Office 365

Office 365: Remote Move Request: Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation

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Here are some field notes from a recent case on a hybrid Exchange 2010 deployment with Office 365 issue, The error we saw when trying to do a Remote Mailbox Move from on-premise to Office 365 was: Remote Move Request: Exception has been thrown by the target of invocation   This can happen if you have an Exchange Hybrid deployment configured and attempt to create a new remote move request from on-premise to the cloud (Office …

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Office 365 sessions at TechEd North America 2012

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As I have done the previous years, I have compiled a list of all the Office 365 related sessions from TechEd North America 2012, which runs this week (June 11-14) in Orlando, FL. They are all available as on demand recordings (webcasts) and slide decks are also online. Here is the complete overview of the Office 365 sessions: Licensing Your Public and Private Cloud with Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure, SQL Server and System Center …

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Personalize the OWA URL for Office 365

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I have received the follow question a couple of times, so I thought I would write a blog post about it. If it is possible to add a more intuitive and simple URL for mail hosted on Office 365? It is possible and described below. The known URL for Office 365 is: http://portal.microsoft.com – from there the users can access Outlook and SharePoint. But what if end users, just want to quickly access Exchange OWA. …

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How to configure Send As Permission to a User in Office 365

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If you need to give Send As Permissions to a User in Office 365, it can be done using a few simple commands in Exchange Online PowerShell. Send As permission is used when you need to give a user permission to use another recipient’s email address in the From address. First connect to your Office 365 tenant, using Windows PowerShell. To connect to Exchange Online, just start a PowerShell session and type in following commands: …

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How to Change The Retention Policy for Deleted Items in Office 365

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If you need to change the Deleted Items Retention Policy from the default 30 days to something else, e.g. 90 days. It can be done using a simple command in Exchange Online PowerShell (see my previous posts on how to connect to MS Online). When you are connected using PowerShell, the following command, will set the Deleted Items Retention Tag Policy to 90 days (instead of the default 30 days): Set-RetentionPolicyTag "Deleted Items" -AgeLimitForRetention 90 …

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