Evotec is a small company based in Mikołów, in the Silesia region of Poland. We provide our customers with professional services, outsourcing, and consulting in all IT-related topics.
💡 Outsourcing
Evotec helps small and medium-sized businesses to stop worrying about their IT infrastructure needs. We can take all or just some of your services.
💡 Consulting
Evotec can handle all your IT consulting and project needs. We will work on a solution that makes sense for you, your business, and your budget.
💡 Integrations
Evotec can handle all your implementation and integration needs. Got a new software you need to be installed and configured? We make it happen.
💡 Software
We offer software designed to fulfill the task you need taken care of. No software on the market? We will make it for you.
💡 Migrations
We provide migration services from older systems or software to new versions. Whether it's Microsoft, VMWare, or Symantec, we can help.
💡 Audits
We help small and medium-sized businesses to stop worrying about their IT infrastructure needs. We can take all or just some of your services.
Check out our latest blog posts to see a snapshot of our technical expertise. We tackle a wide range of diverse challenges every day, demanding an innovative approach. Whether it involves legacy on-premises infrastructure or cutting-edge technology, we are always ready to provide assistance. legacy on-premise infrastructure or the latest technology, there's always a place where we can help.
23 Nov: Outlook – The primary account cannot be removed unless it is the only account in the profile
Last few months I'm responsible for the migration of Office 365 to Office 365. While doing so, we came into a situation where users have their old mailbox as Primary Account and new Mailbox as their secondary account. This is a quite common scenario that people are running into and something that is expected. Usually, my recommendation is: Please create a new profile for user and topic is closed. It's also quite easy to achieve this in an automated way where you delete all profiles and Outlook just goes with autodiscovery adding new account as required. That's how I have always done this till now. My Client has gone thru setting up 1000+ users with their second account in Outlook and deleting a whole profile, recreating would cause lots of downloading of emails from Office 365 that my Client wanted to avoid.
As you may know, PowerShell has multiple streams. Write-Output, Write-Error, Write-Warning, Write-Verbose, Write-Debug, and Write-Information. It also has Write-Host which until PowerShell 5 was a bit special. Since PowerShell 5.1 it's a wrapper over Write-Information, so it doesn't kill puppies anymore. While I could spend the next five pages trying to give my best and describe those streams, there are already many articles describing them in detail. Please check the following link if you need that information.
I've been working with PowerShell Modules for a while now, and most of my knowledge about them came from Warren F (psCookieMonster) blog about Building a PowerShell Module. It is a handy piece of information and recommended read for anyone starting up writing PowerShell Modules. He introduces an idea where a module is stored in multiple folders Private, Public, Bin, Lib and so on and having YourModule.psm1 as a wrapper for functions, binaries in those folders, where each function is stored in its file. It's an excellent concept, and I use it every day. It allows me to jump into a file quickly I want to find and fundamentally easier for development, especially in teams.
Last few weeks I'm responsible for migrating from Office 365 to Office 365. Part of this migration process is to set up new Exchange 2016 server that will work as relay instead of using IIS server. I've setup hybrid, added accepted domains, prepared connectors, but there's one thing missing. Any time an email is sent via relay to a user that exists on Office 365 and at the same time exists in Active Directory email never gets there.
MigrationWiz from Bittitan is one of the best tools on the market allowing for migration of user mailboxes. Whether it's a google account, exchange account or IMAP, it will help you out. Last few months I'm part of migration project that is using Bittitan at its core. One of the signature features of this tool is the ability to migrate mailboxes from Office 365 tenant to Office 365 tenant. This is not something that every application can do. Another feature (and something I want to address today) is the ability to ask users for their logins and password to migrate their data from one tenant to another tenant. While in general, you shouldn't do that and you should use migration accounts with proper permissions sometimes you have no other choice.
💡 What we do
Evotec's outsourcing department is specializing in helping out small and medium-sized businesses. However, we also work for large corporations on a contract basis. We strive to offer the best service for all topics related to IT. Our goal is to provide a complete set of IT services, so we offer our Clients a complete takeover of their existing infrastructure, including server management, desktop management, and network management. We solve all our Client problems on all possible levels, so our clients don't have to worry about anything and focus on their core business and not constantly worry about their IT infrastructure.
💡 How can we help with your IT
Evotec acts as your full IT department. Our Service Desk provides knowledgeable & friendly tech support for your employees. Our administrators support your servers from behind the scenes, and our managers are always there to support you with planning your IT needs. We reduce downtime, boost productivity and specialize in reducing IT budgets with our flat monthly rates. Evotec monitors, backups, repairs, and maintains your computers, servers, and network for total peace of mind.