Im building a monitoring solution for one of my customers and noticed that their RSS URL was the same as mine, and I found this a little weird since they are upgraded and I’m not.
Anyway as I researched this I found out that my RSS feed URL has been changed and that my monitoring was pointing at the old one.
NOT so good. So IF you rely on this RSS feed for monitoring of your Office 365 service. make sure that you are using the right one and that it hasn’t been changed without your notice.
You must have a remote domain configured as the target delivery domain for the cloud-based organization to complete the New Remote Mailbox wizard process.
You could also run the following PowerShell command that does the same thing as following the guide.
New-RemoteMailbox -Name ‘Test Room’ -UserPrincipalName ‘test.room@online.rf.se’ -FirstName ‘Test’ -LastName ‘Room’ -Initials ” -Room
If you now check the properties on this Room from under the On-Premises it will only show a few general tabs, this is because its a remote mailbox and not local, (thus it has to be managed from under the Exchange Online\Recipient Configuration. )
To see the new room in your Exchange Online\Recipient you have to first wait for or manually run Dirsync (Start-OnlineCoexistenceSync from your Dirsync server)
After Dirsync has run you will see the mailbox under your Exchange Online org and if you right click and select properties you will now see the full set of tabs for it.
Make sure to configure the properties for your room appropriately.
First delete it as you normally do, after you do that it will be moved to the “Deleted Accounts Store”
To see all the users and object that is in this store, log on to your tenant and click on users under management, then click the Deleted on top of the users page that opens.
You can also get a list from PowerShell by typing Get-MsolUser –ReturnDeletedUsers
From this page you can now restore users and rooms that are deleted.
But while the accounts are in this store they are still visible in the address list, and if its lets say a room that you just created and spelled wrong, so you removed it.
It will still show in the Rooms list and people will try to book it.
So how do we delete object from this list?
Well in the web portal there is only one option: to restore. So we need to look at PowerShell which is the only way to remove them as of now.
So start the
And type in
Remove-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName “Gf94d55cf329b43@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com” –RemoveFromRecycleBin
You can do a Get-MsolUser –ReturnDeletedUsers first and then just copy paste the UPN
Then just answer yes on the confirmation and the account is removed.
A note here that got me failing first is that the -RemoveFromRecycleBin is a new command and if you don’t see it when you tab for the autocomplete you have the old PowerShell module, and need to install the new one. (The newest module can always be found here http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/ff652560.aspx )
I’m personally involved in two different user groups with the base on linkedin.
Both groups are nearing 300 members and I think that’s a good number of the people representing the community in Sweden on these products.
Are you a member yet? If not you should definitely sign up (almost all of the talking is in Swedish though but that’s what translate.bing.com is for right) 
Office 365 Sweden – Microsoft Cloud User Group
FMI
It wasn’t that easy finding this, so if someone need information on FOPE and especially Exchange Hosted Encryption see these links.
Policy Rules – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715218.aspx
Exchange Hosted Email Encryption Service Subscription in FOPE – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange-hosted-email-encryption-service-subscription-in-fope.aspx
Understanding E-mail Encryption Settings in FOPE for EHE Subscribers – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715033.aspx
Create, Read, or Reply to an Encrypted Message – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715098.aspx
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To change the Retention policy for the deleted items from the default 30 days to lets say 90 days follow this guide
First connected with PowerShell to Exchange Online Service.
a. Install and configure Windows PowerShell.
b. Connect PowerShell to Exchange Online service.
To change the default RetentionPolicyTag for all users run.
Set-RetentionPolicyTag -Identity “Deleted Items” -AgeLimitForRetention 90
To verify all retention policy that are applied to a specific mailbox , please take the following steps.
c. Disable the current RPT applied to the Deleted Item Folders, by running the following cmdlet using PowerShell.
Set-RetentionPolicyTag “Deleted Items” -RetentionEnabled $false
d. Create a new retention policy tag for the default folder “Deleted Items” by using the following command:
New-RetentionPolicyTag “Exec -Default” -Type All -RetentionEnabled $true -AgeLimitForRetention 90 -RetentionAction DeleteandAllowRecovery
This example creates a retention policy tag for the default folder Deleted Items. When the tag is applied to a mailbox, items in the Deleted Items folder are deleted after 90 day.
After that, create a new retention policy or set up a current policy to link to the newly created retention policy tag.
e. Use PowerShell to apply the retention policy to Deleted Items
Set-Mailbox ” Deleted Items” -RetentionPolicy Execs
The following command applies the retention policy named Execs to Deleted Items:
I´we just came back from a one months holiday in Thailand. Or actually I worked for 2 weeks so I only have to use two of those five weeks paid holiday we get as Swedes. But I could stay for double that time, I could work from the beach and 5 star hotels.
