Yearly Archives: 2024

When setting up forwarding from Microsoft 365 (formerly referred to as Office 365) to Help Scout, you may need take an additional step to complete the process. Some Microsoft 365 accounts default to block automatic email forwarding as part of their outbound spam protection. If external forwarding is disabled for your Microsoft 365 account, you will see a specific bounce message in your inbox at Microsoft 365 after attempting to set up forwarding to Help Scout. The text of the bounce will include this line: (more…)

As Alex Weinert, the Directory of Identity Security at Microsoft, mentions in his blog post Your Pa$$word doesn’t matter:

Your password doesn’t matter, but MFA does! Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.

The guidance in this article will help your organization create a balanced MFA policy for your environment. (more…)

Download the Office Deployment Tool Create the configuration.xml <Configuration> <Add SourcePath="\\Server\Share" OfficeClientEdition="64" Channel="PerpetualVL2019"> <Product ID="ProPlus2019Volume" PIDKEY="#####-#####-#####-#####-#####" > <Language ID="en-us" /> </Product> <Product ID="ProofingTools"> <Language ID="de-de" /> <Language ID="ja-jp" /> </Product>…

SSH -> USG show vpn ipsec sa

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades sudo passwd -l root

I am an Independent Advisor here to help. I know that this situation is frustrating. This type of error is cause when Windows was activated using a Volume License Key.…

One of the questions that we are most frequently asked is regarding users or administrators who subscribe to Office 365 but who are tired of receiving Office 365 password expiration notifications. These users might not be used to the service’s default password expiration policy, especially if they are coming from in-house systems that had more lenient expiration requirements. Although I am not entirely convinced that setting passwords to never expire is smart, if you choose secure passwords and use multifactor authentication, I do not think that disabling password expiration in Office 365 causes major difficulties. (more…)

The error comes while executing the Get-MsolUser Azure AD PowerShell command to fetch Office 365 users.

Follow the below steps to fix the issue. (more…)

In the event that you’re using UUID or MAC Address to uniquely identify computers in a database (the MDT database or SCCM for example) you might want a quick and…

Oh the joy to be free of the cloud. (Someone elses computers!)

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