How to assign mailbox to a different user with Exchange Online

Sometimes, you might want to assign an already existing mailbox to another user. With on-prem Exchange, this can be easily achieved. In Exchange Online however, there are certain limitations that prevent you from doing this. For starter, you don’t have access to the Disable-Mailbox cmdlet (removing the Exchange license from …

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Command line for OneDrive for Business sync

​Prompted by a question on the Experts Exchange forums, I decided to investigate how you can pass a Document library address as a parameter to the OneDrive client. The answer was of course revealed by using the wonderful tools Mark Russinovich created: the Sysinternals Suite. More specifically, the Process Explorer tool. All …

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Why you should not use CNAME record for your Azure hosted AD FS servers

​Most articles you will find on the internet, which provide instructions about installing your AD FS server (farm) in Azure, will advise you to publish the external DNS record as CNAME. There is some advantages in doing so – since Azure is public cloud service, the VIP of the service …

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Endless loop in OWA with error about incorrect permissions

Another random discovery, this time it’s nothing serious. While I was trying to reproduce the OWA hold issue using only folder permissions, I run into this endlessly looping error message. Not really a major issue, but certainly causes an inconvenience (especially to EO users that might not have access to Outlook). …

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