Office 365 Hybrid Deployment with Multiple Active Directory Forests

This article explains how you can deploy a hybrid Office 365 and Exchange on-premises environment with multiple Active Directory Forest. An organisation that utilizes an account forest and a resource forest to separate Active Directory accounts and Exchange servers in … Continue reading →

Configuring Azure ExpressRoute using PowerShell

Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute is a private connection from on-premises networks to the Microsoft cloud over a private peering facilitated by a network service provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish a faster, low latencies and reliable connection to Microsoft cloud services, … Continue reading →

Office 365 Hybrid Deployment with Exchange 2016 Step by Step

Hybrid Configuration Business Case. On-premises IRM- Information Rights Management (IRM) enables users to apply Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) templates to messages that they send. Antispam and malware protection- Mailboxes moved to Office 365 are automatically provided with antivirus … Continue reading →

Upgrading AD FS to Windows Server 2016 FBL

This article will describe how to install new ADFS 2016 farm or upgrade existing AD FS Windows Server 2012 R2 farm to AD FS in Windows Server 2016. Prerequisites: ADFS Role in Windows Server 2016 Administrative privilege in both ADFS … Continue reading →

Login to Exchange Online PowerShell using MFA

Once you enable MFA on Admin account, you will be denied access to EXO using PowerShell until you update Azure PowerShell version to latest. Download and install Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant and Azure Active Directory Connection preview Use Connect-MsOlService … Continue reading →

Exchange 2010/2013 to Exchange 2016 Migration Step by Step

Deployment Location: On-premises Target Environment: Exchange Server 2016 CU4 Current Environment: Exchange Server 2010 or Exchange Server 2013 or mixed Public Folder Location: Exchange Server 2013 Understanding of Exchange Server 2016: Exchange Server 2016 wraps up in two Exchange roles … Continue reading →

Enable multi-factor authentication for office 365 users using PowerShell

The script enables strong authentication for Office 365 users from a CSV input. Before you turn on strong auth or multi-factor auth, take necessary measure to communicate with users to notify them that they will have to register their mobile … Continue reading →