Posts Tagged: Office 365

Uninstall Microsoft Teams cleanly

22nd January, 2020

Teams Cache Cleaner Try 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]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables(“%AppData%\Microsoft\Teams”)) -Directory | ? { $_ -in (‘blob_storage’,’Cache’,’Application Cache’,’Code Cache’,’databases’,’GPUCache’,’IndexedDB’,”) } | % {Remove-Item $_.FullName -Recurse -Force}Get-ChildItem -Path ([System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables(“%AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\meeting-addin”)) -Directory | ? { $_ -in (‘Cache’,”) } | % {Remove-Item $_.FullName […]

Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migrations

13th June, 2019

Given the growth of Microsoft Office 365, tenant-to-tenant migrations were inevitable and have become more and more frequent.

Tenant-to-tenant migrations have essentially become the new Exchange and AD migrations we all know and love from the last 15 years.

If an Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration is on your horizon then you are going to have to rely on good planning, 3rd party tools, manual tools and IT Consulting Services from trusted professionals, and that’s where Nero Blanco comes in.

Protecting Office 365 identities on a shoestring

28th March, 2019

We hear about identity theft and protection all the time in IT. For Office 365 there are number of things you can do to help protect your organisation The flagship approach from Microsoft is Microsoft 365, which is a suite of products that together work in harmony. However harmony and simplicity does cost… Microsoft 365 […]

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 […]

Using a Virtual Mobile Phone for Shared Multi-Factor Authentication

2nd July, 2018

As an IT support organisation, we pride ourselves on staying up to date as much as possible with current trends and changing technologies, particularly in the Microsoft space.  As such we keep a keen eye on technical blogs, whitepapers, LinkedIn articles, Twitter, Microsoft Office 365 notifications and of course we are part of the Microsoft […]

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 […]

Nero Blanco becomes a Power365 Certified Partner

23rd November, 2017

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 […]

OneDrive – Files on Demand

25th October, 2017

Window 1709 (Fall Creators) has a great new feature called Files on Demand.  It is a OneDrive feature that we actually talked to Microsoft about at Ignite in 2015.  Basically it makes OneDrive more like other file syncing tools, where the file names and directory structure is always shown but the file content may or […]

Office 365 new Inactive Mailbox Licenses

20th September, 2017

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 […]

Summarizing GDPR

26th July, 2017

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

14th July, 2017

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 […]

Enhance Notes and Outlook Coexistence – Policy Suggestions

15th June, 2017

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 […]

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