Mike Shellenberger's blog

Recent Updates to Azure Active Directory – Part I, Enhanced Company Branding

Microsoft has been busy releasing awesome new functionality to their cloud-native, modern identity solution, Azure Active Directory. Azure AD is the identity provider at the heart of all Microsoft 365 tenants. Microsoft is continually investing in improving the security posture and capabilities of the platform as evident by the roadmap. Within the past few weeks,…
Intune Multiple Administrative Approval

The new Multi Admin Approval feature is currently in public preview and just showed up in my demo tenant, so I decided to play around with it to learn more. The concept of Multi Admin Approval (MAA) is to ensure a single administrator cannot push a change into production without another administrator’s explicit approval. The…
The new Intune Organizational Messages feature in public preview

Organizational Messages is a new feature of Microsoft Intune currently in community preview. While notifications are not new to Intune, the existing custom notifications solution has limitations of only applying to iOS, iPadOS and Android devices. Organizational Messages is targeted solely at Windows 11 enrolled endpoints and offers more features in terms of message templates…
Workspace ONE Provisioning Tool Error

I ran across a unique error today while testing a factory provisioning scenario with Workspace ONE Provisioning Tool. If you aren’t familiar with the tool or this specific scenario for deploying/enrolling devices, here’s a quick, high-level run down… One option Workspace ONE provides to enroll Windows 10/11 clients during the Out-of-box-experience (OOBE) is product provisioning.…
Copy Receive Connector Settings

I came across a particularly useful set of commands today while needing to enter a huge list of allowed IP’s for a receive connector in Exchange on multiple servers. This comes in particularly handy when needing to copy allowed IP addresses from one connector to another (usually on multiple servers) for the purpose of say…
Remove Old Email Addresses from Exchange 2010

If you’ve ever changed an email address policy in Exchange, you are aware that old addresses from previous policies are not deleted. This is by design and intentional but what if you made a mistake in your policy and need to remove hundreds of invalid addresses from accounts. For instance… you created a policy for…