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05 June, 2026

MFA - Everywhere. All the time. For everyone.

This is a hill I will die on.

03 June, 2026

Entra App Registrations, Enterprise Apps and Service Principals

A practical engineering guide to owners, assignment, consent, credentials and risk

07 May, 2026

From valve radios to artificial intelligence and self driving cars!

Yesterday we had an all company meeting and I thought it would be cool to kick it off with a quiz to keep everyone ...

27 March, 2026

Restore Exchange Online Archive Mailbox to Primary Mailbox

You’d think this would be easy and not an uncommon request. There are genuine use cases for restoring an Exchange ...

23 March, 2026

Fundamental Differences Between Google Workspace and Microsoft Tenant: A Migration Perspective – Part 2

Managing Google to Microsoft Migration with GAM7 and PowerShell

16 March, 2026

Manage and restore deleted and inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online

When a user leaves an organisation in Microsoft 365, administrators have several options for how to handle the user’s ...

11 March, 2026

Providing expert migration services during Mergers & Acquisitions

Talk to our experts to plan your migration strategy

23 January, 2026

Streamlining Workflows: Using Power Automate with SharePoint and Microsoft Teams

Need help streamlining your workflows? Talk to us.

13 January, 2026

Manually Copy, Move or Export OneNote

In some circumstance during a tenant-to-tenant migrations, we have occasionally seen OneNote that don’t migrate ...

15 September, 2025

Microsoft 365 Tenant Hardening: The No-Nonsense Basics

Need to strengthen your security posture? Contact us.

31 July, 2025

Streamline Microsoft 365 Workflows with Power Automate for SharePoint and Teams

Power Automate, Microsoft’s workflow automation tool, is a game-changer for boosting productivity across Microsoft 365 ...

03 July, 2025

Decommission Binary Tree DirSync and Coexistence – Part 2

Decommission DirSync New Users Depending on how your new joiner process is structured, you are most likely initiating ...

03 July, 2025

Decommission Binary Tree DirSync and Coexistence – Part 3

Option 3 – HCL Directory Sync For AD to Domino, if you are brave, you could battle your way through HCL Domino ...

03 July, 2025

Decommission Binary Tree DirSync and Coexistence - Part 1

Now is the time Now would be a good time to bite the bullet and remove coexistence from your environment. Here we will ...

03 July, 2025

Failure to login into Teams on mobile after a tenant to tenant migration

Recently we have seen some end users that have not been able to log back in to Microsoft Teams on their mobile devices ...

11 February, 2025

Your computer's Trusted Platform Module has malfunctioned - error code 800900B

Something went wrong… don’t we all love to see that message!

11 December, 2024

Nero Blanco achieves G-Cloud 14 accreditation

Delivering trusted cloud migration and IT services through the latest G-Cloud framework We are proud to announce that ...

09 May, 2024

There was a problem connecting to OneDrive Error Code: 0x8004e4d0

Sometimes during our tenant to tenant migrations we come across this issue for OneDrive migrations in the target tenant ...

26 March, 2024

Google to Microsoft 365 Migrations – Part 2

Addressing common issues with Google to Microsoft 365 migrations The migration discovery phase Like all migration ...

14 March, 2024

Google to Microsoft 365 Migrations - Part 1

Addressing common issues with Google to Microsoft 365 migrations With experience migrating close to a million seats, ...

22 February, 2024

Microsoft Teams for Education Migrations

At Nero Blanco, we specialise in conducting Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations. With experience migrating close ...

20 February, 2024

Working with the on-premises AD Recycle Bin

Generally in day to day identity management you would not often need to resort to the Active Directory Recycle Bin, but ...

13 February, 2024

Outlook Rules not running automatically

Recently we received a support request from a client regarding Outlook Rules for a shared mailbox not running ...

30 June, 2022

Privileged Access groups (Preview)

From Microsoft: What’s the difference between Privileged Access groups and role-assignable groups – Azure AD – ...

01 July, 2021

Microsoft Teams Meetings that Require Registration

Sounds like an awesome new feature right? Well it is, kind of. Just isn’t well documented or obvious in the GUI how to ...

