August 2018 – SharePoint Hub Sites

SharePoint Online Hub sites are now rolled out 100% to all tenants. In themselves they are a combination of Teams and Communications site which can then have multiple Teams and Communications sites associated to them. So had a play with this - in our production SharePoint of course - and found that you cannot convert … Continue reading August 2018 – SharePoint Hub Sites →

August 2018 – Office 365 Training Presentation

At the start of the month, on behalf of SUBNET, I had the opportunity to deliver some training and insight into Microsoft Office 365 to the IT Staff at Mercedes College in Adelaide, South Australia.   They have already begun their journey of Digital Transformation, making use of Forms and Teams in addition to the Office … Continue reading August 2018 – Office 365 Training Presentation →

June 2018 – Deep in PowerShell – Detective Work (Calendar Permissions)

Investigating what calendars a user or group has access to Using a recent incident as an example here. User C was found to have full access to User A and User B's calendars; the CEO and GM respectively. But how did they have access? Ran the following command to see what permissions were present on … Continue reading June 2018 – Deep in PowerShell – Detective Work (Calendar Permissions) →

May 2018 – Hybrid O365 User Life and Death

Mailbox Restore/Recovery Just sharing some of the fun processes I learnt and played with this month, to restore some tricky, deleted AD users. Microsoft Troubleshooter Tool https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/09/02/introducing-the-mailbox-recovery-troubleshooter/ https://aka.ms/MailboxRecovery Restoring Soft-Deleted Mailbox to another Mailbox https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/122196-so-you-need-to-recover-a-soft-deleted-disconnected-mailbox-merged-to-another-user-on-exchange-online #Connect to Office 365  $UserCredential = Get-Credential  $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection  Import-PSSession $Session # List the … Continue reading May 2018 – Hybrid O365 User Life and Death →