What is TMA? Too Much Administration, or more accurately, too much admin access. Particularly in cloud accounts like Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, etc. Personal computer On your local computer, the solution is pretty straightforward. Just create a Local Administrator account that doesn’t have an email account and use “Run As Administrator” to do system tasks. …
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How to Restore Microsoft 365 Data from Azure Backup
Backing up and restoring data is a critical function that needs to be understood well. In this post, I’ve outlined the basic scenarios to get you started.
How to Backup Microsoft 365 Data to Azure Easily
Everyone knows you need to back up your data, right? Most folks do a fair job of backing up their local or “on-prem” data, either to an offline storage device or the cloud. But what about all the data you have in Microsoft 365? All of the emails, OneDrive files, Teams files, and SharePoint sites?…
Migrating to Exchange Online
Migrating from an on-premises Exchange 2016 server to Exchange Online can seem overwhelming, but doing it in ‘chunks’ makes it easier to plan and execute. Having done this a few times, I’ll show you how to overcome the tricky parts and avoid some ‘gotchas.’ Key Steps Prepare your environment Before beginning any migration, ensuring that…
Migrating to Intune – Mobile devices
Here we go on the next step on the M365 journey, and probably the first item to be done. Intune. Intune may seem like a small item, right? Certainly not as big as email or SharePoint right? Not so fast. Intune, is not just a Mobile device Manager, but rather a Modern Device Manager. This…
SOLVED! Unable to open files from SharePoint in the desktop Office app.
As part of our rollout of Office 365, we had a few users report that after the automated process to uninstall Office 2016 and install Office 365, they could not open some files from our SharePoint 2013 servers. The affected users could not use the “Open in App” feature. They would get the error “We’re…
Powershell Tuesday Quick Tip #7
Back at it again! This tip is a little snippet of code for building Dynamic distribution lists for something other than Organizational Units or Branch offices or the other examples. This one is to build a list of Managers. How does one differentiate managers in Active Directory? Title? no because at least in our organization,…