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Get List of Videos from Microsoft Stream

2nd February, 2022

Getting a list of videos from Stream, so that you can look to migrate them or just to see what is there is hard. There is not much information on the Web about how to go about doing this, especially on large tenants. My colleague Conrad has been working with the script from Powershell Script […]

Azure AD Connect v2.0 – Why should I care?

15th September, 2021

Azure AD Connect (AADC) was released many years ago and has seen many versions over those years. Microsoft fairly recently introduced a policy where older versions would be sunset after a period of time. Now with the deprecation of components that the current AADC versions use, it has released the v2.x branch of Azure AD […]

Conditional Access and Hybrid AD Join

19th February, 2021

It is quite common to use the Hybrid AD Join device state as part of Conditional Access. Whilst it isn’t as strong a Require Compliance Device, it is much easier to attain in an existing estate with mixed hardware. If you’re having trouble getting the device the Hybrid AD Join, or to show AzureADPrt = […]

Microsoft Gold eight times over!!!

19th February, 2021

We are always striving to be the best, whether that is to our Clients, our Partners or our Vendors and Distributors. We have been a Microsoft Gold Partner (Productivity, Platform, EMS, Datacenter and Application Development) for several years now, which with a smaller team is no mean feat! We are please to announce that we […]

Troubleshooting Hybrid AD Join

19th February, 2021

Hybrid AD Join is often used for Windows devices that are joined to an Active Directory domain, and that also need to be joined to Azure AD to provide a level of trust in the device and its management. First of all familiarise yourself with these articles https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/how-to-connect-sso-quick-start https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/hybrid-azuread-join-managed-domains At a high level they say […]

Microsoft 365 Licensing

26th July, 2020

We are often asked which components are covered by which of the Office 365 or Microsoft 365 licensing SKUs. Well as luck would have it, Aaron Dinnage has a great github repository dedicated to this question Aaron has loads of variations on the above to also look at education and business as well as focus […]

Three new Microsoft Silver Competencies

22nd May, 2020

We are always striving to be the best, whether that is to our Clients, our Partners or our Vendors and Distributors. We have been a Microsoft Gold Partner (Productivity, Platform, EMS, Datacenter and Application Development) for several years now, which with a smaller team is no mean feat! We have now added three new Silver […]

PowerShell Get-History

20th February, 2020

One command that I love to use in PowerShell is Get-History. It retrieves all of the commands that you have run in this session. You can use the id and count parameters to pick a single command or a number of commands including and prior to the id e.g. Get-History -id 10 -count 5 gets […]

Working with Saved Messages in Microsoft Teams

19th February, 2020

Microsoft Teams is revolutionising how we communicate with a company. It speeds up working together, allows fast collaboration and retains business knowledge within a place that isn’t lost when someone leaves the organisation. One problem though is information overload and managing which conversations you still need to get back to…! Luckily you can mark a […]

Efficient Lookups in PowerShell

21st November, 2019

When writing scripts in PowerShell we often need to do a lookup in another dataset. Of course one way is to use an external tool like Excel with VLOOKUP or SQL Server with its joins and produce a data set that can be used in PowerShell without any lookups, but sometimes this just isn’t practical. […]

Active Directory: Source has exceeded the tombstone lifetime

19th June, 2019

I was working with a client recently who had various Active Directory replication issues. They had a multi-domain forest in Windows Server 2008 R2 functional levels. Now the two fundamental errors were DNS zones duplicated between the domains (including the zones used by the subdomains) Network firewalls between the domain controllers One big call out […]

Protecting Office 365 identities on a shoestring

28th March, 2019

We hear about identity theft and protection all the time in IT. For Office 365 there are number of things you can do to help protect your organisation The flagship approach from Microsoft is Microsoft 365, which is a suite of products that together work in harmony. However harmony and simplicity does cost… Microsoft 365 […]