Control Services for Office 365

Some customers want to control the services that are being pushed by Microsoft to ever expanding office 365 portfolio. They want to first explore these before activating it for users, we were recently in such a situation where cutomer wants to disable few services. Customer wants that these should be disabled for all Users as…

ADD additional SMTP Email Address Exchange Hybrid

When you run Hybrid Wizard for setting up Exchange onpremise to Exchange online integration, one of the step –> updates the email address policy to include alias@domain.mail.microsoft.com.  This adds additional email address to all the users that have Automatically update Email adddresses based on e-mail address policy is checked. There are always mailboxes in the…

NetApp Space Reclaimer

This has been requested by our Storage Team as they were doing lot of manual stuff , uploading it in the community may be it fulfills needs for others as well. It can act as reference script only as every environment has different needs. Below were the requirement: Monday, Wednesday, Friday Run reclaim commands on…

Playing with Files – Azure Storage

In this blog post I will demonstrate the idea of if you want to upload some files images to Azure Storage so that you can use it, There are multiple methods that can be used but simplest ones are using Microsoft Azure Storage explorer and Azure storage copy command. Download the Microsoft Azure storage explorer…

Change ActiveSync Policy Based on AD group

There has been a requirement that we need to change the policy of certain users & need to automate the process based on AD group. We have written below script to do this job, this script uses QAD AD Shell & Exchange management shell. It fetches group members from the AD group export them in…