SharePoint 2010’s rich text editors make it pretty easy to format text and insert media, but they also make it difficult to embed Flash content. In order to streamline the HTML generated by the Content Editor Web Part and other edit boxes, Microsoft decided to automatically remove non-essential tags. Any time we try to embed […]
Posts Tagged ‘Office 365’
SharePoint Saturday Chicago Slides
Last month, I had the distinct honor of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Chicago. Kudos to the organizers for putting on another great event. Here are slides from the two sessions I presented: Office 365 Deployment Strategies Moving to Office 365 provides the perfect opportunity to clean house and get SharePoint […]
Creating Bulk AD User Accounts using PowerShell
I am sure most administrators have received a request to create several AD accounts due to acquisitions, mergers, or for other reasons. I had one of those requests which consisted of populating an AD environment that was to be used for Directory Synchronization with BPOS/Office 365. There are a lot of Bulk AD scripts out […]
Office 365-SharePoint Online Disabling the “My Site” Feature
ISSUE: When working with several clients to get them started with SharePoint Online, many clients are not yet ready to give users the full functionality/customizations that the “My Site” feature provides. Whether it is the social features, personal features, or just the creation of a personal site, many clients feel like they need their users […]
Access Denied on the Portal and Mailbox is inaccessible after migration to Office 365
We’ve migrated many users from an external messaging system, like Lotus Notes or GroupWise to Office 365.On one of our migrations, we ran in to an issue with a migrated user.When this user tried to logon with their AD credentials (ADFS deployed), they would constantly be prompted for their logon credentials.When we logged on to […]
Changing look and feel in Office 365 public web site. (Overview)
If you have the P1 plan, you get a public web site that you can customize. This is pretty neat. Office 365 gives you plenty of tools to create your own look and feel. Here is an overview of the basic functionality provided to customize your site. You can set the width of the page […]
Activate Office365 users via Powershell
With general availability of Office365 in the horizon, new features are being activated every day. One such long-awaited feature is activating users via Powershell instead of from the portal site. To do so follow these steps: Download the MSOL services module from here: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/Office365-enterprises/ff652560.aspx Connect to office 365 with following commandlets $cred = get-credential (enter […]
Modifying Target Address in Quest NME for Exchange/BPOS/Office 365 Migration Testing
In preparing for a migration to Exchange, BPOS, or Office 365 testing is crucial. The advantage to using a third party tool such as Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange is the ability to easily modify certain attributes, such as the SMTP Target Address, for migration testing purposes. In this scenario, the object is to prepare […]
Customize Office 365 Dirsync
To change the frequency of Dirsync: 1. In Windows Explorer, locate the Microsoft.Online.DirSync.Scheduler.exe.Config file in the following folder: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Online Directory Sync. This is the default installation location. 2. Start Notepad, and then open the Microsoft.Online.DirSync.Scheduler.exe.Config file. 3. Change Value=”3:0:0″ to the time period that you want. Use Hours:Minutes:Seconds format to specify the time […]
Office 365 non-migrated Notes users missing in GAL
In migrating from Notes to Office 365, the outlook shared address book or GAL only showed users who have active accounts in Office 365. As you can imagine this creates problems for users who have been migrated to Office365 as they are unable to find addresses of users whose mailboxes still reside in notes. All […]
Determining the best way to create shared mailboxes in Office 365, when performing a migration from Lotus Notes or GroupWise
While planning your migration to Office 365, you have a couple options when provisioning Shared Mailboxes in Office 365.Microsoft does not charge you to create Shared Mailboxes in Office 365, if you do it right.Here are your options to create Shared mailboxes. Typically, when planning a migration from a Lotus Notes or GroupWise messaging system, […]
Anxious to get on Office 365 but restricted by your BlackBerry population? Here are your options.
As many of you are aware, Office 365 will not have BlackBerry services out of the gate.BlackBerry services are expected to be available, for free, later in the year. So what are your options? Well, the quick answer is to just move all your BlackBerry devices to a device that supports ActiveSync. Realizing this is […]