And just some weeks before Thailand I were one and a half week in the states for the Microsoft MVP summit and all this time, my customers could reach me without a thought of playing phone tennis trying to find different phone numbers or OOF responses. And the best thing about it, I could work as I was at home in my office but with the view bellow.
This series of posts will tell you all about how to use Office 365, Lync and Enterprise voice when you are traveling international. And some other stuff to about hereworking –working from where you do it the best.
The thing is, thanks to Lync and Office 365 I was able to be as productive as I am when im in my Office. Or I would rather say that I got more done these weeks than if i´d be back home.
I would like to back that up with this article. Tell Your Boss: Unlimited Vacation Actually Increases Productivity.
Working remote or hereworking as I would like to call it, is something that is really easy now with the technology from Microsoft. I got all my documents and notebooks in the cloud stored in Office 365 and SharePoint online. I do note taking in OneNote and that notebook is automatically synced to my personal SharePoint site. Also available from my Windows Phone 7 or iPad. I do some syncing of files between all my devices with Skydrive. My email is in Exchange Online and i use both Lync Online and Lync on-premises.
So how did my setup look like.
I have a Asus Zenbook and a Samsung Series 7 slate with Windows 8 on as my computers (and a iPad2 that I only used 5-10 minutes thanks to the Slate), depending on where I were going to sit and work I did choose the computer that best fit the needs, All files and OneNote were synced via Office 365. I use VPN and Remote Desktop Connection manager and the connection file of course also syncs between the computers.
For my communication I have a unlocked HTC Titan, Plantronics Voyager Pro UC2 and a Jabra UC Voice 250 MS Lync Optimized USB headset.
Thats what I used for phone calls and meetings. Both my PC´s has built in cameras for the video meetings I had in Lync.
Well that’s it for the hardware. Now some tips on how to find a good office for some hours of work.
To start with, there is always coffee shops, Starbucks and they are generally great in the morning, I’m tiered and like to have a coffee to start the day, not so many noisy people in the mornings either, but around lunch and especially after when the moms invade with their kids its usually time to switch place. Plus it don’t feel so good to sit in one coffee shop for eight hours only ordering a coffee.
The great things with many of the coffee shops though is that they have electrical outlets where you can borrow some power, so when you see an outlet rush over there and use it cause you will need it for the afternoon.
After lunch I usually hit the hotels, and preferably the “high so” ones, 5 stars where a coffee is 3 times more expensive than where I had the morning shot. Normally theses places are gorgeous to and have great chairs to work from, but not all has electric…
Some hotels can start playing some music around 3-4pm and have some after work bar or something that could get loud, so its usually time to finish work at this time, or switch seating to some seat away from the people/music. Here is a collection of other tips when hereworking at coffee shops.
However the firsts weeks of my trip where spent in Isaan in the northeast part of Thailand, planting rise 
But with great 3G connection I even had some meetings from these fields in the middle of nowhere. And yes, with good quality of voice and video and I couldn’t hear that much latency either, when calling Sweden.
And I would like to end this post with a link to 9 Tips for Overcoming Jet Lag
The next part will be a bit more technical, showing what settings I did to make this possible.
This weekend is spent with a Office 365 and Exchange Online migration.
And I’m migrating from Kerio Connect to Exchange Online, since this is a IMAP migration I had to find a solution for the calendar and contacts since they are not migrated with the built in IMAP migration tools.
So I found someone in a forum that recommended Transend. And its been ok. I cant say its been a great migration experience but Transend does work if everything else works to 100% and well this is IT, things just never work 100%….
Anyway, I have 50 users on kiosk accounts, and after some digging I found out that Transend uses EWS when it upload the contacts, and guess what? Kiosk accounts don’t allow that, so there wont be any contacts or calendar for the Kiosk users if you are migrating from anything else than Exchange.
And I cant export them to PST and connect Outlook and migrate them that way.
Does anyone out there know of a smart way to migrate the calendar and contacts for kiosk users?
This is a great article with some troubleshooting steps and instructions on how to check your settings for the Lync instant messaging feature in Exchange Online OWA.
Some of these steps can also be applied to the on-premises versions since its basically the same PowerShell commands.
Run the following command:
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy | Format-Table Identity
The command returns a list of the Outlook Web App policies that you can change. In the list of results, notice that each mailbox plan has an associated Outlook Web App policy. This means that users who are assigned different mailbox plans can also have different Outlook Web App settings. For example, you can disable instant messaging for users assigned the GalDisabledMailboxPlan, and enable instant messaging for the default mailbox plan.
Run the following command:
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy OwaMailboxPolicy-DefaultMailboxPlan | Format-List *instant*
Using the wildcard character * returns all settings that contain the term “instant“.