When a user leaves a organization, first step is to block user’s sign-in from Microsoft 365 admin center. This way user will not be able to login and blocked from accessing any Microsoft 365 services like accessing outlook, sign in to their MDM device, accessing any documents stored in Onedrive …
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or legal purposes. It consists of several towns and rural areas around it. Country is divided in to many county’s, If you want to look for the county border lines from Google maps, it generally by default does …
One of the most useful cmdlet in powershell is Install-Module. It downloads one or more modules from a repository, and installs them on the local computer. You just have to specify the name of the module after this cmdlet, if the module exists in the repository, it gets installed on …
You can deploy any powershell script or a batch file to devices which are enrolled in to Azure AD and managed by Intune. All latest Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices have built-in management client which communicates with Intune to run any management tasks which are assigned to that device. …
Distribution list is a group of email addresses where you can send an email to this group and everyone listed in this group will receive the email. Instead of sending an email Individually to each user, its best to create a Distribution list and add users to this distribution list …
You can create recurring meeting schedule in Google Calendar or a Single one off event. However, there could be a scenario when the events are no longer happening and you wish to remove it from your Google Calendar. Deleting a recurring events from Google calendar is easy compared to if …
You can deploy any batch file or a powershell script using Intune. In this blog post, we will be deploying a simple batch file using Microsoft Intune which will be to start the process of removing Microsoft defender Antivirus definiton to previous version. All our organization devices are managed by …
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise level endpoint security solution which can prevent, detect, investigate and respond to advanced threats. Microsoft Defender Antivirus is one of the major component of this whole security platform. Microsoft defender Anti-Virus or simply Defender Anti-virus is built into windows and works with Microsoft …
Most of the users are reporting that their Desktop shortcuts and Pinned Icons are not working any more. When users click on the Pinned Icons they receive a pop-up message “This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if …
Microsoft Print to PDF printer is a useful feature on Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices. Its not a physical printer but a driver based Virtual printer which can be used to convert documents to PDF files. For example. A Microsoft Word file can be converted to a PDF file …
To make sure Zoom meeting window stays on top of all other windows, you need to enable Keep on top setting from the zoom meeting app. This setting is also commonly referred to as Always on Top setting. It can be enabled on a Windows or a Mac device during …
Microsoft Paint is a simple graphics editor which is by default installed on all editiion of Microsoft windows. The Text tool in Paint app can be used to add text to Images. To write text in Paint app, you can use available fonts installed on your device. However, if you …
Zoom is a communications platform that allows users to connect with video, audio, phone, and chat. Using Zoom requires an internet connection and a supported device. There are some zoom settings which really help to make sure meeting goes smooth without any unnecessary background noise. By default when you join a …
Onedrive is a Microsoft cloud service that provides a location for you to store your personal files. For most subscription plans, default storage space for each user’s OneDrive is 1TB which can further be increased to 5TB depending upon your Microsoft 365 subscription plan. When users in your organization are …
You can manage sharepoint online using sharepoint admin center which is a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage sharepoint sites, lists, documents and sharepoint settings. However, all of it can be managed using command line as well. Using command line to manage sharepoint online is much quicker specially when you …
External sharing is switched on by default for entire sharepoint enviornment and all the sites. Users can share the documents with third party vendors, customers or any external domain. Therefore, its a good security practice to disable External sharing globally and then later enable it when you are ready and …
I have recently created a folder in a sharepoint online document library. This folder will be used to store confidential information. Only specific people should have access to this folder. By default if a folder is created in a sharepoint library, it will inherit its permissions from sharepoint site. Therefore, …
I was recently working on a task to send an email with attachment using Microsoft Graph API. I included the Microsoft Graph API script code at the end of my powershell script. The script sends an email to a given email address with attachment and also have a table of …
I recently setup an Epson Ecotank ET-2810 printer and connected to my windows PC over Wi-Fi. It did took me some time to connect but it was not difficult in the end. I manage to get it connected to a Windows 10 PC. The steps for connecting Epson Wifi printer …
In this blog post, we will see how to connect to sharepoint online using Connect-PnPOnline powershell cmdlet. You can use this approach to connect to sharepoint online when you are creating an unattended powershell script. Steps given in this blog post will enable you to create a connection to sharepoint …
Our goal is to connect to sharepoint online using an Azure AD service principal from Powershell. You can use this approach to connect to sharepoint online when you are creating an unattended powershell script. Steps given in this blog post will enable you to create a connection to sharepoint online …
