SET USERS AD HOME DIRECTORIES READ ONLY Lets assume you are going to do a migration for users home drives to O365 One Drive for business. Par t of your migration you plan to lift user data to cloud then you need to configure users local network home directorates read only for some time. The idea is to make sure after data migration, users can no longer manipulate their local network home directories. Reason you want to frustrate them to move away using network drives and start using ODFB for day-to-day work load. The script I wrote is just going to do that. While user has read on ..read more

  Simplifying getting a summary for your scripts. I will assume you are writing script often and you want to be more organized with your scripts. When writing script it is always a good idea to make sure you have enough information about your code. Following example will demonstrate same end goal. in the example given below, when writing script within the scripts following notation is used. #(1)_.Adding Vars #(2)_.Check folder existence #(3)_.Entering loop  #(4)_.Setting counter  after making sure script is built correctly , you can run below function to grab all lines includes ..read more

  KFM ( Known Folder Move) what you need to know when it fails.   If you have deployed KFM (Known Folder Move) in your environment and user GPO to force it down to user computer , you did enabled at the least below reg keys via your GPO, or add them manually via SCCM or PS script.   KFM , required and recommended GPO settings Registry Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry Path SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive Value Name KFMBlockOptIn Value Type REG_DWORD Enabled Value 1 Disabled Value 0 KFMSilentOptIn ..read more

Task for granting O365 migrates user full mailbox permissions must be done with Exchange on-premises PowerShell. For purpose of this short article we will be adding simple steps to get this task taken care of and cmdlet goes with it. Following scenario is not supported https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/permissions The following permissions or capabilities aren't supported: Send-As Lets a user send mail as though it appears to be coming from another user's mailbox. Auto-mapping Enables Outlook, when it starts, to automatically open any mailboxes that a user has been granted ..read more