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Admin Guide – Completely remove (or restore) a mailbox or a room from #Office365

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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

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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

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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 )

Dirsync for x64 servers in #Office365

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Ok so put on your party hats and lets celebrate

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Because it looks like 64 bit support for Dirsync just sneaked out from the farm.

 

Upgrading from 32-bit directory synchronization tool

(From http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/sso/555.aspx )

To upgrade your 32-bit installation of the directory synchronization tool, you must first uninstall it, and then install the 64-bit tool on a new computer.

Although the 32-bit instance of the directory synchronization tool is removed, the overall state of the objects in your on-premises and cloud directories, respectively, is preserved. When you install and configure your 64-bit instance of the directory synchronization tool, it finds and matches objects in the cloud with on-premises objects. However, the 64-bit instance of the tool will not find and match objects in the cloud if on-premises object deletions occurred when the 32-bit instance of the directory synchronization tool was offline.

Therefore, you must minimize changes to your on-premises objects during the upgrade to the 64-bit instance of the directory synchronization tool.

  1. On the computer on which the Directory Synchronization tool is installed, open the Control Panel, select Add and Remove Programs, and then uninstall the Directory Synchronization tool.

    noteNote:

    If a synchronization session is in progress, a warning message appears when you try to remove the Directory Synchronization tool. If you receive this warning, wait until synchronization is complete, and then repeat this step.

  2. Install the 64-bit version of the Directory Synchronization tool installation file on another computer. To do this, sign in to the Office 365 portal, click Admin in the header, click Users under Management in the left pane, click Set up in the Users pane, select Windows 64-bit version, and then click the Download button for step 4: Install and configure the Directory Synchronization tool.
  3. On the last page of the installation program, select Start Configuration Wizard now, and then click Finish.
    The Microsoft Online Services Directory Configuration Wizard starts.