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Powershell Script to fetch List of Administrator and Service Principals on Azure Active Directory/ O

May 29, 2017
2 min

Powershell Script to fetch List of Administrator and Service Principals on Azure Active Directory/ O

Well I got a request from one of my customer who had an Office 365 subscription with more that 20000 users and wanted to know the list of administrators who were managing the Azure AD. Well, as usual the issue was that getting the list from the UI was an option that needed scrolling of multiple pages. Hence, I was told to craft a script for him which would give him all the information he needed. Surprisingly, my script also revealed information about service principals regist

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Automate Office 365,EMS,Azure AD Premium Licensing on basis of Group Membership

May 17, 2017
1 min

Automate Office 365,EMS,Azure AD Premium Licensing on basis of Group Membership

Often admins have complained that they are not able to assign Licenses to users on basis of groups. Although, if you are a powershell geek, you could have done this. However, for a layman it was a tedious process. Fortunately, Microsoft has listened to your feedback. You can now add licenses to users on the basis of Group membership. The video below will show you the steps involved. This shall require you to login to the Azure Portal. In my case I have created a Group called

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How to get List of Groups in Office 365 and its Members in a consolidated output using Powershell

Oct 17, 2016
1 min

How to get List of Groups in Office 365 and its Members in a consolidated output using Powershell

Recently I happened to come across a situation where a customer requested to get group membership of all groups in a consolidated output. There is a limitation with the Command Get-MSOLGroupMember i.e. It only gets the output of one group at a time. Hence, I created the following script to get a consolidated output. Hope it helps you all. Following is the script and E.g of the Output:- The Above Code Is a Single Line Code. Make sure that when you copy the above , and all of i

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Mar 25, 2016
2 min

Granular licensing details on office 365

Have you ever come across situation where you assiged a just an exchange license out of the E3 stack and your organiation now wants to get a detailed report of all the licenses assigned? Now, this might appear simple to a beginner and the a simple answer to this problem will be to run the command Get-MSOLUser -all | select UserPrincipalName,DisplayName,Licenses .Ironically this won't give you the granular information you are looking for and would state the entire stack for th

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How to get list of email addresses associated to a mailbox from Office 365/ Exchange Online?

Jan 23, 2016
2 min

How to get list of email addresses associated to a mailbox from Office 365/ Exchange Online?

I was going though a case where a customer wanted to get rid of a domain and for some reasons,each time he tried to remove the domain he would get to see this, after waiting almost for hours:- Problem is that sometimes office 365 portal won't give you a correct error message while removing a domain and there is a good chance that an object is blocking domain removal because its associated with the domain which you are trying to remove. I had tried using powershell to get this

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Finally Yammer licenses, now can be assigned individually

Jan 23, 2016
1 min

Finally Yammer licenses, now can be assigned individually

I just dropped in at work when I was amazed to see this:- For a while I thought perhaps this is just a tile , but I had also seen a message which was this:- To my excitement, I couldnt resist to check the licensing tab but indeed now you could add Yammer as an individual license. This was something that many administrators were wanting since quite a long time. In the past it was way to difficult to control the yammer access, because yammer was enabled tenant wide and activat

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Password set to never expire on local AD, yet user gets a prompt to update the password on office 36

Jan 19, 2016
2 min

Password set to never expire on local AD, yet user gets a prompt to update the password on office 36

I had came across an unusual situation where the user account was synced from AD and the password sync was working just as fine as I was able to reset passwords with no errors, ironically with some users who had the password set to never expire, started getting messages on office 365 to reset the password as it had expired and this blew up my mind for a while. According to Microsoft's documentation Link- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn246918.aspx if you enab

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How to troubleshoot password sync issues on Office365 and Azure AD on AD Connect and DirSync

Jan 13, 2016
3 min

How to troubleshoot password sync issues on Office365 and Azure AD on AD Connect and DirSync

We often come across issues where all of a sudden passwords stop syncing to Office 365 and Azure AD. Now its not known why this happens but certainly there's a fix for it. But even before we start troubleshooting look out for events in the event viewer because its highly possible that perhaps you are looking at the wrong direction. If password sync stops working you should come across events like 611 (As shown in the image below) but this is not the only event that you shall

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Office 365 ProPlus Installation Report

Jan 10, 2016
1 min

Office 365 ProPlus Installation Report

Microsoft recently had announced a report for Office 365 ProPlus installation done by users (http://success.office.com/en-us/roadmap#R-18376) . This is something that customers were demanding since quite a long time as it was quite difficult to track how users are using office 365 within the organization. Good news is that this feature is now available, but as a part of the new office 365 portal. If your organiation is signed up for updates, you should be able to view this re

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Step-By-Step guide to Hard Match a user on Office 365 or Azure AD

Jan 8, 2016
3 min

Step-By-Step guide to Hard Match a user on Office 365 or Azure AD

Often we see errors like attibute value must be unique when we try to sync a user to the cloud service like Azure AD or Office 365 and despite we update the primary SMTP address or mail attribute in the AD we get to see an error something like this:- No matter how hard we try, we can't sync the user across. There might also be situations where the UPN that you setup on the cloud differed from the the local UPN and you have a duplicate object with the same proxy address or UPN

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