Office 365

Slidedeck from my OneDrive for Business session at the Everything Windows User Group Meeting

Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting a session about OneDrive for Business at the Everything Windows User Group Denmark, at a location in Aarhus, Denmark. Thanks for attending my sessions (those of you who did). Here you will find the Slidedeck from session Managing OneDrive for Business: Managing OneDrive for Business from Peter Schmidt In my session, I talked about scripting resources for OneDrive for Business, I will also list these here: bit.ly/NIC-OD …

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Microsoft OneDrive Expert (MODE) member

I am happy to announce that about a month ago, was accepted into a fairly new Microsoft OneDrive Expert (MODE) Program. From the e-mail I Received from Microsoft: You have been identified as one of the top IT pro influencers in the world due to your knowledge and impact on the IT pro community around Microsoft technologies. The MODE program was launched (…) as an effort to not only drive global awareness and value of …

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New Azure AD Connect version (1.1.484.0) Released (April Update)

A few days ago Microsoft Released a new version of Azure AD Connect, which is now incremented to version 1.1.484.0. This new April update includes a lot of new features and improvement: Fixed issues: Azure AD Connect sync Fixed an issue where the sync scheduler skips the entire sync step if one or more connectors are missing run profile for that sync step. For example, you manually added a connector using the Synchronization Service Manager …

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How To Change The Language and TimeZone Settings on Mailboxes in Office 365

Recently I have had a few scenarios, where we had to change the Language and Time Zone of all or certain specific user Mailboxes in Office 365. So I thought, I might as well write up, this blog post, to collect all the information needed, to change setting on Language and Time Zone on Mailboxes. This would also work for Exchange (on-premise), it is the same cmdlets. If you need to do this, you need …

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First Look at the New Azure AD Group Based Licensing Feature

Yesterday Microsoft Release one of the most long awaited features of Azure (Office 365). The feature to assign licenses based on Group membership. Until now it has only been possible to assign them individually, or you would have to do something using a PowerShell script and achieve the same.   Here are the main features of group-based licensing capability: Licenses can be assigned to any security group in Azure AD. Security groups can be synced from …

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