When is the right time to cut over your MX in a Migration? This is a question that is often posed to us, particularly when migrating from Lotus Notes and Domino to Office 365
Where do emails sent to the default Microsoft Teams email address go?
When you first create a Microsoft Team it allocates an email address for the Team, but… if you send an email to this address, where does it go? Initially I thought I had read it was delivered into the General Channel, but that is wrong, and any emails I sent never arrived.
Office 365 Migrations – What happens to Outlook Meetings with embedded Teams URLs?
When you create a meeting in Outlook and choose a Microsoft Teams meeting from the ribbon, the body of the meeting is automatically populated with the Teams meeting details. Something like this: SUMMARY During a migration none of these details are updated/edited/replaced by any vendor I have asked. FIX Have all Chairpersons update their meetings […]
Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migrations
Given the growth of Microsoft Office 365, tenant-to-tenant migrations were inevitable and have become more and more frequent.
Tenant-to-tenant migrations have essentially become the new Exchange and AD migrations we all know and love from the last 15 years.
If an Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration is on your horizon then you are going to have to rely on good planning, 3rd party tools, manual tools and IT Consulting Services from trusted professionals, and that’s where Nero Blanco comes in.
Creating an Azure VM from a SysPrep image that was Security hardened by GPO
Resolved an issue logging in first time to an Azure machine that had been cloned from a hardened base image.
Merging Two Office 365 Mailboxes
There are many reasons why you may want to do this but probably the most likely is the “Leaver” scenario. A common way of dealing with leavers is to simply convert their Mailbox to a Shared Mailbox and then terminate the user account. (Sometimes, but not very often these days, it is exported to a […]
New Application Guard Window in the Edge Browser
Every now and then you receive an email with a URL in it that makes you pause and think. Maybe it’s from a colleague or a friend, and almost looks legit, but something is telling you it might not be. Maybe you are doing your own research on a subject matter that may lead you […]
FindTime – by Microsoft
Booking a meeting? Need to find available times? We work with a multitude of different clients from the pre-sales process, thru to implementation and project closure. Very often there are many stakeholders but getting everyone together at a time that suits is often tricky. Every attempted scheduled meeting takes precious time, be it through calling […]
Using a Virtual Mobile Phone for Shared Multi-Factor Authentication
As an IT support organisation, we pride ourselves on staying up to date as much as possible with current trends and changing technologies, particularly in the Microsoft space. As such we keep a keen eye on technical blogs, whitepapers, LinkedIn articles, Twitter, Microsoft Office 365 notifications and of course we are part of the Microsoft […]
Offering Remote Help in Windows
One of our clients recently asked to present all their options for Remote Support to their end-users. This organisation, like many others is always keen to keep costs down and has opted not to use a third-party solution, but instead to leverage existing native tools. To that end we put together a list of the […]
Technical Limitations of Migrating IBM Domino Rooms to Exchange
Recently we observed an issue with Domino Rooms that we migrated to Exchange/Office 365. In short, appointments contained within cannot be cancelled or re-scheduled and always remain as zombie reservations (unless manually cleaned up). Coexistence This is addition to coexistence issues experienced with Rooms. You have to set Microsoft Rich Text to disabled for the […]
Paying it forward…
Paying it forward… Well, not really, just plain old IT email forwarding. We all (Messaging Admins) have used forwarding extensively, but it struck me that there are several ways to achieve the same thing. Most often the forwarding scenario comes up during the following scenarios: Coexistence (mergers / acquisitions / divestitures) Upgrades (migrating to a […]
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