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So What is KMS ? KMS stands for the abbreviation (Key Management Service) in which enterprises and big companies manage their Software, End user and Servers licenses keys through a single server (Called KMS) which automates the whole process of activation and eliminates the need for an individual or admin interfering to activate them. Prerequisites […]
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Azure RMS, RMS for O365 / Exchange Online / Licensing / Office 365 December 25, 2019
READ MOREThe Story I got a request to place users into Security Groups for management purposes, The client have already users active but many of those users have left the work place and still have E3 or E1 Licenses which they should not have since this is pricey licenses and backing up users details is the […]
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Upgrade FRS to DFS: You might be searching on how to do this due to many reasons, Migrating your DCs to Windows 2016 or Windows 2019, The steps to do this type of migration is pretty easy and straightforward. First Let’s explain a bit about what does FRS and DFS do and what is the […]
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Active Directory / Exchange 2016 / Exchange 2019 / Exchange Online / Microsoft / Office 365 / Powershell December 19, 2019
READ MOREThe Story: I have got this client who constantly keeps on making the mistake of create user from Cloud and provision them with a license in an Exchange Hybrid environment. Although this is not difficult to fix but it’s not the recommended approach when creating a new user especially in a Hybrid environment since Exchange […]
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The Issue: So while working on a new Exchange Migration project, I have encountered a weird issue where I could see users migration batch status complaining about being stalled due to (Big Funnel). The error is showing as in the below screenshot and it doesn’t occur instantly after you start the migration of the user […]
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Exchange 2016 / Exchange 2019 / Microsoft Exchange / Office365 December 16, 2019
READ MOREThe Story During a project of Hybrid migration from Exchange on-premises to Exchange online, I was almost about to finalize the project by moving the last remaining users mailboxes however had an interesting issue to deal with where a user was failing with the following error: Error: Error: MigrationPermanentException: Mailbox dumpster size 50.87 GB (54,620,074,576 […]
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Lync / Microsoft Lync / Skype for Business 2015 December 16, 2019
READ MOREThe story I had a project few weeks ago where my client wanted to install Skype for Business 2019 but had installed Lync before and removed the server without doing proper decommissioning which kept dirty records in AD database and had to be removed manually in order to make a new clean installation of Skype […]
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Exchange 2019 / Microsoft Exchange / Office 365 December 16, 2019
READ MORESymptoms MRSPROXY.SVC’FAILED BECAUSE NO SERVICE WAS LISTENING ON THE SPECIFIED ENDPOINT. THE REMOTE SERVER RETURNED AN ERROR: (404) NOT FOUND You get an error when you’re trying to setup Hybrid configuration between your Exchange On-premises and Exchange Online. After I had one issue like this I did some research and used Fiddler/Wireshark to check for […]
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The story: I have got a request from a client asking to find out which server(s) is using which domain admin or a highly privileged account as a service. To find this I already wrote a powershell script that does this, Search the non standard/(Domain only users) and show the services and name of the […]
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Azure / Azure RMS, RMS for O365 / Exchange 2019 / Exchange Online / Office 365 / Office365 / Powershell October 25, 2019
READ MOREPart of Office 365 security auditing is to ensure that all users and groups in your organization are created for a purpose of which you’re aware of and can control these users, groups. After auditing groups on Office 365 Exchange CP, I noticed that it’s not possible to bulk or multi delete groups from CP […]