Author: Harri Jaakkonen

Identity is the new perimeter and why information protection matters.

Your identity, identification or credit card is important, don’t loose them and don’t take it lightly. Even if talking about social security number or just your email. Both can be hijacked and used for purposes you don’t want. How you…

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Azure Cognitive Services – Speech

Hi all, Last week I was doing something really different (not new because I already knew a little bit of Java and .net) I guess that my mind set is going like Microsoft future plans for certifications. Half hardcore architect…

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Exchange Modern public folders and how-to cope with them.

With Exchange Hybrid public folders there is two options, either Legacy or Modern. You always have to migrate them to the cloud either thru Exchange Hybrid (13,16 and 19) and Exchange Hybrid (10) or with Third-party tools. If You have…

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Connect to Cloud with or without MFA and replace user licenses with menu.

Made a powershell script to replace or add user licenses based on the same csv that were used for Exchange Hybrid migration. First You need a csv to be like this, but probably You have it if You did a…

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Azure Dynamic Groups and how to use Extended attribute.

I wondered how to automagically add users to an Azure AD group with after their mailboxes have been migrated to the Cloud thru an Exchange Hybrid (Classic or Modern) And I figured out this one. Users get always populated with…

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Cutover-migration from SFB Onpremises to Teams with Enterprise Voice.

Hi all, I known that this one has been on all of the bloggers concerning Enterprise Voice and hybrids, but. There is some findings that I discovered during my migrations and I want to point them out. First, when You…

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Search-Mailbox and overcoming 10.000 item limit.

So You have a mailbox that is filled with spam, phishing or whatever emails that You dont want. I have to say that Microsoft’s new command (new-compliancesearchaction) seems nice, but doesnt work. new-compliancesearch and then start-compliancesearch find messages, but thats…

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Top 10 actions to secure your environment

Hi, Microsoft has a blog series about securing our environment. The first one came in December 2018. For now there is 8 parts released, hopefully part 9 is coming soon. When almost all functions are out in the open these…

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Get updates /w Email when EOP smtp ip-addresses change.

Using a ready script Get-Office365Endpoints.ps1 connect to https://endpoints.office.com. Filter that information with IPV4 and SMTP, then send it as txt-file thru Exchange Online using smtp.office365.com If the endpoint txt-file is found script is stopped. Also includes Aes-encryption for secure password storing….

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Connecting to SFB Online Powershell in Hybrid

Hi, Just a friendly reminder for all. If You have any kind of MS-Hybrid solution, You will always bind autodiscover, lyncdiscovery to Onpremises AD SCP. And then You have problems connecting to Cloud Based powershell instances. Well with this one…

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