I’ve just been reading on Mike Pfeiffer’s blog this article about connecting Remote Powershell to Office 365. I’ve not yet got my beta account on Office 365, but do use Live@EDU/Outlook Live and had been wondering how similar administration is. It turns out that it’s exactly the same (even down to the server names) therefore…
PLEASE NOTE: This is NO LONGER supported and provided as-is for information ONLY. The information here relates to pre-Hybrid configurations that used the Consumer MFG. It does give you some background as to how Office 365 does Federation, though some steps have changed. For a modern “under the hood”, see this article. As organizations move to make use…
Note: This article is out of date and was published in 2010, and relates to when Exchange Online was provided as a service to Education as Live@Edu, and used “Managed” Microsoft Accounts rather than Azure AD. This isn’t a post for everyone – it’s aimed at Administrators of a Live@EDU / Outlook Live environment who…
If you’re planning a migration to Exchange 2010 that won’t be completed overnight, you may want to be able to run Exchange Powershell scripts that execute both Exchange 2007 and 2010 cmdlets from the same script. There’s a few reasons for doing this, including: If you use logic to determine where to place new user…
There’s not many circumstances where you’d want to set forwarding on lots of mailboxes at once – but if you’re in that situation (perhaps you’re moving mailboxes to a Cloud mail provider) it’s useful to know that it’s fairly straightforward and can be accomplished with a little PowerShell. In the example below, we’re assuming that…