09Jul2021
23Sep2020
Deploying Conditional Access Policies via PowerShell
There is a new GitHub repository available from Microsoft: Manage Conditional Access policies like code. Similar to the infamous Intune samples repo from which I and many others have built their automated Intune setup scripts for new tenants, this repo is replete with the resources that you need for accomplishing...
06Aug2019
Updated: Exchange Online baseline / best practices scripts
I recently updated the scripts that I use to provision new Exchange Online tenants and configure them according to best practices, and I just uploaded these edits to GitHub. The main script is Baseline-ExchangeOnline.ps1--this is like a "master" script that contains almost all of the others (with a couple of...
10Sep2018
How to quickly provision Microsoft 365 Business subscriptions for Exchange Online and ATP using PowerShell
Hey folks, Microsoft 365 Business is a really cool subscription for small businesses, and if you are doing these configurations for a lot of tenants, then you're probably going to want to automate some of the setup. Today I'm going to share a script I use to quickly configure my...
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...
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,...
16Feb2017
Hyper-V Failover Cluster: Basic Setup
I have previously shared a slightly more complex method for configuring a simple 2-node failover cluster, involving a converged Hyper-V virtual switch, with QoS policies and so forth to manage traffic on the Management, CSV and Live Migration networks. However, there is another config I wanted to share, which in some cases...
08Aug2016
Hyper-V Failover Cluster: MPIO & CSV Storage
Continuing our last post on Hyper-V Failover Clustering, we turn our focus from networking to storage. To bring storage into the picture, we will have to provision some volumes from Storage Spaces, our SAN or other Shared Storage device. This varies by vendor, so see their documentation for more details. However you...
04Aug2016
Hyper-V Failover Cluster: Converged Network
In this post, we will look at a concept known as "Converged Networking" for setting up a simple two-node Hyper-V cluster (a great option for small businesses). The basic idea is that all of your physical network adapters will be brought together as a single NIC team, and thereby made...
20Jun2016