In Office 365 we have the option to give some of our users an administrative role, but what role(s) can we give them? This post will be an overview of the available roles within the portal and PowerShell. What roles do we have in the portal? Within the portal we have the following roles available Global administrator Billing administrator Exchange administrator Password administrator Skype for Business administrator Service administrator SharePoint administrator User management administrator Microsoft did a great job outlining what each of these roles can do.

On May 28th 2016 I visited SharePoint Saturday in Paris (http://www.spsevents.org/city/Paris/Paris2016/). The event was held in the Montparnasse Tower in the center of Paris on the 40th floor. We had an amazing view from that height. This article contains my notes of the day. Start of the day We had some trouble getting in the building because of some regulations of the building owner, but when we were all registered we could go all the way up to the 40th floor.

In Office 365 you have the option to add a partner to your Office 365 tenant. In this article I explain what the partner sees and what can they do. What is this option about? In your Office 365 portal you see ‘Partner relationships’, here you will find a list of Microsoft Partners that have delegated access to your tenant. The Microsoft partner can ask for delegated access to your tenant, you cannot invite the partner yourself.

We are rolling out Office 365 at my current assignment. Within this project we want to automate as much as possible to avoid human error and reoccurring tasks. We already used a lot of PowerShell for our current SharePoint farm, so the most obvious thing was to look at PowerShell for automating those tasks. In this article I will take you with me on the journey that we took. Why Azure Automation We choose Azure Automation for a few reasons.

Some time back we updated Azure AD Connect at a customer to the latest version. The update itself was an easy one, just next, next finish like they described on the Azure site. But what we found is that the sync engine itself was completely different. The previous version had a Windows timer job as it schedule and ran every 3 hour. You also where able to run that command (DirSyncClientCmd) with a parameter (initial or delta) to run a new or delta sync.

I’m currently working in a large enterprise where we have a dedicated team of SharePoint administrators. This team is responsible for the current on-premises SharePoint environment. The way we give this team control over the whole environment is with the option ‘User Policy’ within the web application. Here we give the whole team administrator rights for the web application. This way we do not have to assign rights to every single site collection.

From the beginning of SharePoint Online we have the option to share a site or document with an external user. When you use this feature the recipient need to have a Microsoft Account to login your SharePoint environment. Because this can be very confusion for the user, Microsoft is working on a Business 2 Business connection within Azure AD. With this connection you can share that same site or document with a user from another Azure AD tenant.

This weekend we did a migration between 2 tenant and with this migration we noticed that the URL for OneDrive 4 Business was changed on the old tenant after we changed the domain name for all the users. This means when you change the UPN of a user not only the primary email address is changed but also the user profile in SharePoint Online. I did a test with another tenant to see how long it takes for the URL to change; this gives an indication about the profile update time.

This week I did my first presentation for DIWUG witch was a great success. The presentation can be viewed below. 20160128 - Diwug Azure AD en SharePoint (Online), en hoe doe je dat precies—Arjan Cornelissen

Last weekend I moved my blog from SharePoint Online public site to WordPress. The reason for this move is that Microsoft abandoned the SharePoint Online public site. For those who have a public site can use it at least until March 9 2017 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3027254). So the first thing for me was where to host this? There are multiple options here: WordPress.org Self-hosting on my NAS at home Hosting in a VM on Azure Hosting on Azure website (default template) Hosting on Azure website with MySQL in a Docker Linux VM I choice to host this on Azure website with a MySQL server in a Docker Linux VM.