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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
Inactive mailboxes are a very nifty feature in Exchange Online, allowing you to preserve mailbox data indefinitely in order to meet legal requirements. And as an added bonus – they are free. So in case you are not aware of this functionality or if you are not actively using it, …
Continue readingInactive mailboxes in Exchange Online, Discovery Search and permissions
This post is provoked by a question over at the TechNet Exchange forums. I’ve always known that you can get the retention tag associated with particular mail item or folder using the EWS, and I have bookmarked some great articles on the subject (for example this one and this one), …
Continue readingGetting item/folder retention policy with EWS