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Moving to a new system has never been easy. In the last few years our technology and organizations have changed. This has fostered new collaboration, both in our tech, and how we operate as companies. As a Migration Technologist, this has created a big problem; Staged Migrations just don’t seem like an option anymore. In […]
Although solutions exist to migrate mailbox permissions, we have to decide what permissions should move rather than just moving them over. In this post, I will cover the common considerations when deciding what mailbox permissions to migrate in MAD projects. First, let’s review the three kinds of Exchange Mailbox Permissions: Full Mailbox Permissions Assigned by […]
This is the final part of a 3-part series on OneDrive For Business Sharing Policies, and their impacts to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures (MAD). Review In Part 1, we covered How To View OneDrive For Business Sharing Polices In PowerShell & The Admin Center. This post can be found here: https://madmike.net/how-to-view-one-drive-for-business-sharing-polices-in-powershell-the-admin-center/ In Part 2, we […]
This is part 2 of a 3-part series on OneDrive For Business Sharing Policies and their impacts to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures. In Part 1, we covered How To View OneDrive For Business Sharing Polices In PowerShell & The Admin Center. This post can be found here: https://madmike.net/how-to-view-one-drive-for-business-sharing-polices-in-powershell-the-admin-center/ In this part we will show how […]
When a user is licensed for OneDrive for Business, this does not create the backend SharePoint site for them. Instead One Drive is provisioned on the first use. This makes a lot of sense as not all users will use OneDrive, and an automatic setup would leave a lot of empty sites around. In other […]
This will be a 3-part series on One Drive For Business Sharing Policies and their impacts to Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures. In Part 1, this article, we will cover how to view One Drive For Business Sharing polices In PowerShell & The Admin Center In Part 2, we will show how to change One Drive […]
Breaking up is hard to do! A Divestiture is very different from a Merger or Acquisition. For organizations that do this kind of work regularly, a Divestiture can throw them for a loop and highly underestimate the effort needed to complete the project. The main issue is how to separate data, and, at the root […]
We certainly are living in interesting times. I write this post in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are seeing organizations rapidly adopting technology to keep operating remotely. In this rush, firms are making some very quick decisions and are often overlooking their normal processes. I hate tool sprawl. In MAD projects, wherever we […]
As a Microsoft Exchange Administrator, Bad Items in mailbox migrations have always been a pain. It is upsetting to see a large number of bad items in migrations because no one likes the idea of data loss. As outlined in the document called “Track and Prevent Data Loss”, in January 2020, Microsoft rolled out an […]
In this BLOG post I am going to cover some great tips to help you look, and sound, your best while on conference calls when working at home. I have done several sessions to college students on preparing for their first job interview, and a lot of this content applies here. In our remote world, […]