Tag: office365
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SonicWall blocks msftncsi.com as malware
UPDATE: Sonicwall is aware of the issue with their content filtering service (CFS) blocking msftncsi.com. They are working to fix the issue this week and recommend implementing a allow URI list for www.msftncsi.com and msftncsi.com. Microsoft Windows 10 and 7 perform periodic checks to see if it is properly connected to the Internet. The check…
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Google Apps to Office 365 migration the wrong way
So if you’re planning on moving from Google Apps to Office 365, don’t perform a PST migration. The result could be that each migrated email has an incorrectly formatted x400 email address and replying to any migrated messages will yield a 550 5.1.11 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound NDR. [the problem] When using Outlook 2016 and Google Apps Sync…
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Office365 planning – don’t change the region
According to Microsoft customer support, to change regions on a Office365 subscription, you must backup and then destroy the entire subscription and all account data, then recreate it in the region you want to move to. Sound crazy? I thought so. Let’s take this example: You’ve got a large international firm with several offices around…
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Reinstall Microsoft Office 2010 on a Dell
If you purchased a Dell with Microsoft Office pre-installed in the past few years, chances are all you got in the box was a Operating System recovery DVD and small paper card with the Microsoft Office product key on it. Should you find yourself in the situation where the systems hard drive has failed and…
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Managing multiple office 365 instances with powershell scripts
I’ve migrated a lot of customers to Office 365. The web-based partner administration for Exchange, Sharepoint and Lync works well, but some things are just easier with with powershell. Here’s how I administer Office 365 instances with custom powershell scripts. I basically create a separate PS1 file for each office365 instance pre-configured with the admin…
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Bulk-create external email contacts in Exchange/Office 365
Say someone asked you to create an exchange distribution group with a thousand new external email addresses. Well, back in the day, you’d download some shady utility off the web and cross your fingers hoping not to spend the rest of your day cleaning up a failed bulk import with ADSIedit. Well, with Exchange 2007…
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Outlook 2013 and Lync 2013 suddenly cannot run at the same time
If you’ve made the switch to Office 365 you may have had a relatively smooth ride since the they’ve moved things to Exchange 2013 and Office 2013. That said, nothing’s ever all roses all the time, am I right? Today a customer experienced an issue where suddenly Lync 2013 is no longer able to launch…
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Public folder 2gb limit in office365
Office 365 has an undocumented issue with storage quotas on public folders. Office365 subscriptions offer 50GB of mailbox storage for public folders, but if you copy more than 2GB of data into a freshly created public folder within office365, you’ll get an error about the folder being full. Here’s how to resolve this issue: [step…