Author Archives: feadmin

How to find your Azure Active Directory Tenant ID

Here are two ways to find the GUID (also referred to as the TenantID) associated with your Azure Active Directory (AAD) instance. 1. Embedded in the URL in the Azure Portal Log into the Azure Portal. Select Active Directory from the left hand pane. Click on the Active Directory instance you are interested in (you… Read More »

Anyone remember Exchange and X.400?

You know you’re getting old when you come across a Usenet post you wrote almost 20 years ago. I came across this little memento while Googling for a much more recent item. Given the vintage of the post, I must have been referring to Exchange 4.0.  Exchange has come a long way since then, although… Read More »

Windows 10 keyboard stops working

Over the weekend I opened up my laptop to knuckle down to my chapter reviews for the upcoming update to the excellent Inside Office 365 for Exchange Professionals. If you don’t already have a copy I strongly recommend you make the investments. The E-book is detailed, well researched and written by those who really know… Read More »

Attribute-Based Active Directory Group Membership

Unfortunately Active Directory doesn’t yet provide dynamic security groups in the way that, for example, Exchange provides dynamic distribution groups.  Sometimes it is useful to maintain a group’s membership based on a specific attribute, or set of attributes.  Here’s a quick Powershell example that shows how to maintain the membership based on the presence of… Read More »

Power to the people!

You now have the ability to provide product feature requests and changes relating to Windows Server that go direct to the Product Group.  Not only that, but you can build a base of voter support to drive your suggestions across the line. windowsserver.uservoice.com I really like this concept as it removes the difficulties associated with getting your… Read More »

EOP Accepted Domain silently modified

It seems that a couple of weeks ago my standalone Exchange Online Protection (EOP) configuration was changed without me being involved. Basically, it looks like my default Accepted Domain was changed from type “Internal Relay” to “Authoritative” without my knowledge or consent. The first I knew of this was when I noticed my on-premises mail… Read More »