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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

19 May, 2026

Understanding migration tool nuances during Domain moves in Microsoft 365

Domain migrations in Microsoft 365 are rarely as simple as shifting email addresses from one namespace to another. The ...

12 May, 2026

How Mailbox sizes and OneDrive data has exploded over the last 10 to 15 years - and the knock - on affect for Microsoft 365 Migrations

Over the past 10 to 15 years, Microsoft 365 has fundamentally reshaped how organisations store, manage, and retain ...

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 ...

07 May, 2026

Lessons learned from large tenant‑to‑tenant migrations

Planning a tenant-to-tenant migration? Talk to us

31 March, 2026

The Importance of Translation tables for migration tools

In tenant-to-tenant (T2T) and Google-to-Microsoft 365 migration projects, maintaining accurate identity relationships ...

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

04 March, 2026

Fundamental Differences Between Google Workspace and Microsoft Tenant: A Migration Perspective - Part 1

Migrating from Google to Microsoft? We can help.

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 ...

16 September, 2025

Nero Blanco Achieves ISO 27001 Certification

We’re proud to announce that Nero Blanco has officially achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification, the internationally ...

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 ...

02 November, 2022

Identify shadow mailboxs (InvalidLicenseException)

When we perform migrations, the customer is responsible for choosing the objects which should migrate (for this blog ...

30 June, 2022

Privileged Access groups (Preview)

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

02 February, 2022

Get List of Videos from Microsoft Stream

Getting a list of videos from Stream, so that you can look to migrate them or just to see what is there is hard. There ...

15 September, 2021

Azure AD Connect v2.0 - Why should I care?

Azure AD Connect (AADC) was released many years ago and has seen many versions over those years. Microsoft fairly ...

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 ...

19 February, 2021

Conditional Access and Hybrid AD Join

It is quite common to use the Hybrid AD Join device state as part of Conditional Access. Whilst it isn’t as strong a ...

19 February, 2021

Microsoft Gold eight times over!!! - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

We are always striving to be the best, whether that is to our Clients, our Partners or our Vendors and Distributors. We ...

19 February, 2021

Troubleshooting Hybrid AD Join - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Hybrid AD Join is often used for Windows devices that are joined to an Active Directory domain, and that also need to ...

29 September, 2020

Remove Microsoft Teams conferencing information from meeting -

Update May 2021: This tool has now been removed as there are built in methods in Outlook to achieve this. See this ...

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.

26 July, 2020

Microsoft 365 Licensing - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

We are often asked which components are covered by which of the Office 365 or Microsoft 365 licensing SKUs. Well as ...

07 July, 2020

Who consumed or applied a M365 license today?

Quick one today.

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 ...

22 May, 2020

Three new Microsoft Silver Competencies

We are always striving to be the best, whether that is to our Clients, our Partners or our Vendors and Distributors. We ...

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

23 April, 2020

Case Study:- HSBC - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

PDF version of the case study.

22 April, 2020

Guest account sign in blocked - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Recently we gave a customer access to a team in our tenant, we conduct a lot of B2B collaboration.

03 April, 2020

Hmmm...can't find that team - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

We’re seeing renewed issues with Microsoft Live ID or Microsoft Personal accounts interfering with new corporate ...

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 ...

20 February, 2020

PowerShell Get-History - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

One command that I love to use in PowerShell is Get-History. It retrieves all of the commands that you have run in this ...

19 February, 2020

Working with Saved Messages in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is revolutionising how we communicate with a company. It speeds up working together, allows fast ...

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? ...

21 November, 2019

Efficient Lookups in PowerShell - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

When writing scripts in PowerShell we often need to do a lookup in another dataset. Of course one way is to use an ...

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 ...

19 June, 2019

Active Directory Replication Issues?

I was working with a client recently who had various Active Directory replication issues. They had a multi-domain ...

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 ...

28 March, 2019

Protecting Office 365 identities on a shoestring

We hear about identity theft and protection all the time in IT. For Office 365 there are number of things you can do to ...

07 February, 2019

VM troubleshooting in Azure - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Azure is a great service for hosting virtual machines, however sometimes VMs get into trouble and aren’t able to boot… ...

