Tag: PowerShell
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IT/DEV Connections 2016 – Enterprise Collaboration Track
IT/DEV Connections 2016 is coming up in October and a great set of sessions will be delivered in the Enterprise Collaboration track covering Exchange and SharePoint on-premises, Office 365 from programming to implementation, and lots of ask the expert sessions.
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – September 2015
September 2015 included a visit to Las Vegas for IT/DEV Connections, a conference that I value greatly because of the quality of the speakers, the content, and the audience. One of the things that happened this year is that the agenda emphasized the holistic nature of Office 365. By this I…
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Connecting to SharePoint Online with PowerShell
In my last post, I covered the basics of connecting to Exchange Online with PowerShell, including some optional modules to handle Azure Active Directory Rights Management and the Rights Management service. Another module you might have to load allows you to manage SharePoint Online. I don’t use this very often…
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Using PowerShell to convert Exchange Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups
At last week’s Microsoft Ignite conference, I had the chance of attending a session called “Evolving distribution lists with Office 365 Groups” (a recording of the session is available online). The session described the integration with Outlook 2016 (no plans exist to back port the technology to Outlook 2013) and…
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New management cmdlets for Office 365 Groups
Several of the sessions about Office 365 Groups given at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago have addressed the obvious deficiency in management controls that exist in the initial implementation. Part of this was the total inability to create new groups or remove existing groups with PowerShell. You can run Get-GroupMailbox to…
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PowerShell to the rescue to control Exchange 2013 logging
I’m sure that you, like me, pay close attention to Microsoft’s stated requirements to install Exchange 2013. It is, after all, gripping reading of the kind that is guaranteed to lull the reader into a deep sleep within 22 nanoseconds. In short, it’s material that you try and read just…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2015
February might be the shortest month but that’s no reason not to have lots to discuss on my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month – a lot about the new Outlooks apps and Delve, but some other stuff too, including a new estimate for the…
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Adapting Exchange on-premises scripts for Exchange Online
Since the introduction of PowerShell in the form of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) in Exchange 2007, many scripts have been written to ease the burden of Exchange administration by automating common operations. Microsoft has broadened the scope and depth of EMS in every release by enabling management of more…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2014
January is often a time for reflection. In my “Exchange Unwashed” blog over the past month I reflected on topics such as the need to carefully count Client Access Licenses, the impending deadline for support for some well-known and still-used products and why Managed Availability exists. Lots more happened too……
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2013
Statistics show that 118 new posts appeared on my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com during 2013. I was responsible for the good posts and am unsure as to the author of anything that was rubbish. Here’s what happened during December 2013 – you might have missed the last few posts…
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