07 June, 2021

Fixing Azure AD Join for Windows 10 Provisioning Package Error 0xCAA2000C

We are working with Declaration Software on their Windows 10 Workstation Migration Agent. The Workstation Migration ...

28 May, 2021

Remove Teams Info from Calendar Invite - Don't Host Online

Following on from this post:

09 March, 2021

Inherited Full Access to Mailbox via pass-thru Delegation- Nero Blanco

My colleague Twan had an interesting case recently. A user logged into their Outlook and a saw an additional mailbox ...

01 March, 2021

Managing Personal Contacts on iOS

This matter has arisen due in part to some work that we are doing with a client where it is prohibited to synchronize ...

29 September, 2020

Teams Coexistence Pitfalls - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Chances are if you have been using Teams for long enough you have seen this in a chat.

22 June, 2020

Windows Information Protection and Folder Redirection - 0x807c0008

We are rolling out Windows Information Protection (WIP) for one of our clients. WIP will be deployed for MAM and MDM ...

19 May, 2020

Accessing Shared Mailboxes - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Previously I wrote a blog about the ins and outs of connecting a shared mailbox and the benefits of connecting to it in ...

19 May, 2020

Intune -Troubleshooting and Learnings

We are rolling out Intune Compliance and Configuration Policies. MDM (Enrolled) for corporate devices and MAM ...

15 May, 2020

Guest Account conflicts with Exchange Online

Guest Accounts not receiving email notifications

13 May, 2020

Whiteboard in Office 365 and Teams

We were asked to investigate an issue for a client today where the Whiteboard app wasn’t available to Teams users in a ...

06 May, 2020

OneDrive for Business Reconfiguration

Office 365 – Tenant to Tenant Migrations

03 April, 2020

Microsoft Office 365 Security Health Check

A New Way of Working In this current uncertain global climate workers are needing to work remotely. The uptake of ...

03 April, 2020

Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams Logon

This is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut scenario to get you back up and running on teams. Where we have had to ...

19 March, 2020

Leaving a Team outside your Organization

Ever had that situation where you collaborate with an external organization and that project/collaboration comes to its ...

22 January, 2020

Uninstall Microsoft Teams cleanly - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Teams Cache Cleaner Try this one last time…

18 December, 2019

Renamed Channels in Teams - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Overview In case you hadn’t noticed, we here at Nero Blanco do a lot of migrations. We are fully immersed in ...

02 December, 2019

Reconfiguring the OneDrive for Business Desktop Application

T2T Migrations – Relinking OneDrive for Business In short, the user must unlink their OneDrive for Business client and ...

22 November, 2019

When to cut over DNS MX record in a Migration

And the importance of accurate Directory Synchronisation When is the right time to cut over your MX in a Migration? ...

06 November, 2019

Where do Default Teams Emails Go?

Where does the default Teams email go?

21 August, 2019

Outlook Meetings embedded Teams URLs? -Nero Blanco

When you create a meeting in Outlook and choose a Microsoft Teams meeting from the ribbon, the body of the meeting is ...

13 June, 2019

Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migrations

Given the growth of Microsoft Office 365, tenant-to-tenant (T2T) migrations were inevitable and have become more and ...

30 January, 2019

Create Azure VM from SysPrep image hardened by GPO

Recently we needed to extend our Migration Farm from 10 workers machines, to 20. As we have these workers machines ...

02 October, 2018

Merging Two Office 365 Mailboxes - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

There are many reasons why you may want to do this but probably the most likely is the “Leaver” scenario. A common way ...

27 September, 2018

New Application Guard Window in the Edge Browser

Every now and then you receive an email with a URL in it that makes you pause and think. Maybe it’s from a colleague or ...

27 September, 2018

FindTime - by Microsoft - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Booking a meeting? Need to find available times? We work with a multitude of different clients from the pre-sales ...

02 July, 2018

Using a Virtual Mobile Phone for Shared Multi-Factor Authentication

As an IT support organisation, we pride ourselves on staying up to date as much as possible with current trends and ...

