Joe Palarchio

Azure Active Directory Sync Services (AADSync) was made “generally available” in September 2014. While the old DirSync tool is still available (and actually still linked to in the portal), AADSync should be what you’re looking to deploy at this point. As we make this transition, there is a learning curve in trying to understand how […]

Many of the limits within Exchange Online are values that your users are unlikely to exceed. Despite this, we occasionally see situations where a limit is exceeded in ways you might not expect. As perhaps best illustrated by the fabled “640K ought to be enough for anybody” quote (falsely?) attributed to Bill Gates, the requirements […]

Trying to stay on top all the changes in Office 365 can be a daunting task. In a previous article, “How to Stay Informed of Changes“, I described some of the methods that I use to try and stay informed. One of those methods, the “Office 365 Roadmap“, seems to have been updated recently with […]

You did it! You migrated your organization’s mail environment to Exchange Online. The post-migration dust is starting to settle, the project plan tasks are nearly all checked off and you’re done, you’re finally done. …or are you? Below are a five tasks that can get overlooked when configuring your Exchange Online environment. While some may […]

As we wrap up 2014, I took a quick look back at my articles for the year and the distribution of topics. This was my first year posting here on the Perficient blogs and while the frequency of my posts was not as consistent as I might have liked, I’m sure my posts will be […]

When configuring an Exchange Hybrid environment, the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) handles the majority of the heavy lifting. Despite the automation of the HCW, my colleagues and I have noticed there are some settings related to “Remote Domains” that don’t always end up properly configured. The Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has evolved since its initial […]

Let’s pause for a minute and mark October 13, 2015 on our calendars; this is the final day of mainstream support for Outlook 2010. This is especially relevant to Exchange Online users as the system requirements for Office 365 state that it is designed to work with “any version of Microsoft Office in mainstream support”. […]

As an IT consultant, taking certification exams is a necessary task that most of us are quite familiar with. You can debate the value of the certifications or the ability of an exam to properly assess your knowledge on a topic but at the end of the day, it’s something you generally need to do […]

For organizations that deploy AD FS for single sign-on with Office 365, it is as critical of a component as their on-premises Active Directory. While you may have your mailboxes residing in Exchange Online in the cloud, if your on-premises AD FS is not available, users cannot authenticate to access their mailbox. There are a […]

The first time you assigned an Office 365 license to a user, you likely used the portal as opposed to PowerShell. There’s also a good chance you saw the error message below: Organizations populate Active Directory user objects with varied amounts of data. In many organizations, especially global organizations, the “Country” field is populated in […]

Exchange Online provides for a fair amount of flexibility; that said, there are a few aspects of the service that cannot be changed. These service restrictions are documented in the Exchange Online Limits for each of the subscription types. One limitation that you may encounter when migrating to Exchange Online is the “Message Size Limit” […]

In the recent article “Office 365 – Understanding Archiving in Lync Online“, I spent some time going through the differences between Conversation History and Archiving in Lync Online. While I’m not a Mac user, a commenter on that article asked about the behavior on a Mac. Certainly a valid question,after all, anyone that has used […]