Dear SysAdmin, This is a simple appreciation post to all the system administrators in the education industry that make learning happen each and every day. Especially in these unprecedented times. You are so important and so valued. You are true heroes. Sometimes your work might go unnoticed, and sometimes that’s a really good thing. In…
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What’s the skinny? Welcome back ContosoEDU world! We all know that the world for our digital accounts has changed drastically since the old days of Windows NT. With the ever growing reliance on cloud based services (SaaS being a huge one) we now more than ever need to focus on protecting our identities. Once of…
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Introduction In May 2020, Microsoft introduced the ability to download attendance reports for meetings in Microsoft Teams. Today you can only do this once enabled on a meeting policy per user, via PowerShell, so an IT admin must be the one to perform this action. This post will be updated once other methods are realized.…
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Want to have Azure AD provision users and groups into G Suite? No longer want to have a reliance on Google’s on-premises sync tool? Well come on in and learn how to do just that!
Have you used the message center in M365 before? Don’t know what that is? Read this then it might just help you out a bit!
Update 5/13/20: Microsoft has recently updated the name of “Office 365 ProPlus” to “Microsoft 365 Apps”. The majority of this post has been updated to reflect those changes. In addition the OSD section has been updated and a new section called “DBA Clean Up”. Introduction Hi there! It’s been a while! The last blog I…
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Learn how to apply a specific messaging policy to just students using some PowerShell magic!
This is a quick and dirty post with some pre-canned information I send to my customers when the conversation of “how do I manage licensing” comes up. I’ll come back and add more context but for now this should be a great starting point for most any EDU organization!
Learn how to bring two worlds closer together by using Azure AD as your IDP for G Suite! Want to see how and learn why do it? Read on.
In the ever changing world of technology it can be hard to keep up. Enterprise and even SMB organizations have time and resources, in most cases, to research and implement new technologies to better their business and customers. But in Education that’s not always the case. Microsoft has some amazing documentation, it’s better than previous…
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