Powershell is widely used in automating simple to complex tasks on Windows and Linux operating systems. Its a object based shell which was launched in 2006. You can save a lot of time by automating repetitive and mundane daily administrative tasks using powershell. Powershell script contains commands / cmdlets, functions, …
There are two power models in Windows 10, S3 and S0 Low Power idle (Modern Standby). Modern Standby in Windows 10 provides Instant On/Off Experience like smartphones. Modern Standby enables S0 low power idle power plan which keeps your laptop or desktop in lowest power mode and also allow apps …
Transport Layer Security (TLS) – TLS protocol is used to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. SSL and TLS are both cryptographic protocols but because SSL protocols does not providers sufficient level of security compared to TLS, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 have been deprecated. TLS 1.0 …
Transport Layer Security (TLS) – TLS protocol is used to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. SSL and TLS are both cryptographic protocols but because SSL protocols does not providers sufficient level of security compared to TLS, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 have been deprecated. TLS 1.0 …
Transport Layer Security (TLS) – TLS protocol is used to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. SSL and TLS are both cryptographic protocols but because SSL protocols does not providers sufficient level of security compared to TLS, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 have been deprecated. TLS 1.0 …
Transport Layer Security (TLS) – TLS protocol is used to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. SSL and TLS are both cryptographic protocols but because SSL protocols does not providers sufficient level of security compared to TLS, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 have been deprecated. TLS 1.0 …
If you plan to keep your existing on-prem exchange server then it can be used / utilized as a SMTP Relay server. Else, if you plan to decommission the exchange server for good, you can utilize Office365 as a SMTP Relay server to relay the emails. There are three ways …
Whether users are provisioned via Azure AD Connect Sync or directly on office 365 cloud (In-Cloud Users). We need to assign the licenses to users to get certain features and functionality. For working with Exchange Online, Once you have sync’ed the user to office365, you can assign appropriate license (e.g. …
Please note there are below requirements before starting the installation / upgrade to Windows 11: Processor 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores on a compatible 64-bit processor or System on a Chip (SoC). RAM 4 gigabyte (GB). Storage 64 GB or larger storage device Note: See below under “More information on …
As you can sync bookmarks, history, passwords and other browser data in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or any other browser, you can sync it while using Brave Browser as well. The process and steps to sync is not exactly the same across all these browsers. In this blog post, we …
You can easily deploy a desktop shortcut using Intune on the desktop of any Windows 10 or Windows 11 device. However, If the deployed shortcut is broken and no longer working. You may want to delete that broken desktop shortcut. Users may not be able to delete the desktop shortcut …
There are various way to deploy an application using Microsoft Intune. Most of the applications generally create a desktop shortcut Icon for users to launch the application easily. However, some of the third party / custom / In-house applications do not create a desktop shortcut. In that case, you can …
Windows 11 is the latest client operating system from Microsoft. You may have updated your Windows Operating system from Windows 10 to Windows 11 or its just a bad day when audio suddenly stopped working. In this blog post, we will see how to troubleshoot audio on your windows 11 …
When you are creating documents using Google docs, you may have noticed that the First letter of each paragraph is automatically capitalized. You can use Caps Lock button on the keyboard to turn on capitalization while typing / writing a document or you can press Shift and type the letters …
When you are in a Zoom meeting you want to avoid any awkward momemts and maintain some privacy with respect to your meeting background. This feature is widely used in Zoom video meetings and its very easy to configure as well. Apart from blur option, you can also apply video …
What is #OpentoWork in LinkedIn When you are looking for a job and want to update your LinkedIn profile to let the Recruiters know that you are available for new opportunities. You can Enable Open to Work status on your LinkedIn Profile. You can configure Open to Work status for …
Google launched Google Lens on October 4, 2017. Its is an AI powered vision based computing technology developed by Google. Using camera of your device and Internet connection, you can find any relevant and useful information using Google Lens technology. Translate feature of Google Lens does not even require Internet …
This article shows the steps on how to setup Citrix User Profiles using Citrix UPM. If you are using FSLogix then you can configure user profiles using blog post: How to Setup Citrix User Profiles using FSLogix. To reduce network load and speed up the user logon process, you can …
This article shows the steps on how to setup Citrix User Profiles using Citrix FSLogix. If you want to use Citrix UPM for configuration of user profiles then you can use this step by step guide: How to Setup Citrix User Profiles using Citrix UPM To reduce network load and …
This article shows the steps on How to Setup Folder redirection in Citrix. If you want to configure Citrix user profiles using FSLogix you can use the step by step guide: How to Setup Citrix User Profiles using FSLogix. If you want to configure Citrix user profiles using Citrix UPM …
