Janik von Rotz

Making Exchange Distribution Lists Externally Available

This might not be best practise but based on the situation you as administrator have to enable this feature.

Making distribution lists externally available is great for spammers, so if you enable this feature, do this as less as possible.

To enable a exchange distribution list for external use I recommand to use this simple PowerShell command:

Set-DistributionGroup <groupname> -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $false

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PowerShell Function Template

A good way to start writing a custom function in PowerShell is an advanced template like this. This is my custom PowerShell function template, whenever I’m writing a new script I’ll start with one of my templates. Having consistency in structure and naming of code is an important part in collaboration.

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Kinaj 24 - Insane Butterfly (chill, deep house, minimal)

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Manage Security Groups in a organizational Strcture

As in on of my last post I’ve showed you my approach to manage distribution groups in the hierarchical structure of an ActiveDirectory installation. In the mean time I’ve adapted a similiar approach for the security groups.

Here is an example of the structure:

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ADFS Login Customization

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:

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

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Kinaj 23 - The Taste of Kiwi (House)

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Archive ActiveDirectory Users and their Mailbox

One of my company’s requirements is the retention time of 10 years for user accounts and their mailbox data, I have to admit, this might not be common or even recommended. However I have to deal with it.

One problem to face is the availabilty of user account names, by the number of about 500 employees there’s a hight change that two or even more people are having the same name.

To clean up the available names in the system I’ve written a script that renames a users identity and the mailboxes address. So let’s see what this script does:

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SharePoint File Reporting Done Right

To know what type of information a SharePoint Installation is holding could get more difficult as the platform grows.

To set quota templates on the site collection is a good way to keep an eye on the SharePoint storage, but it doesn’t’ show the real used storage.

In case versioning for files is enabled and/or the users don’t check in their files properly these files using space without let you know.

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Kinaj 22 - Robot Unicorn (progressive house)

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Kinaj 21 - It’s a Trap (trap)

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