Following on from this post:Office 365 Migrations - What happens to Outlook Meetings with embedded Teams URLs? - Nero BlancoWe developed a tool to strip out Teams info from Calendar invites, so that new Teams info co...
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Uninstall Microsoft Teams cleanly
Teams Cache CleanerTry 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]:...
Where do emails sent to the default Microsoft Teams email address go?
Where does the default Teams email go?When you first create a Microsoft Team it allocates an email address for the Team. That email address is built by the Display Name (with spaces and special characters remove...
Inside Kerberos – 3: SIDHistory
In this blog we will be exploring SID History, and it follows on from Part 1 which gave an overview of Kerberos, and Part 2 which was all about SIDs. The attribute sid-history has been there right since Windows 2000 and is used to store all of the SIDs that an object has had. […]
Inside Kerberos – 2: SIDs
In Part 1 we set the scene in regards to how Kerberos works at a high level, so let’s now get down and dirty with Security Identifiers (SIDs) What is a Security Identifier (SID)? From MSDN: “A security identifier (SID) is a unique value of variable length used to identify a trustee. Each account has […]
Inside Kerberos – 1: Overview
I recently did some work at a client to help migrate them to a new Active Directory. While setting up the migration including password and SidHistory syncs I told them to be careful of Domain Local Groups which can cause issues if users are nested directly in them. Now I knew this was true, but […]
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 […]
The Groups Dilemma – post migration
Today a client that we had previously migrated off Lotus Notes asked us about applying Groups to their Shared Mailboxes in Office 365 but ensuring that the Shared Mailbox Owners had the ability modify those Groups to provide access. This blog very much goes hand in hand with this blog I wrote on Shared Mailboxes, […]
Uploading Microsoft Office Templates to SharePoint
Introduction We have a current client that deal directly with blind and partially sighted people. They have a customised Word Template where the default normal font must be Arial size 14 with Headings etc additionally edited for their needs as well. (We also know many other client that use lovely nice corporate (paid-for) branding and […]
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NeroBlanco Lotus Notes to O365 MaaS
We’re often asked why our Migration as a service offering is more advantageous than any on-premises solution an organisation could wish to deploy. Typically if a company has decided to host their email in the Microsoft cloud they have already familiarised & accepted all the certifications which Microsoft abides by in their services, like […]
DirectAccess warm standby without IPv6
DirectAccess has come a long way and with Windows Server 2016 it is pretty easy to install as a single site, single server deployment. What if you need additional resilience though, what if you want a fail over server? You can of course go down the multi-site route but that needs IPv6 to be deployed […]
Securing the Azure AD Connect account
Azure AD Connect (AADC) integrates your Active Directory with Azure Active Directory (and from there with the various Active Directories for your workloads) AADC has an account on-premises that has rights within Active Directory and depending on what you are syncing back from Azure AD to on-premises those rights can be extensive. Microsoft has issued […]
Nero Blanco becomes a Power365 Certified Partner
Nero Blanco has become a Power365 Certified Partner! Power365 is a Binary Tree product that solves Office 365 cross-tenant integration and migration challenges for when your organization goes through a merger or acquisition, has users in multiple Office 365 tenants, like multinationals, or has separate operating divisions. Nero Blanco sees this kind of integration and […]
Synchronisation of the LegacyExchangeDN
An interesting challenge was discovered at a client recently during testing in a development (pre prod) environment. Whilst we were not the architects of the directory synchronisation, it serves for a great blog/article. A very very large customer (300k users) is deploying some additional Exchange forests for their final countries to migrate to Outlook […]
Inside the Microsoft Azure Datacenter Architecture
This is a summary of a great session by Mark Russinovich talking about Azure Inside Azure Datacenters Data center design When Microsoft plans new data centers they start with geographies (Geos) which are gradually coming down to country (Germany, France, UK, etc). Within a geo there are at least two regions (region pair). A region […]