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 […]
Uninstall Microsoft Teams cleanly
Teams Cache Cleaner Try this one last time… Start PowerShell as Admin and run: Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Processtaskkill /IM teams.exe /F /TGet-ChildItem -Path ([System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables(“%AppData%\Microsoft\Teams”)) -Directory | ? { $_ -in (‘blob_storage’,’Cache’,’Application Cache’,’Code Cache’,’databases’,’GPUCache’,’IndexedDB’,”) } | % {Remove-Item $_.FullName -Recurse -Force}Get-ChildItem -Path ([System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables(“%AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\meeting-addin”)) -Directory | ? { $_ -in (‘Cache’,”) } | % {Remove-Item $_.FullName […]
Renamed Channels in Teams
Overview In case you hadn’t noticed, we here at Nero Blanco do a lot of migrations. We are fully immersed in tenant-to-tenant migrations these days and we are always seeing and learning interesting issues. Like Microsoft Teams Channels that have been renamed in the Team itself. Most people now by now that a Team is […]
Reconfiguring the OneDrive for Business Desktop Application
How do you resolve OneDrive for Business reconfiguration after a tenant to tenant migration? In short, the user must unlink their OneDrive for Business client and relink it – but there will be remnants…
When is the right time to cut over your DNS MX record in a migration?
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
Efficient Lookups in PowerShell
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. […]
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 […]
Active Directory: Source has exceeded the tombstone lifetime
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 […]
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.
Protecting Office 365 identities on a shoestring
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 […]
VM troubleshooting in Azure
Azure is a great service for hosting virtual machines, however sometimes VMs get into trouble and aren’t able to boot… Then you find yourself longing for a keyboard and screen connected directly or via Hyper-V or ESX. Alas don’t despair there are two options that may help! Serial Console Within the Azure Portal there is […]
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