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 ...

31 December, 2018

SharePoint visible to unlicensed users

As the title says there is a little known ‘feature’ in SharePoint. Basically SharePoint has no licence associated with ...

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 ...

25 June, 2018

Find differences between two GPO templates

If you’ve been dealing with Group Policy Objects (GPO) for any length of time you’ll know that when a new version of ...

22 June, 2018

Mobile number not syncing via AAD Connect

Very brief observation from us today.

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.

17 May, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 7: Wrap up - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Alright, we’ve covered a lot of ground, but let’s wrap up by grabbing our original questions and answering the

10 May, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 6: Conversations - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

We have covered a lot of ground so far, and we have touched on the Kerberos conversations that go on, but let’s take a ...

03 May, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 5: Tokens - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Alright then, we’ve covered SIDs, SIDHistory, and Tickets. Let’s move onto Access Tokens.

25 April, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 4: Tickets - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Ok I think we have talked enough about SIDs in the previous two parts on SIDs and SIDHistory. Let’s move on to Kerberos ...

19 April, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 3: SIDHistory - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

In this blog we will be exploring SID History, and it follows on from Part 1 which gave an overview of Kerberos, and ...

12 April, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 2: SIDs - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

In Part 1 we set the scene in regards to how Kerberos works at a high level, so let’s now get down and dirty with ...

05 April, 2018

Inside Kerberos - 1: Overview - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

I recently did some work at a client to help migrate them to a new Active Directory. While setting up the migration ...

09 March, 2018

Add open with Notepad as Administrator

So often do I work on my laptop or on servers and I have to open a file in Notepad to edit it, however the file is ...

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 ...

06 February, 2018

NeroBlanco Lotus Notes to O365 MaaS

We’re often asked why our Migration as a service offering is more advantageous than any on-premises solution an ...

16 January, 2018

DirectAccess warm standby without IPv6

DirectAccess has come a long way and with Windows Server 2016 it is pretty easy to install as a single site, single ...

21 December, 2017

Securing the Azure AD Connect account

Azure AD Connect (AADC) integrates your Active Directory with Azure Active Directory (and from there with the various ...

23 November, 2017

Nero Blanco becomes a Power365 Certified Partner

Nero Blanco has become a Power365 Certified Partner!

15 November, 2017

Synchronisation of the LegacyExchangeDN

An interesting challenge was discovered at a client recently during testing in a development (pre prod) environment. ...

25 October, 2017

Inside the Microsoft Azure Datacenter Architecture

This is a summary of a great session by Mark Russinovich talking about Azure

25 October, 2017

OneDrive - Files on Demand - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Window 1709 (Fall Creators) has a great new feature called Files on Demand. It is a OneDrive feature that we actually ...

23 October, 2017

Sysmon Configuration with DSC - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

As part of a project I’m working on I was asked to install and configure Sysmon on all servers using DSC (Azure ...

18 October, 2017

Azure Automation DSC Composite Configurations

While working on DSC for a client I came across the need to use Composite Configurations, however it needed to work ...

02 October, 2017

Nero Blanco - Gold Cloud Platform - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

At Ignite this year Nero Blanco has reached another milestone in achieving Gold Cloud Platform status with Microsoft! ...

02 October, 2017

Allowing # and & in OneDrive for Business

At Microsoft Ignite 2017 they mentioned that OneDrive does now allow # (hash) and & (ampersand) but it needs to be ...

20 September, 2017

Microsoft 365 - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Microsoft recently released a new subscription called Microsoft 365. It is available in Business, Enterprise E3 and ...

20 September, 2017

Nero Blanco - Silver Cloud Platform - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Nero Blanco has reached another milestone in achieving Silver Cloud Platform status with Microsoft! Thanks to all of ...

20 September, 2017

Office 365 new Inactive Mailbox Licenses

Important: Microsoft has decided not to go ahead with the plan. One of the advantages of gathering at Ignite is the ...

20 September, 2017

Get all possible AD Attributes for User or Group

I recently had to work out what the full set of attributes was that could be set against a user or a group in Active ...

