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Dec 06

Set up disaster recovery for Physical on-premises VMs to Azure using Backup and Site Recovery (OMS) services PART1

The Azure Site Recovery service contributes to your disaster recovery strategy by managing and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback of on-premises machines and Azure virtual machines (VMs). This tutorial shows you how to set up disaster recovery to an Azure for Azure VMs. In this tutorial, you learn how to... read more →

Dec 01

Step By Steps instruction how to disable creation of Office 365 Groups.

Microsoft added the ability within Azure AD PowerShell to control who can create Office 365 Groups. We are going to accomplish this with the following two steps: Disable the default ability for everyone to create a new Office 365 Group Create Azure AD group with a list of people who are... read more →

Nov 02

Migrate physical server to Azure VM using Disk2VHD tool and Add-AzureRmVhd command

This article will show you step by step instructions on how to migrate the single physical server to Azure VM. This is a possible scenario where you can use this step by step instructions. Small Business which has a single Small Business Server Single Web server sitting in a rack... read more →

Jun 18

How to migrate Microsoft Planner data from one tenant to another Office 365 tenant.

Overview of Microsoft Planner A Microsoft Planner is represented by a group of tasks that are assigned to different team members. Each task represents a piece of work or other activity that must be completed by a certain date and time. More information can be read here. https://products.office.com/en-us/business/task-management-software Microsoft Planner data... read more →

Jul 04

Step by Step Guide for Microsoft Azure StorSimple Virtual Array

In this blog, we are going to cover Azure Services called Microsoft Azure StorSimple Virtual Array Microsoft Azure StorSimple Virtual Array is hybrid file server solution where your local file server is extended in Azure Cloud It is a combination of local disk storage with extension to Azure storage. For... read more →

Jan 07

Change The Source Authority from Azure AD to local Active Directory WITH use of On-premises Exchange Server

Current Settings Initially, we have configured: Office 365 accounts/mailboxes already provisioned in Office 365/Exchange Online. Users IDs and passwords are setup in Office 365. Local Active Directory has all account objects. There is AD Connect Server locally Installed which points to an empty OU. There is no Exchange Server locally... read more →

Dec 14

Change the source of authority from Azure AD to on-premises Active Directory WITHOUT on-premises Exchange Server installed.

In this scenario presented here, we need to transfer the source of authority for a user account when that account was originally created by using Office 365 management tools. We need to transfer the source of authority so that the account can be managed through an on-premises Active Directory Domain... read more →

Mar 22

Migrating to Office 365-Exchange Online, Tips and Tricks from the Field

When deciding to migrate your existing infrastructure to Microsoft's Office 365 Exchange Online cloud, there are lots of considerations to think about from both technical and administrative perspectives. My blog will outline some of the scenarios you may face while successfully moving to office 365, using a Hybrid configuration to... read more →