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Sunday, March 25, 2012

recover an office 365 mailbox

recover an office 365 mailbox

this user accountant's mailbox got deleted online after a SBS2003 server migration

After two weeks of their MS office 365 online, Andy wants to see the deleted mailbox.

reover a deleted mailbox is easy on Office 365 as long as it has not been purged. so be quick.

to do that, login to portal.microsoftonline.com as admin
click on admin
exhange - manage
click on deleted mailboxes icon
select the mailbox you want to recover, click on recover
a form will pop out , fill out the form,
notice: you dont have to use the same username as the previous one
you dont have to pre-create a user on office 365

just fill out the form, give it a username/password, new email address, then you should have access to the deleted mailbox via portal.microsoftonline.com

I am quite lucky on this, as I just migrated their SBS 2003 server onto O365. I deleted this mailbox at the request of the customer both online and locally on the doomed sbs 2003 server. then the customer wanted to access this deleted mailbox. lucily the local box is already migrated online. it is much easier to re-attach the mailbox online

after a frastrating Friday, the one before the last one, I sorta figured out why I got cut-off by the PDC I was building

after a frastrating Friday, the one before the last one, I sorta figured out why I got cut-off by the PDC I was building

when I configure NAP - RAS , I clicked all the way to finish, by examing carefully while building server for another customer, Windows 2008 R2 with SP1 standard , in one of the wizard pages, there is a security settings pre-ticked which reads , only allow VPN packets on this interface, there is only 1 interface I am using, it is better to un-tick that.

it is interesting to note, if I tick the security settings , it will cut off ip connection after about 1 minute.

the filter rules may still be in effective even after I remove the NAP-RAS roles / features.

what a mine-trap microsoft has got for me....

paying the high emotional / physical prices for using microsoft

configure mobile devices for office 365

configure mobile devices for office 365

for the iphones, the mail server is

m.outlook.com

then the i-device will auto-detect which CAS server it will be using

for sumsung galaxy android phones the mail server is m.outlook.com

for the username it can be micheal@myboomer.com, if this doesnn't work try myboomer.com\michael@myboomer.com

patiecence is virtual ....

it may take a while before the phone cofigure itself....

change Sara's inbox rules, so her email wont be forwarded to another user. Office 365

change Sara's inbox rules, so her email wont be forwarded to another user. Office 365

after office 365 migration, inbox rules are migrated as well.

But the user wanted to stop that...

login to portal.microsoftonline.com as Sara (not admin)

organize email - inbox rules ... tick off the forwarding rule

of course you can also do that in outlook

btw outlook 2003 wont work with office 365




Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Installing an SMTP Relay on Windows Server 2008 R2 for Office 365

Installing an SMTP Relay on Windows Server 2008 R2 for Office 365

http://www.prescriptiveit.com/installing-smtp-relay-windows-server-2008-r2-office-365/

comment:

in IIS 6 smtp manager

in remote domain, you will need manually type in
*.com
*.com.au
*.co.nz

also check the relay settings

Friday, March 16, 2012

fig ... what is it?

fig ... what is it?

n. 无花果;无花果树;少许,一些;无价值的东西;服装 vt. 打扮;使马跑快 

what a day, finish someone's office 365 ....

what a day, finish someone's office 365 ....

this customer got migrated to MS Office 365 for a couple of week now.

after talking to the managers, I clicked the MS online ECP  - finish migration - ignore errors ....

hark .... hark ... hark....

then we got phone calls from the customer that their email disappeared ,  oh dear //// what a bad click make all this happen,

then TMR called his contact at Microsoft , ah... the contact at MS said their system is down.

well, it is not all that bad for a day .... dont blame myself too quick