05 September, 2017

Windows Server 2016: Access Denied for Admin Shares

We recently had an issue that started of with a problem promoting some domain controllers in Azure. We’d set up the ...

11 August, 2017

The Banker Technology Projects of the Year Awards 2017

Did you know, Nero Blanco has a long-lasting relationship with HPe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), BT (Binary Tree) & ...

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 ...

26 July, 2017

Summarizing GDPR - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

You may well have heard about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) but do you know what it means for you? The ...

14 July, 2017

Introducing a new product Microsoft 365

At Inspire there was the announcement of a new product ‘Microsoft 365’. At the enterprise level this replaces ‘Secure ...

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.

26 May, 2017

Backup GPO Settings with retention

Backing up Active Directory should be part and parcel of creating a forest, however an often overlooked area is GPO ...

26 May, 2017

All-in-One Management Solution for Office 365

Here at Nero Blanco we are really proud to announce our newest partnership with 4ward365 .

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 ...

22 May, 2017

Outlook now asks for attachment type

A new feature is coming in Outlook which will make some of you very happy indeed… If you have been using Outlook with ...

17 May, 2017

Free Windows 10 upgrade offer via CSP

Most of us know that there was an offer from Microsoft to upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 back in 2016, however most of ...

17 May, 2017

Leveraging Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises

I know that sound like a weird title right? How can you leverage Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises? After all ...

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 ...

07 April, 2017

Exchange Federation to Office 365 without Hybrid

Exchange Federation has been around a long time, but of course more recently any time you talk about integrating with ...

15 March, 2017

Windows Firewall not writing to its logfiles

As part of Group Policy Management guidelines from the Centre of Internet Security (CIS), the recommendation is to turn ...

07 March, 2017

Exchange Server 2016 Unable to determine file version PowerShellEngine

After installing Exchange Server 2016 CU4 on Windows Server 2016, the Exchange Management Shell would fail to connect ...

05 March, 2017

Week 5 - Advanced Windows Security Course

Firstly apologies for taking this long to get back to doing the week 5 blog. It has been a manic couple of months and ...

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 ...

10 February, 2017

Microsoft Changes MCSE/MCSD... again...

As you will probably know, a few years ago Microsoft changed MCSE so that the qualifications would no longer have a ...

23 January, 2017

Domino SMTP connection round robin

Domino has its own internal processing or ideas on how it implements TTL for DNS entries on SMTP Connection documents ...

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 ...

02 January, 2017

Week 4 - Advanced Windows Security Course

Happy New Year to you all, 2017 is here! I’m spending the first week of 2017 catching up on the 4th week of course ...

30 December, 2016

Week 3 - Advanced Windows Security Course

Wow the first two weeks have whizzed on by, in fact together with my normal workload I’m struggling to keep up with the ...

12 December, 2016

Week 2 - Advanced Windows Security Course

Week 1 is behind us and we covered some great material! It has already been a real eye opener to see how easy it is to ...

30 November, 2016

Week 1 - Advanced Windows Security Course

This week marks the start of a course I am attending called ‘Advanced Windows Security Course for 2017‘ run by Paula ...

23 November, 2016

Autodiscover exposed - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

for Exchange & O365 Autodiscover is a fundamental technology in Exchange and Office 365. When Outlook first starts ...

21 November, 2016

O365 Groups, Teams, Distribution Lists or Yammer

In Office 365 there are now many similar options available for collaboration. You now have the traditional Distribution ...

14 November, 2016

Tenant Isolation in Microsoft Office 365

I have often wondered how Microsoft have architected their cloud solutions to ensure that there is no cross-talk ...

08 November, 2016

Office 365 Persistent Chat (Microsoft Teams)

A common complaint from people who are used to using Skype and who are moving to Skype for Business is where is ...

25 October, 2016

UC and Cloud Day Summary - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Birmingham hosts UC and Cloud Day Neil and myself travelled to Birmingham to attend the UC and Cloud Day. It was a ...

19 October, 2016

Wrapping up Ignite 2016 - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Ignite 2016 is once again behind us, farewell Atlanta! Our team again travelled to Ignite to try to see as many ...

