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For those that might have missed it, recently there was an issue with OAuth settings in Office 365, which resulted in funny scenario for some users. Namely, their contact list in Lync all of a sudden turned blank. Empty. Void. They opened the Lync client and saw nothing. Search was still working, and …
NOTE: This article was first published almost an year ago, since then I’ve added some additional methods and, thanks to a post by Mark Galvin at Experts Exchange, discovered a much easier method that does NOT require knowing the GUID upfront. I’ve reorganized the article accordingly, and left the older …
Continue readingHow to manually configure your Exchange Online (Office 365) email account in Outlook
As a person who uses mobile phones strictly as a phone and always prefers to perform other tasks on an actual PC, I do not pay much attention to all the ‘revolutionary’ applications, devices or even news on the subject. Still, we live in the BYOD era and lots of people appreciate the mobility …
Some fun facts about the status of accounts/mailboxes in Exchange Online: Shared and resource mailbox accounts are not blocked by default (i.e. the BlockCredential property is not set to True), they are disabled in Exchange. You can change the password for a shared/resource mailbox account by using the Set-MsolPassword cmdlet, and …
Continue readingWhat disabled really means in Exchange Online
Ok, I really have no idea how to name this one, so let’s just go on with the description. Say you have a company with several subsidiaries, using different domains and mail systems. You want to move some of the functionality to Office 365, while keeping mail as it is. …
Continue readingExternal address for internal contacts (sort of)