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Today I made the mistake of downloading and attempting to run the Office 365 Hybrid Deployment Wizard by using Firefox. When you do, the app starts to launch and the fails. When you click on the Details button to open the log file, you see this under the error summary: Deployment and application do not have matching security zones. Download the app from within IE and no problems. Link to download the wizard: https://aka.ms/HybridWizard UPDATE: Also worth noting that a similar error with the wizard not running occurs if the .application file extension is not associated with Internet Explorer. https://paulrobichaux.com/2017/06/30/office-365-hybrid-configuration-wizard-wont-launch/ 

When planning an Office 365 implementation, it is best practice to start by assuming that UPN for signing in to Office 365 should match the user email address. If you don't configure it this way, then users have two separate items (their UPN for signing in and their email address) that look very similar. In many cases users are confused by the similarity. If you are synchronizing  your on-premises Active Directory with Office 365 (in most cases you do) then you need to set the UPN for the on-premises user accounts with the correct UPN. The UPN from on-premises user accounts is synchronized to Office 365 to create the ID for signing in. Most organizations are not using the UPN on user accounts for authentication on-premises. The option has been there since Windows 2000, but most organizations still use the domainname\username format for authentication. However, you need to verify if any user accounts are using the UPN for authentication before making this change. At minimum, you sho

When managing email addresses and domains in Exchange Server, old email addresses are never removed automatically. This is good because it ensures that email addresses on a mailbox are never accidentally lost. However, you may want to clean up old domains or address formats that are no longer in use. Some common scenarios where you might want to remove an old domain: An SMB deployment of Exchange Server where a .local domain was added as the first domain for email addresses. Old GroupWise addresses are left in place from an older migration. Obsolete domain left over from a company merger many years ago I often find that obsolete domains are identified when I run IDFix as part of preparing to migrate to Office 365. To simplify the removal of obsolete domains, I have created the following script. A few things to note: You need to set $RemovePattern to identify the domain to be removed. Any email addresses matching this pattern will be removed from proxyAddresses attribute in Active Direc

I needed to update all UPNs in a domain today. It was pretty quick to figure out, but here is one line to take care of it for you. Get-ADUser -Filter * | ForEach-Object { Set-ADUser $_ -UserPrincipalName ($_.UserPrincipalName).Replace("OldDomain","NewDomain")} Remember to make the pattern in the OldDomain unique enough that you don't accidentally change things you don't intend to. For example, if you are changing from a .local domain in the UPN to a .com, make sure that you replace ".local" and not "local" on the off chance one of the user IDs includes "local" in the name. If there are any user accounts without a UPN, then an error is generated for those accounts. My domain had 4 accounts without a UPN: krbtgt - default account used for kerberos IWAM_ServerName - Old IIS account from Windows 2003 IUSR_ServerName - Old IIS account from Windows 2003 support_XXXXXXX - Used by Help and Support service

I ran into a mildly annoying feature when adding items to an array list when using PowerShell today. An array list is an expandable array of items with better performance than a normal array when working with large data sets. Each time I added an item to the array list, it echoed back the index number of the list item. When I added the first item in the list, the number 0 was displayed on the screen. Adding a second item would echo back the number 1. For example: $proxylist.add($a) 0 I would prefer my script to be silent when running except when there is data that I want to display. However, there is no option obviously available for that purpose. Instead, you need to redirect the output to $null. There are a few ways to do this and any one will work: $proxylist.add($a) > $null $proxylist.add($a) | Out-Null [void]$proxylist.add($a)

Just ran into an issue on Dell servers using the Dell Open Manage System Administrator software. This software runs on the server to let you see hardware details such as failed components and RAID configuration. My first issue was when running the System Administrator icon from the desktop. This icon opens up and web page to access System Administrator. However, when Internet Explorer was launched, it came up with the error: This page can't be displayed So, I did the standard stuff: restart services verify DNS resolution verify port 1311 is not blocked by firewalls and is listening Everything looked good, but it wasn't working. One person on a discussion group indicated that they found it was because the older versions of System Administrator used older encryption algorithms for TLS and so the browser was blocking connectivity. I attempted to resolve it first by updating the existing installation of Server Administrator. This changed the problem to hanging while trying to acces