Exchange Online Enforcement Pause

by A.K.common, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office 365, PowershellPosted on 2 Comments

Lot of people already know the new Microsoft strategy for blocking outdated Exchange OnPrem Versions in hybrid environments. See this old article which describes the most important informations, see also the timeline for throttling and blocking. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/update-on-transport-enforcement-system-in-exchange-online/ba-p/3827774 After some time the Exchange Teams announced an new article about pausing this enforcement with throttling and blocking. …

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Cleanup M365 Azure AD groups via PowerShell

by A.K.azure ad powershell, common, PowershellPosted on No Comments

Clearing old or orphaned groups is also important in cloud environments, especially in larger structures. So an easy way is to check if there are disabled users in Azure AD groups. Of course there can be also some license savings in M365 if disabled users are removed. This use case I wrote a small PowerShell …

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Cleanup Active Directory groups with PowerShell

by A.K.common, Microsoft active directory, PowershellPosted on 4 Comments

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 …

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Exchange Online send mails with E-Mail alias

by A.K.common, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office 365, PowershellPosted on No Comments

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 …

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PowerShell and AD groups best combination

by A.K.common, Microsoft Active Directory, PowershellPosted on No Comments

In daily life there are a lot situation where you have to copy members of AD groups, or checking if someone is member of an AD group. Therefore I created this blogpost to provide a small assistance doing this tasks via powershell. Function to check user Group Membership Here is a short function checking if …

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