13 October, 2016

Enabling Remote Administrators for O365

By Carl Baumann, CEO 4ward North America, and Twan van Beers, Nero Blanco The administration tasks for an Office 365 ...

19 September, 2016

Azure network error 1233, error 53 path not found

If you have an Azure VM that is suddenly getting errors including

16 September, 2016

What are Windows and Surface as a Service?

In recent months you may have come across the terms Windows as a Service and Surface as a Service. What exactly do they ...

08 August, 2016

What is Microsoft Cloud and Azure?

What is Cloud? The term Cloud is very common place now, but what does it actually mean? Are you already using ‘Cloud’? ...

21 July, 2016

WPC 2016 download via PowerShell

Hi all!!!

20 July, 2016

EMEA Partner of the Year 2016

Binary Tree has awarded Nero Blanco the honour of EMEA Partner of the Year 2016. We are humbled to receive this award ...

23 June, 2016

A journey through Microsoft

I thought I’d write about the various programs that are available through Microsoft and Nero Blanco’s journey so far… ...

06 June, 2016

Reaching Gold Cloud Productivity

Our aim for 2016 was to reach Gold Partner status with Microsoft, in particular in the Cloud Productivity competency, ...

23 May, 2016

Exchange Online or On Premise for SMBs - The Costs

Exchange Online is of course part of Office 365 and people are migrating to it in droves. The attractions from a ...

06 May, 2016

How can I reduce SPAM for my domains?

As any mail administrator will know SPAM is rampant on the Internet. I’ve work in organizations where over 95% of all ...

15 April, 2016

What is an SPF record?

What is an SPF record? An SPF record, or Sender Protection Framework record, is a DNS entry that allows a receiving ...

13 April, 2016

Winners at the UK Cloud Awards 2016

Nero Blanco are proud to announce that they were awarded the Best Newcomer award at the UK Cloud Awards 2016. We would ...

11 April, 2016

Free Office 365 Setup & Migration

Free Office 365 Setup, Migration and Support too good to be true? No it is a real offering from Nero Blanco, and we ...

08 April, 2016

What is this signed by onmicrosoft.com? DKIM

tenant.onmicrosoft.com What is this signed by onmicrosoft.com? Microsoft has introduced a new feature called DomainKeys ...

31 March, 2016

We Are An UK Cloud Awards Finalist

Nero Blanco has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category for the UK Cloud Awards! We are thrilled to have been ...

14 March, 2016

Your Partner of Record for Office 365

Nero Blanco as your Office 365 Partner of Record By designating Nero Blanco as your Office 365 Partner, we receive ...

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.

15 January, 2016

The BEST reason to keep a Hybrid Exchange Server

We are often asked about should I have a Hybrid Server (be that for administration only or for full Hybrid) and so last ...

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 ...

23 October, 2015

Microsoft Silver Cloud Productivity - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

A very quick announcement to say that as well as being Microsoft Silver Messaging Partners, Nero Blanco has now also ...

03 October, 2015

Stop users sending emails from Lotus Notes after migration.

There are a number things needed to send email from Notes when you have local mailfiles.

11 September, 2015

Access domino console through Notes client, without the Admin client.

Too many times I have been at a customer site and wanted to access the IBM Domino Console to see live information but ...

09 August, 2015

How private are private items in Exchange

We sometimes get asked how private are private items? The short answer is not very… private items is an Outlook and OWA ...

24 July, 2015

Links and Backlinks in Active Directory for Exchange

In Active Directory (AD) there is the concept of objects, attributes and links between objects.

17 July, 2015

Convert Mailbox to Linked Mailbox - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

When performing an AD migration it is sometimes necessary to make the mailbox a linked mailbox so that the migrated ...

10 July, 2015

SMART AD Migrator Architecture - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

This week we will look more deeply into the Binary Tree SMART AD Migrator software’s architecture, and how to scale up ...

02 July, 2015

Merge a MailContact with a User - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Often when doing migrations some form of GalSync has taken place or where admins have manually created mailcontacts in ...

