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Quickly Troubleshoot Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard Timeout Errors in a couple of steps
Introduction to Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard The Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) serves as a pivotal tool for organizations aiming to integrate their on-premises Exchange servers with Office 365. This wizard simplifies the intricate process of...
Basic Authentication – Time to deal with legacy protocols
On October 1, 2021, I wrote about Basic authentication in my TechGenix blog post and I wanted to remind everyone that the deadline is approaching fast when this will be turned off. Here is the TechGenix Post:...
Office 365 – Multi-Factor Authentication setup for Users
MFA helps secure user sign-ins for cloud services beyond just a single password. With MFA for Office 365, users are required to acknowledge a phone call, text message, or app notification on their smart phones after correctly entering their passwords. They can sign in...
Office 365 – Microsoft Support and Recover Assistant Tool
Microsoft have this great tool that assists with issues on Office 365. As a test I didn't patch one of my newly installed office 2013 installations and attempted to setup a profile for a mailbox hosted on Office 365. The result was endless credentials boxes being...
Office 365 – Bulk import of Contacts
In Office 365 we can easily import contacts from a CSV file vs having to create them 1 by 1. The first step in doing so is to connect to our Tenant using Azure PowerShell. To do this launch Azure PS as Administrator, you should get a window as shown below. The next...
Office 365 – Move a cloud Exchange user back to on-premise
To move a Mailbox from Exchange Online (o365) back to Exchange On-Premise has a few steps more involved. If you try move a mailbox from o365 back to exchange on-premise using the EAC on Office 365 it will fail, more below: In this example, User5 was setup to move back...
Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) – Exchange 2013 and Office 365
The new Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) introduced in CU9 and in the newer CU's works pretty nice and streamlines the setup process. Lets take a look at running the HCW on the Exchange 2013 Server. Login to the EAC. Click on Hybrid on the left. Here you need to...
Move an On-Premise Exchange User to o365
With Exchange 2013, it is simple to move a user from on-premis to the cloud. Moving a user from the cloud back to on-premis takes a few more steps but will be discussed in a future post. To move a user to Office 365, you can do so from the O365 tab in the Exchange...