Technology

  • Comparing the Free Forever Tiers in Azure, GCP, AWS, and OCI…and the winner is OCI!

    Understanding the perpetual free offerings of major cloud providers The cloud computing landscape is dominated by a few key players, each offering a range of services to cater to diverse needs. Among these giants, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) stand out. One of the most…

  • Set Microsoft Edge as the default browser via GPO

    You can set Microsoft Edge as the default browser on domain-joined devices by configuring the Set a default associations configuration file via group policy. Turning this group policy on requires you to create and store a default associations configuration file in XML format. This file is stored locally or on a network share. Copy below XML content…

  • Azure Charts

    https://azurecharts.com/ This site needs a special mention, quick and easy to keep up and learn on the azure offerings.

  • Restrict Users From Creating New Teams in Microsoft Teams

    If you have recently adopted the usage for Microsoft Teams, managing Teams within Teams becomes a toungue twister in itself, If you’re concerned about users creating teams or groups that don’t comply with your business standards, perhaps you want this to be delegated to set of mindful power users group. Create a Group – This…

  • Microsoft Admin Portals

    Microsoft 365 Admin Portals Portal Name URL Microsoft 365 Admin Portal https://admin.microsoft.com/  Microsoft 365 Compliance https://compliance.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Console https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Console (old) https://devicemanagement.portal.azure.com/ Exchange Admin Center (new) https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/ Exchange Admin Center (old) https://outlook.office365.com/ecp/ Microsoft Teams Admin Center https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/  SharePoint Admin Center https://admin.microsoft.com/sharepoint OneDrive Admin Center https://admin.onedrive.com/ Apps Admin Center…

  • Block File Sharing in Teams

    COVID-19 has led many IT Departments scrambling to roll out some form of conference/ collaboration tool as many had to work remotely. This has affected organizations that where were not agile or cloud agnostic by not adopting to modern workplace earlier on. Microsoft Teams runs on SharePoint Online, OneDrive in its core, organizations running on-premises…

  • Licenses could not be assigned or removed due to an error -Azure AD group based licenses

    Scenario: Group based licensing is enabled in Azure AD. Exchange online is not assigned through the group based licensed. Newly added users to the group fail to get licenses assigned via the group. Reprocessing the group based license throws error: Licenses could not be assigned or removed due to an error Solution: A recent service…

  • Kill all active user sessions in any Azure AD/ Office 365 application

    If you are are ever in a situation where you have to deal with a compromised O365 account or situation similar to mine where users were assigned Onedrive/SPO license and you want to revoke them and stop users from using them immediately, the below cmdlet is much helpful. If you are dealing with a large…

  • Add Fullmailbox Permission in PowerShell using a CSV file

    Create a CSV with following fields and save it in a temp folder UserMailbox and User copy the below and save as .ps1 file in the same temp folder e.g C:\temp $csv = Import-csv -path “C:\temp\fullaccess.csv” foreach($User in $csv) { Add-MailboxPermission -Identity $user.UserMailbox -User $user.User -AccessRights FullAccess -InheritanceType All }   Run the script to apply…

  • Force a sync from Azure AD Connect to Office 365

    AAD sync runs every 30 minutes, we are several situations where you cant wait 30 minutes for a change to sync across, you still want to force a sync. To do so, on the server which has AAD Connect installed and type the following to import the AAD Connect PowerShell module: Import-Module ADSync You check the…