@scottalanmiller said:

@AVI-NetworkGuy said:

4. In regards to your current issues with OneDrive not provisioning - again, this is something that needs to be looked at by Office 365 support, which, if you have valid subscriptions, should be more than available to help. If a tenant service (like OneDrive for Business) isn't provisioning properly, that means something happened at a higher level that needs to be looked at by MS technicians.

They are looking at it now, and that's the only piece that this thread was about. All of the other stuff was brought in separately not by me. There have been issues, but this one is not connected to those. That there was a loss of my old account was only context for why I am suddenly setting one up "new" in the last few weeks since I've "had" O365 for a long time.

MS concierge level support has been engaged on this entire process and support had stalled for quite some time. We escalated again last night and this morning are getting engagement on the back end, but until we post publicly about these issues we've found that support has been dropping us after struggling with solving them (same with Azure, they claimed it was fixed and dropped support, then we posted to here and SW and only then did MS actually attempt to fix it) so putting it here to document the issue and pressure support to stay on top of it.

Obviously MS has to be the ones to fix this, just documenting issues.

Yeah, the stalled provisioning issue is def for MS support, but the data recovery (depending on how thiss stuff was set up) thing sounds like something a global admin could have accomplished, but either way, I hope it ends in your favor and everything is all clouds and cotton candy Lemme know if I can help!!

I tend to use a mix. Firefox is the only browser, currently, that will load the VMware add-on properly for VSphere web client - annoying. So I would say about 80% of my time is spent in Chrome, 10% Firefox, the rest is in either Edge or IE

@scottalanmiller said:

MS just managed to recover my old data. They are monitoring the ODfB setup issue now to see why or where it is stalling to see what can be done.

Now THAT makes total sense!

I'm chiming in a bit late here, but there are a lot of missing data here. This thread reads like an end user (no offense Scott, you know I love you lol) posting in an IT-peer forum to help solve their problem when the Administrator of the service is kept out of the loop on the thread - so much missing information.

Information such as:

1. Who is administering this account? We need a global admin on the tenant involved here for that Office 365 tenant. Is that you, Scott? Do you have that level of access in the tenant? What subscription do you have assigned to that user account? Is this a "business" account (e.g. Enterprise E1, E3, etc...)?

2. What type of account are you using to log in? Is it a DirSync account? Is it a pure cloud account?

3. In regards to the lost email and such - that is completely unacceptable and actually makes no sense from an admin standpoint, at least based on my knowledge and past experiences. For example, If I remove a user (i.e. stop syncing them, in the case of DirSync), it removes the account, but the email and corresponding SharePoint\OneDrive docs is still on that tenant for (I believe) 30 days and is totally recoverable either by re-syncing the account and assigning a license, or by contacting Office 365 support and working with them (I have worked with Office 365 support MANY times and have had much success with them - your experience is not typical and I am actually very surprised by it). In fact, if the user is set up properly in Active Directory and has an assigned manager, that manager is emailed automatically to let the person know that the terminated employees resources are available for review. There are also indefinite archives (and it doesn't count against any storage - it's quite slick actually). I have rules set up so that I have the email of every single employee that ever worked here, even if their account is long gone. I can download a PST of that user's email at a whim.

4. In regards to your current issues with OneDrive not provisioning - again, this is something that needs to be looked at by Office 365 support, which, if you have valid subscriptions, should be more than available to help. If a tenant service (like OneDrive for Business) isn't provisioning properly, that means something happened at a higher level that needs to be looked at by MS technicians.

I would be into this. Having access to a more robust lab environment would be incredible.

@scottalanmiller said:

You need a written policy.

Spoken like a true CIO!

"No one shall be permitted to hand out stinky cheeses, or cheese-like things, in or around said conference. All stinky cheeses must immediately be reported to IT for proper quarantine and decontamination. Failure to report things like stinky cheeses up to and including (the following list is not exhaustive) Limburger, Roquefort, Epoisses, Pont l’Eveque, etc... will result in immediate expulsion from and future banning from said conference."

Yeah, depending on how your client is configured, the 2016 automatic client updates aren't starting until February 2016. If your tenant enables First Release for users, they can grab it from that link in their portal page. Otherwise, IT has to be the one to initiate the upgrade of Office 365 ProPlus from the "2013" version to the "2016" version. It's very confusing in true Microsoft fashion.

The latest OWA interface on O365 is pretty awesome, I think. It's fast and reliable. Outlook can be a bit of a hog, but I depend on it for a lot of my organization habits.

