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TCP https://www.screwfix.com/c/electrical-lighting/light-bulbs/cat8350001?brand=tcp No hub required and is compatible with Alexa/ Google. I know you say you are not able to change socket faces but BG do a nice smart socket: https://www.screwfix.com/search?search=Bg+smart Again no hub needed and compatible with Alexa and Google. Oh and both of these companies are open to updates and suggestions as I have had a number included in releases of the software. You can configure routines for both lights and sockets (if done in the apps these are pulled into alexa) not noticed any real difference between these and the ones I have a hub for TBH. I have a routine called lights out, all out and automation events that call these routines like sunrise and sunset if one of the Ring devices detects motion and have even been experimenting with a RPi PRI connected up an all.

Ah fair point, my wife is continually ordering of Amazon I really don't know where it all goes. Some days I think we have turned into an amazon parcel hub!

Well you would not want it filling up your own bins so you would drop it in one of your other neighbours recycling surly! Also those bin men are really judgemental and if they notice you are drinking more you will be the talk of the cab...

When I get round to installing the sump buster and her car gets picked up on it she will think twice...

https://evotec.xyz/visually-display-active-directory-nested-group-membership-using-powershell/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=visually-display-active-directory-nested-group-membership-using-powershell Came across the above useful set cmdlets and scripts to dig into nested groups.

Yeah I have a neighbour who continually uses my drive to turn round on and asking her not just ended it a torrent of abuse. I think that your conversation could go the same way!

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/cloud-services/217204-azure-renamed-ou-azure-complaining-error-type-attributevaluemustbeunique.html#post1858889 I am just going to link back to the above post as I have tried to give a high level overview of how the sync engine works, this will help when you are looking at sync issues and errors and how certain actions could cause you issues.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/active-directory/proxyaddresses-attribute-populate The above may help with understanding how the proxyaddresses attribute is calculated. I am also going to try and give a really brief overview or how the sync engine works. You make changes to objects in the connected data source (AD in this case), these are then written in to the connector space. The MA rules are applied and then the resulting changes are written to the metaverse. The metaverse then sends these changes out to the connector space of other connected data sources (in this case Azure AD) the MA agent projects/ propagates those changes to the connected data source. If you have that in your head when looking at sync errors it can help you. I am a man of FIM/MIM (keep this quiet but AADC is really the FIM/MIM sync engine) TBH it's going to be something daft, thing is these are not my directories and I am going to be careful what I tell you to do, also its a learning opportunity, and just hitting all the keys may well fix this problem but that only works for so long. :-p

Need to see what the MA's are saying in AADC, from there you can also look at the stack trace and get a little more info about what's going on.

Here is a link that explains it better than I can: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/plan-connect-design-concepts

The sync engine and this depends on how old your AADC (dirsync) install is uses an anchor and should be immutable for the life time of an object, that is across both local AD and Azure AD. The UPN has little to do with how the sync engine matches objects between on perm and cloud, although it will complain if you end up with duplicate attributes and actively protects you from that happing in your tenant. You can if you still are able get the immutable value and with a little powershell magic it is possible to shoe horn this back on to a new on prem object (identity/ user account) but I will say this and have always said this identities should never be resurrected.

Yeah this is where you should not reuse identities on small scales and isolated environments this practices is ok(ish) but when you scale up or start syncing them it becomes more of an issue MS best practice is to not reuse, not unfixable but certainly will cause more pain than you need! I know this from my FIM/ MIM experience and the AADC sync is essentially MIM. So that's the long answer the short answer is no! You need to sort the duplicate issues out. Then you need to solve the recreation rather than migration of users up a year group with out recreating all the groups don't know salamander tho, like I say I am a MIM man.

I thought DNS initially but the script is using a hard coded path.

Sounds like a profile issue?

yeah need to see what the MA's in the sync engine are saying on your AAD connect server, also would be handy to post the version number on AADC an all.

If your using exchange/ o365 you can setup your own automated password changer with little work.. In fact any mailbox service would probably do I just know how to do it with MS products and know I can secure it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits#message-limits Don't know the size of your org but we are a fair size and we do sometimes hit the limits and have ways to deal with it.... Let me know your thinking, check your logs to see what's going on!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/tshoot-connect-connectivity If you are behind a proxy take a look at the above.

An identity solution like MIM would be a good idea you probably get access to it with your licensing (it's a guess). You can do it with scripts and I would be happy to help build these can you anonymous the data in the csv and PM me it so I can take a look.

Teams has a kanban many versions available including plugins for teams. JIRA is good for a more wide reaching management tool, and plumsale do a nice sharepoint help desk.

Yeah I have just pointed you at the commands, absolutely can script the creation of the mailboxes with a few more lines of PS. Leave it with me

Sorry someone has just said that I talk about using graph calls all the time in scripts to "get/ do stuff" in office and azure tenants and never go into how to do this. My preferred method is via PowerShell but I have been known to use other methods and languages, i will if needs be do a bit of a step by step/ deep dive on how to accomplish tasks using the Graph API and Powershell along with what is needed from an azure configuration perspective if that would help anyone, let me know...

So there is a graph API call that can be used here are the details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-list-licensedetails?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http I will code something up and post it here when I have something.

PowerShell can do this, see here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients/create-user-mailboxes?view=exchserver-2019

Yeah fair point, so yeah the graph API and powershell can certainly do this. Just feed in a list of the attendees for your script and iterate through that list just make sure you have some error trapping and check the return code from the call.