How to approach Microsoft Entra ID Connect during “on-prem” migration
These days almost every AD or especially Mail migration has to account for Microsoft Entra ID Connect presence in the environment. I want to cover transition scenario where one AD domain is being migrated into another AD Domain, while migrated objects continue to be synchronized into the Azure cloud.
Handling “Remote Registry” service as part of QMM RUM requirement
QMM RUM always had a requirement for the “Remote Registry” service to be running on migrated computers but starting with Windows 8 / Server 2012 Microsoft has made it a bit more challenging for the migration engineers to handle. Even if you set it to “Automatic” and start, it will eventually be stopped by OS […]
Does Power Shell not like UPN authentication?
Moving to “E-mail” based login is all the rage. Recently a large customer wanted to use the E-Mail as the login. A new User Principal Name (UPN) suffix was created so a UPN suffix that did not match the domain and the left hand side did not match the sAMAccount Name. No big deal, things […]
How to Authenticate via UPN Across a Trust
How well does cross domain authentication work across a Trust? If you have a Forest trust, pretty good. Just make sure you have your UPN routing setup on the trust configuration. And across a domain trust? Not so well, and not at all “out of the box”. Because we work in the migration space and […]
Who should you trust Coherence, Inc. as your vendor?
You have a Directory or E-Mail migrations to do? Who should you trust as your vendor? Coherence has been doing full time e-mail and directory migrations since 2004. That pretty much all we do. And we do it quite well. We have done very small migrations (only 5 accounts), very large migrations (over 1 million), […]
Sync and transform AD attributes with One Identity ARSS (Active Roles Sync Services)
While QMM (Quest Migration Manager) can handle plenty of very complex migration scenarios in terms of AD attributes synchronization tasks, sometimes even such variety is not enough. This is where ARSS comes to help.
QCS (Quest Collaboration Services) Namespaces logic
The documented QCS logic of how it picks redirection address on the stub objects may use some additional clarification so I am going to share it here per my QCS 3.7 – based LAB testing.
CPUU and Outlook 2016
With the arrival of Outlook 2016 and Migration Manager adding its support starting with CPUU 5.6, it now has some additional parameters which I wanted to cover in this article.
MS Exchange Client-Server protocols
Just came across this simple diagram of MS Exchange client-server protocols and figured I’d share it here. These days there is a bit of a confusion on where each protocol used in Exchange so I decided to try and fill this gap. I will also put it in the context of QMM migrations and describe how it […]
Hyper-V “Connect to VM” graphics issue
You may say that it’s not a migration related issue but I will disagree with you here because once you start having issues with your migration LAB, all your migration plans start falling apart…
