A recorded session on object deletions. I have some bullet points and then I just speak what is in my mind... And remember that I have a cold and English is not my first language :)

Lync vNext - Official Info

From the link below:


In the first half of 2015, the next version of Lync will become Skype for Business with a new client experience, new server release and updates to the service in Office 365.  We believe that Skype for Business will again transform the way people communicate by giving organizations reach to hundreds of millions of Skype users outside the walls of their business.


The whole story here: http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/11/introducing-skype-business/

TreeUndelete

A long time ago I wrote a script that restored a whole tree of objects, basically it restored an OU and all objects that belonged to that OU. The first time I showed it was in a session at Microsoft TechDays in Örebro 2010. After that, it served me well over the years, even though it didn’t have error handling and other good stuff. But since I was the only one using it and knew how the script worked – it was ok J

This year I presented at a conference in Åre and showed the script once again. Since people liked it, I wanted to post it somewhere but didn’t feel comfortable since it lacked a lot of features. Getting the time to fix it was hard but my colleague and friend Simon Wåhlin (who has forgotten more about Powershell than I know today) did re-write it and has now published it.

If you want to see a cool script, check it out here: http://blog.simonw.se/restore-ou-tree-from-ad-recycle-bin-with-powershell/

 

AD ACL Scanner

A tool completly written in PowerShell.

A tool with GUI used to create reports of access control lists in Active Directory .

https://adaclscan.codeplex.com/

Features

It has the following features:

• View HTML reports of ACLs and save it to disk.
• Export ACLs on Active Directory objects in a CSV format.
• Connect and browse you default domain, schema , configuration or a naming context defined by distinguishedname.
• Browse naming context by clicking you way around, either by OU’s or all types of objects.
• Report only explicitly assigned ACLs.
• Report on OUs , OUs and Container Objects or all object types.
• Filter ACLs for a specific access type.. Where does “Deny” permission exists?
• Filter ACLs for a specific identity. Where does "Domain\Client Admins" have explicit access? Or use wildcards like "jdoe".
• Filter ACLs for permission on specific object. Where are permissions set on computer objects?
• Skip default permissions (defaultSecurityDescriptor) in report. Makes it easier to find custom permissions.
• Report owner of object.
• Compare previous results with the current configuration and see the differences by color scheme (Green=matching permissions, Yellow= new permissions, Red= missing permissions).
• Report when permissions were modified
• Can use AD replication metadata when comparing.
• Can convert a previously created CSV file to a HTML report.
• Effective rights, select a security principal and match it agains the permissions in AD.
• Color coded permissions based on criticality when using effective rights scan.
• List you domains and select one from the list.
• Get the size of the security descriptor (bytes).
• Rerporting on disabled inheritance .
• Get all inherited permissions in report.

System requirements

• Powershell 2.0 or above
• PowerShell using a single-threaded apartment

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Windows 10: Enterprise Features & Core Experience for Businesses

Attributes synchronized to Azure AD

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn764938.aspx

From above link:

--snip--
With Azure AD Sync, you can remove individual attributes from being synchronized.
Some services might not behave as expected when certain attributes are removed. The affected attributes are listed with their Active Directory LDAP name in the Install the AADSync Service.
There are also some attributes that might be listed with a different name in other interfaces. For example, the attribute l from Active Directory is tracked as city in Azure AD.
--snip--

Follow the link on top to see the full article, it is very useful.

MVP Award

Awarded MVP for the 17th year!


Dear Jimmy Andersson,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2014 Microsoft® MVP Award!