Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Changing an Office 365 User Principal Name with Powershell

It is very ease to change your login name in Office 365 if you have PowerShell for office 365 (x86 version, x64 Version) installed. First connect to Office 365 Connect-msolService Enter your Credentials, and then issue the next command: Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -NewUserPrincipalName [New Name] -UserPrincipalName [Old Name]

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O365: eventid 6208 – The server encryption keys could not be accessed.

Today I received a message from MSOnlineServices Team stating that in the last 24h they received no directory sync. So I connected to my server that is running the directory sync and found out that the “Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service”  and the “Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization Service” was not running. I tried to [...]

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EC2: Windows activation

Today I had a problem with a Amazon EC2 Windows instance. It said “this copy of windows is not genuine”. I tried to activate it, but it kept giving me errors. After some searching on the EC2 Forums I found this post which helped me out. In short: 1. Open “C:Program FilesAmazonEc2ConfigServiceSettingsDnsSuffixSettings.xml” 2. Remove the [...]

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BPOS: calendar meetings and send on behalf of permissions

I just noticed something. We have a mailbox which we use with multiple people. But this mailbox is also used for sending out mail from software and servers (via SMTP authentication). In order to use the mailing from software, we had to give the mailbox permissions to send out mail (send as or send on [...]

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