Microsoft Entra Connect fails after updating Entra-Connect July Update TLS 1.2

by A.K.common, hybrid environments office 365, securityPosted on No Comments

A few weeks ago, I wanted to update the previous Azure AD Connect to Microsoft Entra Connect (as usual). Microsoft released a new version (2.3.30.0) in mid-July. Unfortunately, the installation failed, and even reinstalling and troubleshooting initially went thoroughly wrong. Neither password sync nor user sync wanted to work with this version (operating system Windows …

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Bye bye Azure AD Connect V1

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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 …

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Supported Office versions for M365 environments

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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 …

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Azure AD Connect V1 retiring – Upgrade NOW!

by A.K.common, hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft active directoryPosted on One Comment

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. …

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Exchange Online: see mailboxsize and added mobile devices with PowerShell

by A.K.common, hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft Exchange Server, PowershellPosted on No Comments

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 …

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