message to the original mailbox

I decided to write this article about ” Sent as” permission because lots of myths and false assumptions are connected with this topic. Many organizations use this feature to reply and veil their personal mail address. This is quite the right way. Now the issue ( many people don’t know there is a issue 😉 …

Microsoft Teams distribute company background via GPO (company branding)

Some time ago you were able to define backgrounds or bluring in Microsoft Teams. If you choose a background there are some predefined from microsoft. The download URL for backgrounds: https://statics.teams.microsoft.com/evergreen-assets/backgroundimages/ Custombackgrounds are stored inside the user %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads If you have a company and want to give your users the chance to use corporate backgrounds. …

Office 365 Business name changes the Second (to Microsoft 365)

Microsoft product group decided to change the names of smaller business products in the office 365 universe. This change takes affect on April 21, 2020 (automatically). First of all here are the new names (offical blogpost): Office 365 Business Essentials -> Microsoft 365 Business BasicOffice 365 Business Premium -> Microsoft 365 Business StandardOffice 365 Business …