26 June, 2015

Convert Mailbox to Mailuser - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

I was asked to convert a mailbox to a mailuser, and funny enough although the reverse is true, you can’t just call ...

19 June, 2015

Introducing SMART AD Migrator from Binary Tree

We’ve just had two days of training using the revamped SMART AD Migrator software from Binary Tree. They’ve had an AD ...

12 June, 2015

Bandwidth Latency's Relationship to Throughput

This post aims to explain bandwidth and latency individually and then look at how they relate to throughput. It came ...

03 June, 2015

Deleting Folders - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

from an Exchange Mailbox with PowerShell I was given an escalation at a client where somehow a user managed to create ...

29 May, 2015

Sending TLS mail to Exchange from the command line

Before we look at sending TLS mail to Exchange, let’s talk about using a command line to send mail without TLS.

22 May, 2015

Demystifying AD Schema Extensions for Exchange

Now most people who have been around Active Directory (AD) will understand about the AD schema and that some ...

15 May, 2015

Microsoft Ignite 2015 - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Back from Microsoft Ignite, great conference but to be honest it was a bit too big really. 25,000 attendees and the ...

30 April, 2015

Setting up a new Office 365 Tenant - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

Setting up a new Office 365 tenant may seem daunting, but actually it is a pretty simple process. In this blog we will ...

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 ...

17 April, 2015

Design for an enterprise scale Exchange 2013 OAB

Today we will be discussing how to design your Exchange 2013 Offline Address Book (OAB) for an enterprise scale client. ...

11 April, 2015

Least access model - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

for Lotus Notes to Exchange data migrations In many organisations to achieve accessing mail data for a migration you ...

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 ...

20 March, 2015

OABGen encountered file error ffffffff

The problem started with users reporting that their Offline Address Book (OAB) was missing some recent new starters, ...

05 December, 2014

Exchange PowerShell Quickstart - Bonus

Over the past 5 episodes we have been covering all sorts of aspects of Exchange PowerShell fundamentals. This week I ...

28 November, 2014

Exchange PowerShell Quickstart - Part 5

Over the past four parts we have covered connecting to Exchange and discovering cmdlets in part 1. We explored the ...

21 November, 2014

Exchange PowerShell Quickstart - Part 4

Over the past three parts we have covered connecting to Exchange and discovering cmdlets in part 1. We explored the ...

31 October, 2014

Exchange PowerShell Quickstart - Part 3

Over the past two weeks we have covered connecting to Exchange and discovering cmdlets in part 1, and we explored the ...

24 October, 2014

Exchange PowerShell Quickstart - Part 2

Last week in part 1 we looked at the background on PowerShell, explored terminology and some basic commands. This week ...

17 October, 2014

Exchange PowerShell Quickstart - Part 1

Background As we know Microsoft is firmly banking on PowerShell to be THE way to manage all of their operating systems ...

03 October, 2014

Cross forest in Exchange - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

How to open a mailbox cross forest in Exchange We often migrate users between Exchange organisations/forests, or need ...

26 September, 2014

Factors affecting Migration velocity - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

After a lot of experience in the field I’ve tried to bring together a bunch of items to consider when embarking on a ...

19 September, 2014

Exchange Cascaded Folder Permission

If you have ever done delegation in Lotus Notes and were then migrated to Outlook you would have noticed one big ...

05 September, 2014

Restoring a Disconnected Mailbox - Nero Blanco IT Migration Specialists

in Exchange I came across an issue at a client where for reasons as yet unknown about 15 users across various ...

29 August, 2014

Exchange Copy-MailboxFolderPermission

Are you sometimes asked by VIPs to get Folder Permissions sorted out in Outlook when they get a replacement PA?

22 August, 2014

Exchange Replication over a Split Network

Let’s start off by explaining what I mean by Exchange replication over a split network. I am talking about a DAG split ...

15 August, 2014

Active Directory Authentication - Part 2

In part 1, we talked about authentication via NTLM and how the domain controllers that are used to authenticate you are ...

08 August, 2014

Active Directory Authentication - Part 1

Today we are deviating away from the more Messaging related threads and we will be looking at authentication.

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