Lately we’ve been running into issues with client’s connecting to Office 365 and having high latency with this connection. this results in issues such as “Outlook is not Responding” & “Getting data from server outlook.Office365.com”. Both of these issues disappear when running in Cached mode due to less data-traffic being required for normal operations such…
I work in the SMB, and we migrate most of our clients to Office 365 from local exchange servers. Often we still use a local server for user and computer management and move the users from Small Business Server 2008/2011 to Server 2012R2. The caveat of this is that you often also bring along Exchange…
One of the fantastic benefits of having Microsoft partner portal access is the ability to remote manage your clients/tenants. One of the downsides of this is that the partner portal is sometimes somewhat slow, or has a convoluted approach for remote management. A great way to resolve this is by using PowerShell to manage the…
Azure MFA is a fantastic product – Its easy to setup and maintain, and not very costly to purchase (for pricing, click here). The great thing about Azure MFA is that it becomes very easy to secure your local directory, but also your remote desktop connections or RDS your 2008/2012 farms. There is just one…
I’ve been rolling out a lot of large AADSync deployments recently – I love how AADSync gives a SSO experience to the SMB markets without having to deploy ADFS. But as always these deployments in SMB markets have some downsides; The default configuration for AADSync/Dirsync is that it logs everything using tracing and ForeFront MSSQL Logs.
Using DirSync or AADSync sometimes has its drawbacks when you want to migrate using third party tools…