When you are using Azure AD Connect to sync the users to Azure Active Directory / Office365, the management of the User’s account is done by using On-Premise Active Directory. Therefore, if you logon to Exchange Online and double-click on the mailbox and then select / check “Hide from address …
Overview Recently I got this error message when I updated Redis Object Cache wordpress plugin on my site. As soon as I enabled Redis Object Cache, I got the error message: “There has been a critical error on your website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.” “A foreign …
You can easily block USB drive on all Intune managed corporate devices by creating a Policy on Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Center. There are different ways to create a policy to block USB drive or removable storage device. Blocking of USB drive access is must for every organization as it …
When you are trying to authenticate with Azure container registry using sudo az acr login command, you may receive below error message: linuxusr@dockerhostvm01:~$ sudo az acr login –name acr001Unable to get AAD authorization tokens with message: Please run ‘az login’ to setup account.Unable to get admin user credentials with message: …
Shared channels in Microsoft Teams is used to collaborate with people inside and outside the organization. You can invite people who are not in the team. Only users who are either owners or members of the shared channel can access the channel. While guests (people with Azure Active Directory guest …
Public Preview and Developer preview provides early access to unreleased features in Microsoft Teams. You can test new features before it becomes general availability (GA) and analyse it to see if the new features will be useful for the organization. Preview feature can be enabled per Team user or for …
I recently tried to Reset my Windows 11 PC by clicking on to Settings -> System -> Recovery -> Reset PC button but it failed and displayed an error message “Could not find the recovery environment” Insert your Windows installation or recovery media, and restart your PC with the media. …
Overview In this blog post, we will see how to migrate all mailboxes from GoDaddy to Microsoft 365. GoDaddy provides Domain Registration and DNS services but in addition to that you can also get Email services that creates user mailboxes. You can choose from the available Email Plans like Email …
Overview There could be several reasons for recreating or resetting an outlook mail profile. Reseting a Mail Profile sometimes fixes a lot of Outlook related issues like slowness in sending and receiving emails, corruption of the mail profile, Global address book (GAL) Issues, Calendar sync issues etc. As all email …
Recently I tried to connect to Sharepoint online using Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet and received below error message. In this blog post, we will see alternative ways to connect using this command which utilized interactive login methods. In below screenshot, you can see the command along with the error message. Error Message …
Create a Sharepoint Teams Site A Teams site can be created to collaborate with other team members, share documents with each other and to work on a specific project. I recently created few microsoft teams sites on Sharepoint Online and my requirement is to create an Azure Active Directory Security …
MIMECAST DIRECTORY SYNCHRONIZATION ERRORS ✅ Fix Errors between Azure Active Directory and Mimecast. ✅ Connection Error – Error opening file of directory data (using connection – Azure AD Directory Sync). To Start the Directory Synchronization. Login on Mimecast Admin Portal and click on Administration -> Services and then click on …
DNS Aging and Scavenging DNS Aging DNS Aging is a process of identifying the stale resource records from the DNS Server. Stale resource records create issues in the name resolution (by creating duplicate DNS records), unnecessary space utilization, degradation of the DNS server performance. It keeps track of the time …
FIX BELOW ERRORS DURING WINDOWS 11 INSTALLATION ✅ “We couldn’t install Windows 11” We’ve set your PC back to the way it was right before you started installing Windows 11. 0x800F0830 – 0x2003 The Installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during INSTALL_UPDATES operation. Recently I have tried …
Overview Windows Package Manager or winget is a command-line tool which we can use to search, Install, upgrade, uninstall and configure applications on windows 10 systems. In this blog post, we will look at how to install Windows Package Manager and then see useful commands / switches which can be …
About the Task This week I received a request to create Microsoft 365 groups in bulk using Powershell. I tried to use New-UnifiedGroup command (part of EXO V2 Powershell Module) to create Microsoft 365 group which worked fine for creation of the group but this command did not create corresponding …
Summary Terraform graph command is used to generate visual representation of either a configuration or execution plan. The command generates a DOT format Output. In the post we will see how to generate an image / nice graphical representation of Terraform resources and their dependencies using the DOT file we …
While working with Atom text editor and writing your code, you may have seen a vertical line on the screen. It sometimes looks like there are multiple panes where there are difference workspaces but its part of the same code workspace area. If you want to get rid of this …
When you have a requirement where users are using their personal mobile devices to access the corporate emails and other Microsoft office apps. You want to make sure the data in these apps is secure and also prevent data leak. Application Protection Policies (APP) Policies can be applied to the …
While writing a code using VSCode, there are lots of settings to configure to make it easy for the programmers to write the code faster and make it readable. Indentation is a must in every code you write to make the code readable. Using VSCode settings (Shortcut: Ctrl + ,) …
