Azure AD Connect stopped syncing to Azure AD. Looking in Azure AD Connect Synchronization Service Manager, the sync shows the status stopped-deletion-threshold-exceeded. In this article, you will learn why this is happening, and the solution for stopped deletion threshold exceeded.…
How to remove whitespace from CSV file? Before we explain that, why do we want to do that? The reason is that a PowerShell script is not reading the values from the CSV file because of the whitespace. Remove leading…
You want to upgrade Azure AD Connect to the latest version. Azure AD Connect will automatically update if there are important updates or critical fixes for the installed version. If there are no such issues, there are no updates pushed…
Azure AD Connect synchronization service isn't working for more than a week. When we run manual AD sync with PowerShell, it shows errors. Why is this happening, and why did this start to occur after implementing Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication…
It's best to use Conditional Access based MFA when you have Azure AD Premium P1 or P2. It will give you more control and flexibility when creating a policy. In this tenant, we do have per-user MFA enabled. We like…
We need to disable MFA for Office 365 users because they want to use another vendor for MFA. What is the fastest and safest way to disable Office 365 MFA? In this article, you will learn how to disable MFA…
We want to get a list of users with MFA status. By checking that, we are sure how many users have MFA enabled and which method they used. If you have not yet enabled MFA in your Microsoft 365/Azure tenant,…
You want to find on-premises IP addresses that use Exchange SMTP relay for sending mail. Why do you want to have that information? Most commonly, that's when you want to decommission an Exchange Server, and you like to confirm that…
How to enable SMTP logging in Exchange Server 2013/2016/2019? We want to check the send connector logging, but where do we find the logging path location? In this article, you will learn more about Exchange send connector logging. Introduction Protocol…
How to count Active Directory objects, and why do we need the AD objects count? In our example, we want to have the total count before we install and configure Azure AD Connect. That's because we need to know the…
