Office-365 on Janik von Rotz

Backup your OneNote files

Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:01:23 +0000

If you’re using OneDrive to sync your OneNote files, all OneNote data is stored online. There’s no “real” file containing your notes on your computer. However by default OneNote backs up your Notebook. But you might not be shure where that is?

Office 365 DirSync do not import disabled users

Tue, 06 May 2014 09:13:03 +0000

One of my clients mentioned that he follows people in the newsfeed who weren’t employed any more.

Occasionally we disable the this kind of users in the Active Directory but don’t delete them.

It seems that DirSync doesn’t filter disabled accounts.

New Office 365 user can not be found in directory

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:22:32 +0000

As part of the user provisioning process in my company every user account gets an Office 365 license.

2 days ago in the after noon I’ve created an new user account, synced it with DirSync and applied an new Office 365 E1 license.

When I’ve tried access the SharePoint Online website via ADFS SSO, I received an error message like this:

For those who couldn’t attend SharePoint Conference 2014

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:23:00 +0000

For those who couldn’t attend SharePoint Conference 2014 including me, the guy from Absolute SharePoint Blog has published a script to download all slides and videos of the presentations at SPC2014.

Introducing new SharePoint Online Cmdlets

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:19:56 +0000

So far Micosoft doesn’t offer the same amount of cmdlets to manage a SharePoint Online instance as they do for an on-premise installation.

As many other SharePoint administrators I can’t wait to get new cmdlets. Luckily Jeffrey Paarhuis recently published a project on Microsoft Codeplex and showed how simple it is to manage a SharePoint installation just with client-side libraries and functions.

Seconds later I’ve migrated his functions into my project: https://codeberg.org/janikvonrotz/PowerShell-PowerUp

I’ll introduce you the new:

Update Obsolete User Principal Names in Office 365 Windows Azure Directory

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:02:55 +0000

It could happen that the directory sync service (DirSync) doesn’t sync the users UserPrincipalName correctly.

I had an issue where the UserPrincipalName from a user in the Office 365 windows azure directory has been made based on the user’s sAMAccountname. This wouldn’t be problem if as long the sAMAccountname is the as same as the UserPrincipalName, but as you can guess this is not everywhere the case.

Do not forget to update to Microsoft Office 2013 when using Office 365 or SharePoint Online

Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:07:01 +0000

When deploying a published SharePoint 2013 on-premise installation or a Office 365 installation or a SharePoint Online installation, it’s highly recommended to update your Microsoft Office 2013 installation.

ADFS Login Customization

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:04:41 +0000

The purpose of this article is to show the intention and implemention of the most common modifications for the ADFS login page.

Out of the box the login form should look like this:

The f.e. is by default the page url, this can confuse the user, due they expect something like “your login” or “Office365 Login”.

Manage access rights to the Office365 portal

Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:24:08 +0000

In addition to my last script showing how to manage the user licenses in Office365 I’ve written a new script for assign, remove or replace the access rights in the office365 portal.

The script has the same structure as the license management script, feel free as always to copy and alter this script or asking me questions about it.

Handling user password change and expiration issues with Office365 and ADFS – Part 2

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:50:49 +0000

https://janikvonrotz.ch/2013/08/08/handling-user-password-change-and-expiration-issues-with-office365-and-adfs-part-1/

This is part two of my experience in handling the password change office365 architecture issue.

Last time I’ve built a simple script to notificate the users about the status of their passwords. In the mean time we (me and another employ of the “vbl Informatik”) built a simple website for the office365 users to change their password.

Office365 ADFS Chrome Login fails

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:49:40 +0000

Today I experienced an exotic behaviour, a client couldn’t access his Office365 page due he wasn’t able to login on the ADFS authentication prompt.

After googling and binging (just kidding, NERD) I found a simple solution.

ExchangeOnline OWA Policies - Disable OWA light

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:11:32 +0000

To alter the Exchange owa policies you can access them Using the Office365 administration site and navigate to the Exchange section. In the default policy editor are only limited options available.

![owa policy settings](/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2013-09-09-09_45_09-Outlook-Web-App-Postfachrichtlinie.png)

Manage ActiveDirectory Distribution Groups

Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:39:11 +0000

With Office365 connected with an ADFS you have to redesgin your Exchange distribution groups. ADFS only syncs distribution groups that have these definitions:

~~Group scope is universal~~
Group type is distribution
Group members have to be users
- Yes, it's not possible to have security groups or something else as distribution group members.

My idea was simple, I’m developing a script that creates for every OU and child OU I’m chosing in the ActiveDirectory structure a distribution list containing the users of the chosen OU recursively.

Create a Office365 user license report

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:14:46 +0000

With over 350 users in the Office365 cloud as in my case it’s difficult being aware of which licenses I really need.

To help my out I’ve made an ActiveDirectory group which holds the allowed Office365 users. And with this PowerShell script I look up every Office365 user and his licenses and check if this users is allowed to use Office365.

ExchangeOnline Region Presettings

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:37:23 +0000

This post is part of my Office365 experience. Today I’ve made a script to get startet with the ExchangeOnline PowerShell console.

Every time a user logged in for the first time into the Office365 Outlook webapp, he had to set his regional configuration.

Office365 and ADFS: Activate licenses for users depending on AD group membership

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 07:48:44 +0000

On Office365 the users have to be licensed in order to get access to the Office365 application. I’ve developed a PowerShell script which add a license depending on the group membership in the ActiveDirectory.

Office365 SharePoint Backup und Restore Facts by IOZ AG

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:33:30 +0000

In diesem Blogbeitrag schildern wir Ihnen die Fakten der Datensicherung Ihrer SharePoint Online Plattform:

Handling user password change and expiration issues with Office365 and ADFS - Part 1

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:41:37 +0000

Recently I’ve setup a Office365 Service with ADFS (Active Directory Federation Service) and a DirSync Server.

Sadly I forgot about a huge disadvantage in this architecture, due to using ADFS as an authentication provider, it’s not possible to change a users password. The communication form the local ActiveDirectory environment to the cloud based Office365 services is only one directional.

That’s why there are only 2 options yet to handle the user password change and expiration:

Disable the users password expiration or
Set up a enterprise connected platform to deal with the password change and expiration.

At this time option 1 is active in my environment and option 2 is my goal.

In this post series want to show you the solution I’ve developed.

Let’s start with password expiration. Because Office365 doesn’t handle password expiration, that’s why I have to use another channel to show the users on which date their passwords expire: Let’s do it with an bulk e-mail job.