Setup LAPS on Administrator Workstation

When you install LAPS program on a computer where you want the ability to easily retrieve the password just select the Management Tools

Link Exchange Online Mailbox with Exchange On-premise

One of my customer have a hybrid exchange environment.

For a new user needs to create AD account and Mailbox on Exchange on-premise.

After creating mailbox and if is needed (depends on Company Police), user mailbox moving to the Exchange Online (Office 365).

It is important to be sure that the right routing address is set, user listed in Address Book and all works fine.

In this case some mailboxes was created wrong.

That means, that there was a AD user on-premise and mailbox was created directly in the Exchange Online.

 

 

 

When on-premise user tried to send message to user whose mailbox was created in Exchange Online directly, he got message:

 

Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell

Exchange Online PowerShell allows you to manage your Exchange Online settings from the command line.

1. On your local computer, open Windows PowerShell and run the following command.

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

In the Windows PowerShell Credential Request dialog box, type your account and password, and then click OK.

2. Run the following command.

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

3. Run the following command.

Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking

Windows Tips: How to make sure a downloaded .iso matches a hash value?

Install the Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier tool from 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11533

Then using fciv.exe with Command Prompt:

fciv.exe -sha1 filename.iso

PowerShell Script: Get AD Domain and Forest functional level

Simple script to show Active Directory domain and forest functional level, FSMO roles, all sites in the forest, Global Catalog servers.

Link for download
.\Get-ADInfo.ps1

Example of usage:

[PS].\Get-ADInfo.ps1