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Office 365 Cutover Migration no report with passwords

So my sync is complete, and  I have a couple of migration emails, but both have password previously set instead of the actual temp password. I've searched, but I cannot find the first report anywhere that has the passwords.

So what are my options. I could manually change them all, or can I bulk change them?  I plan on using single sign on so I'm in the process of setting up AD connect, but all I've read says I need to wait to do that until after the batch is deleted. Since we have emails in limbo waiting on the next incremental sync that could be 24hours.
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If you are going to set up SSO, distributing the new passwords is just overhead. But you can certainly bulk change them if you want, I have an example script here: http://www.michev.info/Blog/Post/1419/

Make sure to exclude any accounts for which you dont want the password regenerated :)
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That is kind of what I thought, but I'm not ready to delete the migration batch. So can/should I deploy AD Connect to sync the passwords while that batch is open?
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Ug so I'm in a bit of a loop. I can't remove the existing outlook profiles because they don't have their passwords to setup the new one. So they keep sending internal mail to each other, that mail then needs to sync via the batch I can't close.  Guess bulk changing them or doing them one at a time is the only way.
How many users do you have?

you can create a group policy or batch script to force a new outlook profile. Plan it with the users in advance. when users open outlook a few nexts and new password  they should be up and running.
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Looks like it isn't too bad doing it in bulk, as you can just use the portal GUI. Just go to Users select all the ones you want and choose reset password. There is a random option and it emails me a list so I can distribute to them. I'll probably just write a simple powershell to email them via the internal server to instruct them to use the online version until I migrate all of their profiles.
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100 or so.  Good idea on using GPO, however I'm having an issue with Outlook 2007 still autodiscovering the internal mail server even though I've ran Set-ClientAccessServer AutodiscoverInternalConnectionURI to Null to disable it. Outlook 2016 finds it correctly so I may deploy that in GPO as well.
 

I just got ahead of myself this morning when I flipped the MX record, now in a bit of a panic as the clients weren't prepared.
Outlook 2007/2010 , some manual configuration maybe needed...also  check the patch level as well. its not a supported configuration but MS have release patches.

This worked for me....

http://www.colorado.edu/oit/tutorial/office-365-outlook-windows-manual-exchange-configuration
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I think you've set me on the correct path. Instead of even messing with 2007, I'll just push them 2016 which I was going to anyway.