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Ignore the title, I rarely find the exact words. Here’s the issue, which I encountered on a question asked over at Experts Exchange: the person asking the question was unable to remove the Online archive for a user synced from their local AD. Trying to disable the archive from the …
Continue readingDeprovisioning on-prem authored Online archive for synced user
Did you know that there is a limit on the number of errors a single dirsync run can have? Neither did I until recently, and we found the hard way. So, after a little research, it turns out that there is indeed a default limit of 5000 errors, and once …
Continue readingDirsync error limit (“stopped-error-limit” error message)
I stumbled upon this question on the Azure AD forums at MSDN. Since the AADSync tool is relatively new, and has few changed bits compared to Dirsync, taking on tasks such as this one is rewarding in several ways. The starting point is of course the documentation, namely the Configure …
Continue readingHow to prevent disabled accounts from syncing to Azure AD when using AADSync
Some of you might remember the issue we had with custom mailbox quotas back in the wave 14 version of Exchange Online. Namely, the UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults value was set to True for every mailbox and there wasn’t any way to change it to False. This in turn meant that any values …
Continue readingCleaning up the wave 14 remnants – the UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults ghost
Changing licenses in Office 365 is usually something you do upon provisioning new users, and when migrating between different SKUs. Most of the other time you dont even think about it. But what if you have taken a different approach in onboarding your users, by activating only subset of the Office …
Continue readingEnabling individual services with PowerShell