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. […]
Add open with Notepad as Administrator
So often do I work on my laptop or on servers and I have to open a file in Notepad to edit it, however the file is protected so you have to not only be an administrator but you need to use ‘Run as Administrator’ Now that’s all well and good if the menu item […]
Sysmon Configuration with DSC
As part of a project I’m working on I was asked to install and configure Sysmon on all servers using DSC (Azure Automation DSC in this case) After a bit of effort I came up with the following Configuration xSysmon { param ( [string] $SourcePath = “”, [string] $LocalPath = “”, [string] $ConfigFileName = […]
Bandwidth Latency’s Relationship to Throughput
This post aims to explain bandwidth and latency individually and then look at how they relate to throughput. It came about when discussing how some transfers like mailbox moves got nowhere near to using the overall capacity on a network link, and also why SMTP transfers for large emails were taking much longer than expected. […]