Office 365

Office 365 – Import Regional Configuration

During an Office 365 migration, it can be useful to set the regional configuration before the user logon the first time.

Specify the regional setting prevents the user to register the language and time zone again. Moreover, when you want to import PST files into the new office 365 Mailbox, default folders must have the same name. Otherwise you will get two folders for each default folder, like inbox, Sent, Drafts…

Regional configuration

Regional configuration

This modification can be done using the Office 365 Exchange cmdlet or we can use a powershell script. Let’s see how to do that.

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Active Directory 2012

Active Directory – Display Global Catalog information

Sometimes, you may need to check the information stored in the Active Directory Global Catalog. This can happen if you want to check that the replication between GC located in separate site is done.

We can easily view the information in GC with ADSI Edit:

ADSI Edit

ADSI Edit

Let’s see how to connect to a GC using ADSI Edit.

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Active Directory 2012

Active Directory – Get Last logon using Powershell

During an Active Directory migration, I needed to do an inventory of the computers to migrate. Because some computers do not exist anymore but not removed from Active Directory. I created a Powershell script based on the Last Logon Timestamp property.

CSV file from the script

CSV file from the script

This powershell script creates a CSV file with the computer name, the last logon property and the operating system. Some domains were based on Windows Server 2003 or 2008, I could not use Active Directory commandlets, so I used the LDAP Search.

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