You cannot turn off Active Directory synchronization

This issue seems to be popping up on the different communities, so I though it’s time to put a blog post on it out there. In short, you try to enable (or disable) Directory synchronization in Office 365, and you are greeted by the following error message: The DirSyncStatusChangeNotAllowedException error …

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Office 365 Permission Inventory: Calendar permissions

It’s time for another article in the “permissions inventory” series. This time, we will take a look at Calendar permissions, more specifically the permissions on the default Calendar folder in users’ mailboxes. This kind of report is useful for keeping an eye on collaboration between your users (including external sharing), …

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Report on last activity date in Office 365

The question “when did user X last login” is one often asked, and until recently there was no good way to report on this. Granted, Exchange Online has the LastLogonTime exposed via the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet, but what about other services? Well, as part of the latest additions to the Office …

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Office 365 Permissions Inventory scripts vol2

Continuing the Permissions inventory series, I’ve published two new scripts and their corresponding articles in the past month or so. The first scenario deals with mailbox forwarding, as it seems to be a common ask on the different Office 365 communities/forums. There are many ways forwarding can be configured, thus the …

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