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The Administrative Units feature was first announced last month, over at the AD Team Blog. In a nutshell, it allows you to group WAAD objects in containers, called Administrative Units, so that you can later delegate access to specific person to perform administrative tasks on said users. This has been …
Continue readingFirst look at Administrative Units for Office 365 and WAAD management
Some of you might remember the issue we had with custom mailbox quotas back in the wave 14 version of Exchange Online. Namely, the UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults value was set to True for every mailbox and there wasn’t any way to change it to False. This in turn meant that any values …
Continue readingCleaning up the wave 14 remnants – the UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults ghost
Changing licenses in Office 365 is usually something you do upon provisioning new users, and when migrating between different SKUs. Most of the other time you dont even think about it. But what if you have taken a different approach in onboarding your users, by activating only subset of the Office …
Continue readingEnabling individual services with PowerShell
This post is provoked by a question over at the TechNet Exchange forums. I’ve always known that you can get the retention tag associated with particular mail item or folder using the EWS, and I have bookmarked some great articles on the subject (for example this one and this one), …
Continue readingGetting item/folder retention policy with EWS
Most companies have specific requirements when it comes to the mailboxes of their users, such as limiting the size of a mailbox. My employer for example had 200MB ones until last year, and upped them to 2GB. With Exchange Online’s whooping 50 GB quota, it’s no wonder that almost everyone …
Continue readingPreconfigured mailbox settings in Exchange Online