Office365 Tutorials
21. Adding and deleting new users in Active Directory when DirSync is running - Office 365
By: Emiley J : 2012-04-18
Description: When you add new users to Active Directory, you automatically create identical users in Office 365. You can then activate and assign licenses to users so they can access Office 365. If the license includes Exchange Online, a mailbox is automatically created. You can activate users with directory synchronization either automatically using Windows PowerShell or manually in the Office 365 administration web application.
22. Change Dirsync synchronization frequency
By: Emiley J : 2012-04-18
Description: Microsoft document clearly says, the directory synchronization frequency CANNOT be changed. What you can do instead is to manually initiate the dirsync to run as and when you want using the powershell
23. Setting up Office 365 in Android phones and tablets
By: Emiley J : 2012-04-04
Description: In a recent Office 365 migration from On-premise exchange to Office 365, everything was fine except for the Android Activesync setup. In fact, we were trying all sorts of different settings and finally found this one which worked in all the android devices.
24. Error: "the current user is required to be a builtin\administrator directory sync - Office 365 Directory Sync
By: Emiley J : 2012-03-16
Description: You have been running dirsync tool to sync your on-premises Active Directory to your Office 365 successfully. One day, the machine reboots or due to some other issues you found that the Active Directory is not syncing any more. So you went to the server that runs dirsync to find out. You check the EventViewer and true enough the dirsync tool throws this error. Or you try to manually run the Directory Sync Configuration Wizard and it fails at the last step with this error, 'the current user is required to be a builtin\administrator directory sync". To resolve this do these steps
25. Change primary e-mail address of a Office 365 user or group
By: Emiley J : 2012-03-16
Description: If your office 365 account has multiple domains and aliases, and one user has multiple proxy addresses then when there is always a primary email address for each user or group. To change this for any user you can run this following command.
26. How to configure Outlook in a staged migration of Office 365
By: Emiley J : 2012-03-16
Description: Recently while doing a migration for one of the customers, we had a tough time with the first migration batch. Luckily the first batch was only 3 emails and all of them were from their IT department. Their setup was using On-Premise Exchange 2003, On-Premise AD also running 2003. And the migration method we chose was using ADFS for Single Sign On and Directory Sync for synchronization of users. Everything went well until we did the first batch migration.
27. Configure IIS as SMTP relay server for Office 365
By: Emiley J : 2012-03-16
Description: While migrating to Office 365, one of the issues you will face (and often forgotten) is to support legacy applications or websites that send out emails. For example, a feedback page on the customer website, will have to send an email by connecting to the SMTP server. Or another common scenario is when you have Printers, these printers usually will send emails after scanning, or after receiving a fax etc.. Here is a solution.
28. Making your Alias email as 'Send As' in Office 365
By: Ashley : 2012-01-19
Description: I have come across this many times and it is hard to find the right document. Most of them are misleading. They suggest to use distribution list as a workaround. But this solution below lets you use the outlook to configure your alias email to be used as 'Send As'. For example you have two emails [email protected] and [email protected] or [email protected] and you want to be able to send emails as any of these emails. It is possible and you can achieve it as below. I found this in the 365 community forum and posting it here for easier reference.
29. Steps to Create Shared Mailbox in office 365
By: Ashley : 2012-01-12
Description: In this example, the company is in a staged migration, with single sign on and directory sync. So the email '[email protected]' is under 'generic accounts; in the on-premise AD. After sync, the same email is synced to the office 365. There is another user named [email protected]. Here, the [email protected] email is converted to 'Shared Mailbox' and [email protected] is given permission to access the inbox and 'SendAs' [email protected]. The following steps will achieve this.
30. xxxx cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get-help about_signing" for more details.
By: Ashley : 2012-01-12
Description: Resolved: While running any of the commands in your windows Powershell for Office 365 if you encounter this error: xxxx cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get-help about_signing" for more details. then follow these steps to resolve it.