I recently had to work out what the full set of attributes was that could be set against a user or a group in Active Directory. My first thought was ok why not just grab a user in PowerShell and ask to see all properties Get-ADUser -ResultSizeLimit 1 -Filter * -Properties * However that only […]
Office 365 new Inactive Mailbox Licenses
Important: Microsoft has decided not to go ahead with the plan. One of the advantages of gathering at Ignite is the chance to have some in-depth conversations about topics. Microsoft was gracious enough to understand that they need to do some more work to understand how tenants use inactive mailboxes before they should introduce new […]
Windows Server 2016: Access Denied for Admin Shares
We recently had an issue that started of with a problem promoting some domain controllers in Azure. We’d set up the site to site VPN and wanted to stretch the Forest into Azure. It seemed like a simple plan… Problems arose when we promoted the domain controller with errors such as System log: Can’t process […]
The Banker Technology Projects of the Year Awards 2017
Did you know, Nero Blanco has a long-lasting relationship with HPe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), BT (Binary Tree) & HSBC? For the last 4 years we have been the leading technology consultancy, developing and customising the back bone of the migration and coexistence environment for HSBC’s 300,000 mailboxes. From the pilot stage of the Mercury programme […]
Additional Mailboxes in Office 365 – More delegation woes
As at today we have an interesting problem and an open ticket with Microsoft Office 365 that is being escalated to Product Support. The scenario is pretty straightforward. Sharing a Mailbox via Full Access (no automapping) + Send on Behalf of Rights and attaching it in Outlook as a “New Account” (NOT as an additional Mailbox) […]
Outlook Personal Mailbox Delegation Wizard – The ins and outs
Unexpected Results of User Initiated Outlook Delegation Without getting too much into it, all Exchange Administrators have had to deal with this scenario at some stage or another. In my opinion Microsoft still have not address this very well for enterprise or even small customers. The whole end user experience is misleading, it creates the […]
Summarizing GDPR
You may well have heard about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) but do you know what it means for you? The detailed information is found on the ICO website, but let’s summarize it for you Does GDPR apply to me? That broadly depends on the question “Do you hold or process ‘personal’ or ‘sensitive’ information […]
Introducing a new product Microsoft 365
At Inspire there was the announcement of a new product ‘Microsoft 365’. At the enterprise level this replaces ‘Secure Productive Enterprise’ which has been available in E3 and E5 SKUs. Microsoft 365 includes Office 365, Enterprise Mobility and Security as well as Windows 10 Enterprise. So not much new so far aside from a new […]
Redirect your standard folders like My Documents to OneDrive for Business
Have you ever wondered wouldn’t it be better if every document I worked on was saved to the Cloud without me having to copy or move it there, wouldn’t it be nice if my Default Save As location was OneDrive for Business? Well, you can and it’s easy. What we need to show you is how […]
Enhance Notes and Outlook Coexistence – Policy Suggestions
Introduction Recommendations for new customers moving to Microsoft Outlook from IBM Lotus Notes. Despite the presence of 3rd Party Coexistence solutions such as Binary Tree Coexistence Manager for Notes the rescheduling of repeating meetings is still not able to be resolved in certain scenarios. Specifically: “this and all future instances”, and to a lesser importance […]
New exciting partnership – All-in-One Management Solution for Office 365
Here at Nero Blanco we are really proud to announce our newest partnership with 4ward365 . 4ward365 has a proven track record, really helps our customers maximise their investment, provides real world insights and alerts when embracing Microsoft cloud services. Have a read from one of our valued customers Karen Hardy Studios how they transformed their efficiency […]
Backup GPO Settings with retention
Backing up Active Directory should be part and parcel of creating a forest, however an often overlooked area is GPO settings. Of course these are backed up along with AD, but restoring settings from an AD backup is pretty traumatic. GPO settings should be backed up so that you can quickly apply an older version or […]
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