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 …

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 …

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 😉 …