What’s new in Windows 10 Server Technical Preview 2 for the Office 365 IT Pro (AD FS vNext)

One of the very few benefits of not being able to attend Ignite is to quickly check on any new features announced there, while sitting comfortably in front of your PC. Earlier today at Ignite, a new preview for the next server version of Windows was announced. I took the …

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Preventing users from browsing Azure AD via the WAAD PowerShell module

Few months back, this question popped out on the Office 365 Yammer network. ​Ryan Marchant was worried about the fact that any sing-in enabled Office 365 user could just login with the WAAD module for PowerShell and export all the user information with a few simple cmdlets. While I argued that …

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Soft-matching mechanism for dirsync and ‘mail’ attribute

Well, apparently you can (now?) use the ‘mail’ attribute to do a soft-match between an on-prem user object and a cloud one. Am I the only one that never knew this? 🙂 I cannot actually recall testing this in the past, but all the documentation we have about the soft-match …

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How to add a shared mailbox as additional account in Outlook

NOTE: You can find an updated version of this article here. Shared mailboxes are just one of the many great collaboration features of Exchange, and probably the most used one. There is a lot of information about them on the web, for example this TechNet article. Unfortunately, there are still some …

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