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  • 1.  Launching the Classic CE configuration Tool

    Posted Wed July 24, 2019 09:40 AM
    I need the ability to change the "Remote PowerShell URL" in the Cloud Extender Configuration Tool.

    The ability to modify this URL is non-existent in the new Cloud Extender Configuration Tool, yet I know it exists in the "Classic Tool", since that is where I've had to change it before.

    I have a tenant that is "stuck" using the new configuration tool with no ability to switch to classic, even with the newly-installed cloud extender.

    How can I make the Configuration Tool launch in the classic view?


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    Grant
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  • 2.  RE: Launching the Classic CE configuration Tool

    Posted Fri July 26, 2019 11:48 AM
    When you use the Modern Config Tool to configure EAS for Office 365, you can edit the configuration and navigate to the panel that is titled "Email Server Configuration".  Under that panel you will see a text box titled "Email Server hostname".  In that text box you can customize the value.  That customized value will be used to update the read-only value shown next to "Remote Powershell URL".  The config tool simply takes your "Email Server hostname" and frames inside the leading "https://" and trailing "/powershell" text.

    If you desire to use the older config tool, you can use Windows Explorer to navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\MaaS360\Cloud Extender" and run the ASConfig.exe executable.

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    Walter Clark
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  • 3.  RE: Launching the Classic CE configuration Tool

    Posted Fri July 26, 2019 11:54 AM
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    You can use the Modern Config Tool to update your "Remote Powershell URL". You do this by editing the EAS Office 365 configuration.
    Navigate to the "Email Server Configuration" panel. In that panel, you will see a text box labled "Email Server hostname".
    You can customize the value in this text box. When you do this, the read-only "Remote PowerShell URL" that is displayed will be updated automatically. The "Remote PowerShell URL" is the value that you enter for the "Email Server hostname", with leading "https://" text and trailing "/powershell" text.

    If you want to run the older config tool, you do that by using Windows Explorer and navigating to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\MaaS360\Cloud Extender" folder, and running the ASConfig.exe executable.

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    Walter Clark
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  • 4.  RE: Launching the Classic CE configuration Tool

    Posted Fri July 26, 2019 08:29 PM
    Walter, thank you very much for your responses.

    There may be application-layer filtering in the way, but I do not want to change the value of the hostname.

    I want to change the trailing /powershell to:

    /powershell-liveid

    which is the alternate URL _suggested by_ the old config tool.

    I can NOT do this in the new CE config tool

    And your first suggestion, which I recommended as a good answer for my original question, does launch the old config tool.

    It's just that it crashes if you try to change this URL to what it suggests.

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    Grant
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  • 5.  RE: Launching the Classic CE configuration Tool

    Posted Mon July 29, 2019 02:57 PM
    Hi Grant:
    I see what you are saying. There is another way around this problem. You can run the EMSAgentCmd.exe utility and use the following command to update the powershell URL in the Cloud Extender's database:
    setprofile -key RemotePSServerURI -value https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid
    You can set the RemotePSServerURI to whatever value you need.

    The EMSAgentCmd.exe utility is located in the "C:\Program Files (x86)\MaaS360\Cloud Extender" folder. I suggest running this utility as an administrator.
    You can check the value by entering the following command:
    getprofile -key RemotePSServerURI

    Also, the next time you run the Modern Config Tool, you will see the updated URL. But, a word of caution, if you change the "Email Server hostname" again using the config tool, you will loose your update for the custom URL.
    We will look into fixing this gap in a future release.

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    [Walter James] [Clark]
    [Cloud Extender Agent, Technical Lead]
    [IBM, MaaS360]
    [Blue Bell] [PA]
    Walter
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  • 6.  RE: Launching the Classic CE configuration Tool

    Posted Tue July 30, 2019 02:24 PM
    Hi Walter,


    Thanks for this workaround, however with the newest Modern Config Tool, you cannot "save" the configuration with the O365 GA accounts without validating them.

    And you cannot modify the URL using your workaround without having already "configured and saved" at the screen asking for the GA accounts.

    Essentially this is a catch22.

    The only way I see being able to get around this is if I somehow can use the EMSAgentCmd.exe utility to configure the entire CE configuration.

    Do you have such a procedure documented?
    Can you post the necessary commands to carry this out?

    thanks

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    Grant
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