Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

How to connect to Office 365 with PowerShell

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As an Administrator for Office 365, you can use PowerShell to manage a lot of your administrative tasks such as user management and domain management. The following is needed: MS Online Services Assistant needs to be downloaded and installed MS Online Module for PowerShell needs to be  downloaded and installed Connect to Microsoft Online in PowerShell Download MS Online Services Assistant Download the OS version needed: Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant – 32 bit version …

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How to setup HDHomeRun Dual with Windows Media Center

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Last night I spent some hours on configuring a HDHomeRun DUAL box with Windows 7 Media Center. It took some time to get it worked right. So I thought I’ll share my experience and my end results of the configuration that works for with Stofa (Cable Provider) in Denmark. First there is a good guide available on the HDHomeRun site: Windows Media Center – Windows 7. Although it misses some configuration parts, which works in …

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How to force Directory Synchronization for Office 365

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You can force a manual Directory Synchronization for your Office 365 tenant. The step are: Log into your DIRSYNC server, the one running the Directory Synchronization Tools Start a PowerShell session Navigate your way to: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Online Directory Sync Run the cmdlet: .DirSyncConfigShell.psc1 – this starts the Directory Synchronization Configuration Shell Run the cmdlet: Start-OnlineCoexistenceSync When the command completes. The Online Portal will get updated based on the synchronization. See the eventlog on the …

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How to set the postmaster address in Office 365

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By default when Exchange Online in Office 365 is setup for your organization, the postmaster address, e.g. [email protected] is set to [email protected]. This means that when someone sends mail to your organization and gets an NDR back, the sender is: [email protected]. If you want to change this, you can do so using PowerShell for Exchange Online. The procedure for changing this is: 1. Connect to your Exchange online using PowerShell 2. Change addres using command: …

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Campus Days update – my session is now available online

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Back in October I did a session at Microsoft Campus Days in Copenhagen about Exchange 2010 and Forefront Protection for Exchange and Forefront Online Protection. That session was recorded and is now available online as webcast. The session is in danish and available on TechNet DK: http://technet.microsoft.com/da-dk/edge/Hh690919 Let me know what you think.