Questions tagged [microsoft-office-365]

Office 365 is Microsoft's subscription based cloud solution for business productivity. All server side components are hosted at Microsoft managed datacentres. Customers that subscribe to O365 have access to the latest business productivity software and can choose to be "entirely cloud based" or have a hybrid configuration where some on-premise servers are retained.

Office 365 is Microsoft's subscription based cloud solution for business productivity. All server side components are hosted at Microsoft managed datacentres. Customers that subscribe to O365 have access to the latest business productivity software and can choose to be "entirely cloud based" or have a hybrid configuration where some on-premise servers are retained.

Office 365 comprises of several Microsoft products for business productivity that are accessed through a subscription model. The offering currently includes Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Lync, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office. Other related products include Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft Project Online.

For more details on Office 365 please see

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SCCM 2012 R2 detection method not working

I'm creating an SCCM 2012 R2 application for Office 365. The install works fine (exits with code 0), however the application fails on detection. In testing, I'm trying a registry detection (as per this TechNet article and a folder detection (since…
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How to mask a website URL transparently redirecting in Windows Server DNS

I am trying to setup a SharePoint intranet site in Office 365. Our DNS provider doesn't support masked redirects like GoDaddy does. Masked redirects maintain the original requested domain in the browser URL bar. I have a split DNS configuration in…
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Connecting AWS AD to Azure AD

We are looking in starting to use AD in our office, the setup would be: On premise AD server for work stations Azure AD to support Office 365 AWS AD to support AD on our servers Connecting on premise to Azure is fine, but is there a way to connect…
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Merging Office 365 users with AD DS?

We have just started to deploy a Hybrid Office 365 Solution and we already had some users who signed up to Office 365 themselves, before we had full access to the domain and enabled DirSync. This has caused some issues. At the moment we have our…
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Moving from on-premise to O365

I am investigating what is required for a move for a client away from Windows SBS2008 to Office 365. The server has functions like Active Directory and Exchange 2007. There can be no hybrid solutions (which is what all the information seems to…
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Is there a way to block webmail access but still have outlook windows client work with our business office365 account?

We have just migrated our corporate email to office365. In order to give access to our outlook exchange servers it was necessary for us to open up our web filtering, allowing a number of additional Microsoft domains. This included domains such as…
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Identifying mailboxes with corruption Exchange 2013

We're preparing to rid ourselves of Exchange on-premise and are migrating from an outsourced hosting provider to go to Office 365. We're running a fully patched version of Exchange 2013, atop Server 2012, also fully patched. During the migration of…
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Cannot connect to Office 365 with PowerShell

I want to connect to Office 365 through powershell, referring to the tutorials a very simple task. But apparently not for me. I think I missed a simple but important trivia. Some info: license is Office 365 Buisness Essential Azure AD is…
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Setting up Office 365 / Exchange 365 email in Mail (32-bit) without logging in as the user?

There's been a recent change in policy at the place where I work that I cannot login to a user account without the user being virtually or physically present. In order to setup their account at present I login as their user, go to control panel,…
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Can an entire mailbox of deleted items be recovered in Office 365?

Recently an employee deleted their entire mailbox before leaving the company and there was no litigation hold in place. Is there any way to recover all of the deleted items, preferably via a PowerShell script? We'd need to recover all of the…
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Office 365 - Outlook shows Global Address List clicking "Rooms" during a meeting request

This appears to be a "known" issue, but apparently no fix for it. However, I've been impressed before at the tenacity of the experts here to figure out an answer/fix. ISSUE When booking a New Meeting in Outlook (2013 or 2010) and choosing the Rooms…
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How to update Outlook to point to Office 365 server instead of previous hosted exchange server?

I'm migrating from hosted Exchange 2007 using Sherweb to using Office 365. Once I've set up the mailboxes and migrated all data to O365 (using MigrationWiz), how do I least painfully update workstations or instruct users to update workstations so…
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Bulk update displayname attribute to match cn attribute for all AD groups

We are setting up ADFS for identity federation with a Microsoft Online service. The documentation states that "Groups without a displayname will NOT get synchronized..." We have over 250 groups that have a blank displayname attribute. Does anyone…
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What happens to Teams chats/discussion when an AD user is deleted and re-added?

I am experiencing mailbox issues with a user account in Office 365. My users are sync'd from my on-premise Active Directory using the Azure AD Connect application. I think I can resolve the issue by: moving the on-premise user to an OU that is not…
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How to Block an on-prem AD User from signing into their Office 365 online account through sync?

In the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal (Azure) I can block an active user from signing in using the " Block this user" option, pictured: However when our on-prem Active Directory server syncs our userbase up to 365, this option is overridden and that…
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