Yesterday we had an all company meeting and I thought it would be cool to kick it off with a quiz to keep everyone engaged. I had been thinking about my parents and reflected on the technology changes that they have witnessed in their lifetime. They were both born in the late 1940’s, so allow […]
Streamline Microsoft 365 Workflows with Power Automate for SharePoint and Teams
Discover how to create reusable Power Automate flows that work across multiple SharePoint sites and Teams channels without duplication. This blog explores key triggers, actions, best practices, and tools like Encodian Trigr to help you scale automation efficiently—saving time, reducing rework, and boosting productivity across your Microsoft 365 environment.
Nero Blanco achieves G-Cloud 14 accreditation
With extensive migration experience, fixed-cost services, and tailored support, we’re your trusted partner for complex IT projects on G-Cloud 14.
Microsoft Teams for Education Migrations
At Nero Blanco, we specialise in conducting Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations. With experience migrating close to a million seats, our projects have ranged from small 50 user projects to larger ones with up to 70,000 users. Our clients range from small and medium business through to enterprise level organisations of over 300,000 employees – covering […]
Outlook Rules not running automatically
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.
Identify shadow mailboxs (InvalidLicenseException)
When we perform migrations, the customer is responsible for choosing the objects which should migrate (for this blog example; users, resources, shared mail). Often this also includes choosing the AD or AAD identities they want to sync from one place to another too, so that target identities can be provisioned and mailbox’s created. We ask […]
Privileged Access groups (Preview)
From Microsoft: What’s the difference between Privileged Access groups and role-assignable groups – Azure AD – Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Docs We saw this new feature, liked the look of it, read about it and then set about implementing it. In my opinion I don’t think Microsoft had a well documented process for implementing it […]
Azure AD Connect v2.0 – Why should I care?
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 […]
Microsoft Teams Meetings that Require Registration
Sounds like an awesome new feature right? Well it is, kind of. Just isn’t well documented or obvious in the GUI how to use it and set one up! Firstly, you can’t do this from Outlook, you have to use Microsoft Teams. Step 1 – Create Event Go to your Calendar, go to top right […]
Fixing Azure AD Join for Windows 10 Provisioning Package Error 0xCAA2000C
We are working with Declaration Software on their Windows 10 Workstation Migration Agent. The Workstation Migration Agent is capable of migrating Computer Accounts from On-Premises AD to Azure AD, AD to AD, and Azure AD to Azure AD. This includes migrating a Workstation where it has been Azure AD Hybrid Joined and instead making it […]
Remove Teams Info from Calendar Invite – Don’t Host Online
Remove Teams Info from Calendar Invite – Don’t Host Online.
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. […]