Bulk migrate to OneDrive from personal drive with SharePoint Migration Tool (Manual)
In this manual I will explain step by step how to migrate your users from their personal drive to OneDrive using bulk migration in SharePoint Migration tool. This includes preparing the users OneDrive, granting permissions, and setup SharePoint Migration tool. Prerequisites Before we begin, we will need a migration...
Completed Azure Solutions Architect certification
Last 2 months I’ve been working on renewing my Office 365 and Azure certifications. 4 years ago I already passed the “old” exams: 533, 534, 345, 346 and 347. This saved me a few exams. I was able to upgrade to Azure Administrator and Messaging administrator by passing the...
Office 365 Set mailbox default language
When you do large migrations, it might be convenient to change the default mailbox language settings for all your end users. By default each user needs to set the default language and time zone at first login to OWA in Office 365. With the following PowerShell Script you should...
Office 365 Cloud app security
If you want to improve your security in Office 365 it is recommended to add the EM+S E3 or E5 security suits. This gives you more information about what is happening with your users, but you can configure alerting and actions as well. So if you have the EM+S...
Go Azure AD joined with on-prem DC and fileserver!
Wouldn’t be cool to migrate all your laptops and desktops to Azure AD, but still have your on-premise file server for the people that can’t say goodbye to their network drives? Now it is possible! Azure is supporting out of the box, Azure AD domain joined devices to connect...
Let’s go password less, because passwords are bad! Part 1
Quite a statement, passwords are bad? Today I’d like to explain why you should work on better security by using other authentication methods than just 1 password. Why passwords are bad Password are problematic, very often you see that passwords fall in the hands of unpleasant people. Here are...
Backup your Office 365 environment!
In the past two years, Over 50 percent of businesses experienced an unforeseen interruption, and the vast majority (81%) of these interruptions caused the business to be closed for one or more days. Did you know that 80 percent of businesses suffering a major disaster go out of business...
Deploy Office 365 plugins using the Admin Portal
From the Office 365 Admin portal it is possible to deploy Office plugins to users, both specific as all users. With this manual we will deploy a plugin from the store, but you can deploy custom apps as well. The advantage of using plugins from the store is that...
Office 365 MFA is free of charge!
Where Azure MFA is only included in the paid Azure Active Directory Premium subscriptions (P1/P2 and EM+S suites), there is a free version for the Office 365 apps. It is always a good idea to enable multi factor authentication, in case your credentials get stolen, the thief will not...
What is Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EM+S)?
Enterprise Mobility + Security is a Microsoft solution specially developed for management and securing users, company data and applications. This gives you and your users always secured access to your company information without ever worrying about security! With EM+S we are moving from a managed device to data management...
Uninstall Office 365 Click-To-Run Updates
There are cases where you want or need to uninstall an Office update. Office 365 installations use a different update than the old Office 2013 & 2016 installations. Where the old installations are a point in time installation, click-to-run always downloads the latest version and then runs the setup....
Sync existing office 365 tenant with local active directory
Recently we created an AAD tenant that has no on-premises AD domain counterpart. Now we are facing an issue where we want to be able to use the identities in this tenant to log into some servers. It would appear that we would need to domain join these servers,...
Outlook 2016 search not working
Recently I was notified by a customer that Outlook search wasn’t working anymore as expected (Search not working at all, or missing results). After some searching I found out that this was caused by a Windows 10 Update where a shared DLL was updated: KB4467684 In the the end...
Microsoft Advanced Threat Protecion
Microsoft bied op verschillende diensten Advanced Threat protection aan. Helaas zit er marketing technisch nog steeds hier en daar de naam Defender aan vast, waar het onder water een compleet ander product is. Het is inmiddels geen simpel antivirus pakket meer, maar een all-in-one oplossing tegen aanvallen van buitenaf...
Modernizeer je identiteits en toegangs beheer met Azure AD
Door Azure AD als je centrale Identiteit opslag te gebruiken word beheer een stuk makkelijker en veiliger. Door Azure AD te gebruiken kan je voortaan makkelijk samen werken met andere bedrijven. Door gebruikers van een andere organisatie uit te nodigen, is het niet meer noodzakelijk om deze ook nog...
Microsoft Secure Score
Microsoft Secure Score is een manier om te meten hoe veilig je organisatie is in Office 365, Windows 10 en EM+S (Enterprise Management + Security). Hiermee kan je zien hoe veilig je organisatie is ten opzichte van het door Microsoft geadviseerde beleid, als ook andere bedrijven in dezelfde sector....