Meh...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-rolls-out-exchange-server-2016/

@scottalanmiller said:

In many cases I actually feel like people are shoving garbage into my hands as I walk around. I never ask for it, people insist that I take it. It is the rare exception that I am like "oh, can I have one of those?"

Like a giant block of Limburger cheese?

I basically echo everyone else's sentiments here. The only swag I've ever found useful were USB sticks (of a USABLE size >8 GB), maybe pens, portable rechargers, and higher quality t-shirts (for example, the Adtran shirt at SW this year was of excellent quality I thought). At the end of every SW I've been to, most of it goes in the garbage (which is a shame on many levels).

@coliver said:

Holy crap. Where was this a few months ago when I was building my click-to-run installer? Thanks for the info.

Right?! You can even upload your own and tweak it using that interface instead of going back and forth between notepad and the crappy TechNet doc lol.

Another useful script there (and I have to find it to link it) is a reverse engineering script. So let's say you have a C2R deployment out there that you can't determine the current settings easily, it will build an XML file from that individual installation to tell you what's installed, update location, etc.. It's pretty cool stuff.

I'm sure some of you are aware of this, but many of you may not be (or don't care lol), but there is a pretty awesome web-based XML file builder for the Click-to-Run Office setup here

http://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html

There are also MANY other valuable PS scripts and such in the GitHub repository here:

https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/blob/master/README.md

Might come in handy for some of you. The XML builder alone has definitely come in handy for me.

@Minion-Queen said:

That's where you went to the last night!

Ha yes! Back up to my room, I spoke to my wife for the first time all day and I was laying on my bed, said goodbye to her and then I said goodnight to the world lol.

@Dashrender said:

@AVI-NetworkGuy where you at any of the SAM drinking fests this year?

Yup! I went to the first night. I closed out two bars lol. The second night was recovering\working, and the third night I got caught up on the phone with my wife and collapsed on my bed before I could get back up to go to Touche's haha

@Minion-Queen said:

Yeah some people are bad with faces just like I am with names though.

I suppose, but I've had long, substantial, (and usually sober) conversations with some of these people on multiple occasions. I know not remembering me isn't intentional - these are all good people. I'm just saying that I second guess MYSELF asking what can I do differently other than set myself on fire to make myself more "rememberable" lol.

@Minion-Queen said:

Part of people not remembering who you are isn't intentional. I can remember a face but am horrible at names so people are like I talk to you on the community all the time.... I have to apologize cause I don't remember.

I don't mean not remembering a name. That I totally get - I'm really bad with names. I am talking about a total lack of any recognition whatsoever.

Ever see the movie "50 First Dates"? Think that... lol

The 5K at SW was probably one my favorite social, "on the side", parts of the conference (aside from the BBQ on the SCALE boat - f*%#, that was good BBQ lol). I met a few other people I hadn't met before and connected. I even got lost and did 2 extra miles with one of them! lol.

Anyway, yeah the dichotomy thing is at epidemic levels at SpiceWorld now. I've been to 4 of them over the past 5 years (missed one for my wedding in 2013), and I still sometimes feel like an "outsider", and that can be rough. I always try as hard as I can to get involved and such, but it can be hard for me at times (e.g. not knowing what to talk about, not knowing what to bring up, is what I'm saying stupid to the other person, am I not talking enough, etc...). For example - I've met Grey and spoken to him no less than 8-9 times and each time, he has no idea who I am. Same goes for people like Bob Beatty, Phil Moya, etc... It doesn't make them bad people - far from it, I think they are awesome. It just makes me second guess myself, like, what am I doing wrong that these people I've met and spoken to on multiple occasions don't remember me worth a damn? lol

Some people are just more socially engaged than others and you'll never get away from that in IT I think. I work with 50 devs as my users and 99% of them are completely socially awkward or SUPER introverted. It's just the way they are. IT folks aren't like that, usually, but there are some that tend to be.

@Dashrender said:

I love this! and this brought along another idea - how to setup enterprise WiFi (Windows centric), deployed via GPO using RADIUS, etc.

Even better! Maybe set up a track for this - like one session would be setting up the PKI and another follow-up session showing how to put it to good use in smaller environments.

It's stuff like this that gives IT a bad name in terms of it incorrectly being labeled a "cost center". Like you said, reliability is the goal and throwing money away on solutions that not only don't help, but could actively HURT the goal of reliability, perpetuate these financial stigmas with IT. Thanks for this!!