Monthly Archives - December 2017

21Dec2017

How to bulk create users in a hybrid environment with Office 365 Exchange Online

In a hybrid Exchange environment, user accounts are created on-premises, but then licensed through the Office 365 portal (to enable mailbox access). Admins often provision hybrid user accounts incorrectly, and sometimes this needs to be cleaned up after the fact.  But, if you want to do it right the first...
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14Dec2017

How to link an existing on-premises AD Account with an Office 365 Exchange Online mailbox

I see this issue a lot out in the field. Admins sometimes create a confusing mess out of their Hybrid Exchange environments, because they don't create users in the "right way." In a hybrid environment, users should (ideally) be created from the on-premises Exchange server, not from the Office 365 portal,...
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07Dec2017

Password best practices controversy

Last year, Microsoft published this guidance on passwords, which contains some advice that departs from traditional best practices. For example: Eliminate character composition requirements (e.g. multiple character types @, 2, A, b) Eliminate mandatory periodic resets (do not enforce expiry) The reasoning is based on Microsoft's research, and...
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