Category: Exchange migrations

Google to Microsoft 365 Migrations – Part 1

14th March, 2024

Addressing common issues with Google to Microsoft 365 migrations With experience migrating close to a million seats, Nero Blanco specialise in Microsoft tenant-to-tenant migrations – so much so that our team have been described as “world leaders in Microsoft migrations”. We pride ourselves on our expertise in this area. Our projects have ranged from small […]

Working with the on-premises AD Recycle Bin

20th February, 2024

Generally in day to day identity management you would not often need to resort to the Active Directory Recycle Bin, but when you do, typically it is a high priority request and you find yourself having to reacquaint yourself with the commands you need. Accidental deletion scenarios Where we have seen the need to restore […]

Outlook Rules not running automatically

13th February, 2024

Recently we received a support request from a client regarding Outlook Rules for a shared mailbox not running automatically – but they would run manually by the end users. The had been running successfully up until now without issue. Being an Exchange Admin and Outlook specialist, I figured I would get this resolved in no time. Well it turned out to be a bit trickier than we had anticipated.

Microsoft Gold EIGHT times over!!!

4th June, 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 […]

Accessing Shared Mailboxes

19th May, 2020

Previously I wrote a blog about the ins and outs of connecting a shared mailbox and the benefits of connecting to it in Outlook a specific way. I’ve updated this here with the later versions of Outlook screenshots and a shorter version of just why and how. The original blog is here https://www.neroblanco.co.uk/2015/04/the-shared-mailbox-dilemma/ and to […]

Guest Account conflicts with Exchange Online

15th May, 2020

Guest Accounts not receiving email notifications In truth, this blog could have been called anything.  Probably the Guest Account dilemma, but I have used that kind of title a few times now, none the less – it is a dilemma.  This is a blog I have been wanting to write for ages, because it has […]

Case Study:- HSBC

23rd April, 2020

PDF version of the case study. Otherwise, please continue to find full text below. Improve Productivity and Enterprise Mobility Globally by Building and Supporting Email Migration Systems Nero Blanco partners with HSBC to migrate more than 270,000 mailboxes to deliver improved collaboration EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As one of the world’s largest banking and financial organisations, HSBC […]

Merging Two Office 365 Mailboxes

2nd October, 2018

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

27th September, 2018

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 […]

Technical Limitations of Migrating IBM Domino Rooms to Exchange

21st June, 2018

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 […]