Brian Fahrenholtz's Blog





29th March 2012

SCSM2012: The data warehouse registration failed

If you get the error "The data warehouse registration failed", when you try to register Service Manager with a Service Manager Data Warehouse server, it’s maybe caused by the data and time formats settings for the service account on the Data Warehouse Management Server. Go to the Data Warehouse Management Server and log on with [...]

Category: Install, Service Manager  |  Comment

28th October 2011

Change TimeZone on mailboxes

Do you have one or more mailboxes running in a wrong TimeZone on your Office 365 or Exchange environment? Don’t worry it is easy to fix, and I will show you how do to it. Follow this blog post and you will learn how to see current TimeZone on a mailbox, how to change it, and how to changes TimeZone on all mailboxes.

Category: Cloud Services, Exchange, Office 365  |  1 Comment

27th October 2011

Add and remove access permissions on mailboxes on Office 365

There will be times where you want to give an administrator or another user access to another user’s mailbox. This blog post will describe how to add and remove access permissions on one or more mailboxes with PowerShell.

Category: Cloud Services, Office 365  |  1 Comment

27th October 2011

What’s new in Windows Intune October 2011 release

The October 2011 release of Windows Intune is here, and that means new features and functionalities. I will with this blog post give you a short descriptions of the top features.

Category: Cloud Services, Windows Intune  |  Comment

26th October 2011

Links to Office 365 guides and references

I just want to share the links I have being used and is using in my work with Office 365. The list will be updated regularly.

Category: Cloud Services, Office 365  |  Comment

26th October 2011

Enable users to view calendar information of Room mailboxes

On Exchange Online Room mailboxes do not share calendar information by default. You will only be able to see if the Room is busy or not. This blog describe how you enable the Room’s calendar to show more information to all users.

Category: Cloud Services, Office 365  |  Comment

20th October 2011

Adding Exchange attributes to AD in an Office 365 with SSO environment

If you running Office 365 with Single Sign-on in a newly created Active Directory domain without an on-premise Exchange installation, you will missing the Exchange attributes. The Exchange attributes enable you to manage the exchange parameters on distribution list and mail enabled users through the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.

Category: Cloud Services, Office 365  |  Comment

25th September 2011

Managing Office 365 with PowerShell

Using PowerShell is a great way to administering your Office 365 configuration. This blog will describe what you need to get started.

Category: Cloud Services  |  Comment

3rd May 2011

Windows Intune Client Agent components

When you install Windows Intune Client Agent on your computers, you will see some new programs and services running on your client installations.

Category: Cloud Services, Windows Intune  |  1 Comment

27th January 2011

Add AD user accounts to the SBS Console

When you create AD user accounts through Active Directory Users and Computers, they don’t appear in the SBS Console. And therefore it is not possible to manage them from the Console. Run this VB script to add user accounts to the SBS console. Be sure to define the OU location for your users before running [...]

Category: Scripting, VBScript  |  3 Comments