Below are a few links I’ve used relating to Office 365’s Office Message Encryption (OME):
- OME – steps for purchase, Configuration, Branding and Use (Everything you need to know)
- Introducing OME
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Mulit-Factor Authentication
Below are a few links I’ve used relating to MFA (in Azure):
- Securing access to cloud services with Windows Azure MFA
- Windows Azure MFA for Office 365
Intune
Below are a few links I have used relating to Microsoft Intune:
- Use policies to manage computers and mobile devices with Microsoft Intune
Azure Active Directory (and AD Premium)
Below are a few links I have used relating to Microsoft Azure Active Directory, including DirSync (aka Azure Active Directory Synch, aka Azure AD Connect)
- Add in Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to Azure Active Directory
- Manage Azure AD
- Azure Active Directory Sync Services, Preview / Step by Step
- DirSync: Using Alternate Login IDs with Azure Active Directory
- Fix Duplicate DirSync Errors
- Azure AD Connect: One simple, fast, lightweight tool to connect AD and Azure AD
Office 365 “Backout Plan”
A co-worker shared a blog with me in dealing with back-out plans for Office 365 deployments. It was very informative and gave good/sound advise. Though I’m a firm believer and supporter of Microsoft’s Office 365 infrastructure and dependability, I’m also a ‘seasoned’ IT Engineer who knows that the putting all your eggs in one basket approach could have consequences.
If this thought has crossed your mind or if you’re just curious, I encourage you to read the article posted on Apr 7, 2015 by Tony Redmond in Tony Redmond’s Exchange Unwashed Blog
(excerpt)
What’s your back-out plan if an Office 365 deployment is unsuccessful?
The history of IT contains many failed projects. All manner of excuses and explanations are offered as to why failure came about. Poor technology, poor planning, bad execution, bugs, or just bad luck. For whatever reasons, we know that every IT project has some potential for failure. The question is what to do if failure should occur – or what’s your back-out plan? Few experienced CIOs would plunge into a major project without knowing what their Plan B is – so what is it if an Office 365 deployment goes bad?
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Unable to Activate DirSync
I came across a unique incident today while working in an Office 365 tenant. After getting things ready for Directory Synchronization internally and on the tenant side, the time had come to Turn on DirSync within the O365 Portal. I had downloaded the Azure Active Directory Synchronization install (DirSync), created the accounts needed for the install and was ready to go. Within the Portal, after clicking on Users/Active Users then selecting Active Directory Synchronization Set up, under Step #3 Activate Active Directory Synchronization I clicked Activate
This returned an error that it couldn’t be completed;
Sorry, we can’t process your request.
we’re investigating right now. Please try again later.
Support Information
Session ID:
d8f2325d-216c-4d65-b667-e0c6f94af7d0
Error code:
0
After waiting awhile, this did not ‘resolve itself’ and a support ticket was opened. After escalation and still no results, i found a good article (http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2015/04/office-365-unable-to-activate-directory-synchronization/) explaining the same problem -and a solution!
Logging into the portal through PowerShell and running a Get-MsolDomain, i saw that the tenant.mail.onmicrosoft.com domain was indeed in there.
I ran Remove-MsolDomain tenant.mail.onmicrosoft.com and verified it was gone, then went back and tried the Activate button again (in Step #3) -It works!
If anyone runs into this problem, I hope that if they haven’t come across the Perficient blog they see this one and are able to fix the issue quickly.
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OK, I saw this and thought, “COOL!”
It is certainly worth a mention!
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