Tag Archives: office365

Publishing an On-Premise AD Account to Office365

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Jason

When you first start looking at Office365 there’s a real need to get user accounts into the Cloud so you and your colleagues can start poking about, and while there are quite a few decent tools for getting bulk users … Continue reading →

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Certificate Permissions

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Jason

There’s a few instances where I’ve needed to install certificates and grant nominated accounts rights to open them (including the private key) – mainly for Microsoft cloud solutions for Live@Edu and Office365. This relies on the winhttpcertcfg tool (download here) … Continue reading →

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Use PowerShell to make results intelligible

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Jason

The get-msoluser cmdlet is there for retrieving information about the user accounts within an Office365 tenancy – but it can be a little verbose – which is where the rest of PowerShell kicks into gear and through the magic of … Continue reading →

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Nested Objects in Powershell

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Jason

I’m currently working on automating some activities for an Office365 deployment, and am making use of powershell cmdlets driven through c# – this works a treat most of the time, and aside from a few oddities (usually down to an … Continue reading →

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Proxy This!

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Jason

As ever, I’m in a new environment with a new set of firewall and proxy restrictions and seeing as I’m working on an Office365 deployment, powershell is pretty much an essential piece of the puzzle. From my laptop, I’ve got … Continue reading →

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