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Invaluable Tool for Testing Connectivity

Ed Alexander — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:03:23 +0000

Microsoft has been slowly expanding functionality for cloud based test utility for both on-premise and cloud based Exchange. Test include single sign-on, RPC over HTTP (Outlook Anywhere), activesync, autodiscover and more. If you are engaged in an Exchange cloud migration I highly suggest taking a look. https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

Basic PowerShell script for Office365

Ed Alexander — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:02:47 +0000

PowerShell scripting for Office365 Administration and deployment is pretty powerful. Essentially, all scripts will start the same group of lines that provide for establishing a session and retrieving the Office365 commands. Hope this helps provide a simple starting point. Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted Y $cred = Get-Credential $O365 = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication …

Office 365 and ADFS 2.0 Walkthrough

Ed Alexander — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:10:35 +0000

Tim Harrington posted a nice walkthrough for setting up and configuring ADFS 2.0 for Office365 single sign-on. I recommend this as a good consolidated source well worth reading prior to installation. http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/tharrington/archive/2011/04/01/active-directory-federation-services-adfs-2-0-with-office-365-part-1-–-planning.aspx http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/tharrington/archive/2011/04/11/active-directory-federation-services-adfs-2-0-with-office-365-part-2-%E2%80%93-configuring.aspx

Windows Phone 7 Mango Game Released

Ed Alexander — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:56:05 +0000

We have just released a Sudoku game for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango. “Stay Sharp Sudoku” was translated from an earlier Silverlight design exercise in order to gain familiarity with Windows Phone 7 Mango. The application is available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Office365 PowerShell Script to Block Incoming Email from Specified Domain

Ed Alexander — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:17:16 +0000

BPOS allowed a simple UI method to maintain a block list for incoming email to your hosted Exchange service. Office365 has no such simplified implementation and instead offers full access to create transport rules in Exchange. The rules can be created either through the web management UI or via PowerShell as below: Save the following …