26 June, 2018

Offering Remote Help in Windows - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

One of our clients recently asked to present all their options for Remote Support to their end-users. This ...

21 June, 2018

Technical Limitations of Migrating IBM Domino Rooms to Exchange

Recently we observed an issue with Domino Rooms that we migrated to Exchange/Office 365. In short, appointments ...

19 June, 2018

Paying it forward… - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Paying it forward… Well, not really, just plain old IT email forwarding.

27 February, 2018

The Groups Dilemma - post migration

Today a client that we had previously migrated off Lotus Notes asked us about applying Groups to their Shared Mailboxes ...

27 February, 2018

Uploading Microsoft Office Templates to SharePoint

Introduction We have a current client that deal directly with blind and partially sighted people. They have a ...

10 August, 2017

Additional Mailboxes in Office 365. More delegation woes

As at today we have an interesting problem and an open ticket with Microsoft Office 365 that is being escalated to ...

31 July, 2017

Outlook Personal Mailbox Delegation Wizard ins and outs

Unexpected Results of User Initiated Outlook Delegation Without getting too much into it, all Exchange Administrators ...

15 June, 2017

Redirect your standard folders to OneDrive for Business

Have you ever wondered wouldn’t it be better if every document I worked on was saved to the Cloud without me having to ...

15 June, 2017

Enhance Notes and Outlook Coexistence Policy Suggestion

Introduction Recommendations for new customers moving to Microsoft Outlook from IBM Lotus Notes.

23 May, 2017

Migrating Personal Contacts from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook

Introduction This document is a short form version containing the basic steps to help a fairly competent basic user ...

21 April, 2017

Exchange Resource Mailboxes - Part 1

Since Microsoft Exchange 2007 Resource Mailboxes have been a feature of Microsoft Exchange. Overall it appears that ...

24 February, 2017

The Microsoft Account Dilemma - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

For about 18 months now I have been in a world of pain. Up front I want to say that Microsoft do an incredible job at ...

03 January, 2017

Office 365 Tenant to Tenant Migration

Last weekend I undertook a Migration from one Office 365 tenant to another – manually. Whilst we normally work in the ...

06 March, 2016

Learn how to mark an email as Private in Outlook

Tagging a message as private (this doesn’t prevent sharing or printing) If you just want to let people know that you’d ...

04 March, 2016

Deleting an Outlook Profile - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

We’ve all been there. The time comes when we resort to deleting the Outlook Profile and simply start again.

18 December, 2015

Outlook “Quick Wins” over Lotus Notes & Domino

Often in the world of Notes to Exchange migrations we run into resistance at all levels at the organisation, but never ...

04 December, 2015

Configuring IBM Lotus Domino Server for SNMP

At a recent client engagement, we were asked to configure Domino for SNMP monitoring and alerting – Simple Network ...

26 November, 2015

Just How Private are Lotus Notes Private Items?

Lotus Notes Private Items, Read Receipts and Encryption Following on from my colleague Twan’s brilliant blog on Private ...

24 April, 2015

The Shared Mailbox Dilemma - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

The Shared Mailbox Dilemma Microsoft Teams (and Office 365 Groups) whilst having gained serious traction, and by ...

02 April, 2015

Exchange GAL and Offline Address Book

Introduction

27 March, 2015

Domino Routing Rules - Binary Tree Coexistence Solutions

Exchange to Domino Routing Rules specifically relating to Binary Tree Coexistence Solutions Introduction This document ...

01 August, 2014

Migrate from Lotus Notes - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

It’s a stampede… In my humble opinion I believe that IBM could have saved themselves from the juggernaut of Notes to ...

25 July, 2014

Permissons and Delegations - Lotus Notes vs Outlook

Lotus Notes ACL & Delegation versus Outlook Permissions & Delegation – Part 1

27 June, 2014

Avoiding and converting winmail.dat Files

Avoiding winmail.dat files in Domino

21 June, 2014

Configuring TLS between Domino and Exchange

Introduction In the modern messaging world Transport Layer Security has become the norm and given the ease at which ...

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