Cisco anyconnect is an application used for Point to site VPN Connection. Which means that this application is used to establish a VPN connection from a remote machine to the Cisco Device which further provides a secure end to end encrypted connection to the internal office network. The application needs …
Requirement I got a request from client to deploy their organization wallpaper and lock screen image across all the domain joined workstations. Domain joined workstations also include the laptops which are not in office but connect via VPN. I have created one GPO which covers both the scenarios. Its a …
Requirement: I got the requirement from one of our client to uninstall WinZip software from all users PCs. There were different versions of WinZip installed on the systems. I have targeted WinZip 24.0.14033 and WinZip 24.0.13650 and i will show you how to uninstall these two versions by creating MS …
First step is to create favorites in below format. You can customize it as per your requirement to include Intranet Pages or Internal Web Portal URL. Below favorites text format will be used when you will create a Policy to configure Favorites for Microsoft Edge. Please make sure URL and …
Background: Recently I came across an issue where a Citrix VDA’s version 1912 CU2 was joined to Azure as Hybrid Azure AD Join Device which was not allowing users to launch applications. As soon as someone would launch an application, VDA state was getting changed to Unregistered state. We have …
You can manually sync a Sharepoint teams site document library to your windows 10 or Windows 11 device by accessing the Sharepoint teams site document library and clicking the Sync button. However, If there is a sharepoint document library which is used by everyone in that department or organization and …
Shared computer activation lets you deploy Microsoft 365 Apps to a computer in your organization that is accessed by multiple users. Shared computer activation is required for scenarios where multiple users share the same computer and the users are logging in with their own account. Normally, users can install and …
Even after setting Automatically admit people to “Everyone in your organization and federated organizations” and Allow dial-in users to bypass the lobby to Off in the meeting policy, External Users or guests are able to bypass the lobby and are able to join the meeting straight through. I had to …
Some of the apps are pre-installed with Windows 10 and not required by the end user. Therefore, these applications need to be removed. expressvpn 7.12.1.4 is one of the application. The below steps can be followed to uninstall any version of expressvpn installed on windows 10 systems. expressvpn app is …
I received an error while installation of an application with .msi extension. “The System administrator has set policies to prevent this installation“. Below screenshot is popped up from windows installer, even though i am logged on to the PC using local administrator credentials. System administrator has set policies to prevent …
There are numerous ways to deploy an app on Windows 10 workstation. I will be deploying an application using MSI Installer provided by the vendor. Download the application MSI Installer file from the Vendor web site and follow below process to deploy it on the target computers. I will be …
When you configure Apple enrollment on Microsoft Endpoint admin center (https://endpoint.microsoft.com), you must have configured Apple MDM Push certificate which is a prerequisites for configuration of Apple enrollment for Microsoft Intune. The Apple MDM Push certificate expiry is normally 365 days and when its near its expiry date you get …
If you have upgraded your Skype for Business users to Teams and want to update the Teams co-existence mode to “Teams Only” so that users can only use Teams but still join meetings hosted in Skype for Business. The Coexistence mode that is used determines both routing of incoming calls …
Once the certificate has been uploaded on the NetScaler in .crt and .key. Its very easy to download it back in the PFX format from the NetScaler. Please follow the below steps and download the certificate along with Private Key. Once Exported, you can save the Password Protected PFX in a secure location. Steps …
Unable to start the Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013 Services and it just gets stuck at the Starting status. You restart the Server multiple times but the status is still the same. Also, when you try to connect to the exchange management console, you are unable to connect and when trying from …
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Issue Description When a new user is created in On-Premise active directory which is then synced to Azure AD and a license has been assigned to the user, you get the error: This user’s on-premises mailbox hasn’t been migrated to Exchange Online. The Exchange Online mailbox will be available after migration …
Issue description: When you launch Microsoft Excel 2016 you get below error message: ‘BloombergUI.xla’ cannot be accessed. The file may be corrupted, located on a server that is not responding, or read-only Excel cannot access ‘BloombergUI.xla’. The document may be read-only or encrypted. When Excel is Opened -> Bloomberg Tab …
scp command allows files to be copied between two vmware ESXi hosts. It uses SSH for data transfer and provides the same authentication and level of security as SSH. In this blog post, we will see how to copy files between vmware ESXi hosts by usng SCP. We will also see how …
Recently worked on an issue where I was not able to remove resource tags from couple of resources using azure portal. The specific resource type was microsoft.insights\scheduledqueryrules. Selecting the resource and clicking on the three dots -> click Edit tags -> try to remove the tag, you will get a …
You can export Office365 users DisplayName, UsageLocation, UserPrincipalName, MFA Status, StrongAuthInfo, DefaultAuthMethod using powershell. The exported data will be in a CSV File which will list these details. Default MFA Method is useful when you want to know who in your company is using which MFA method to authenticate to …
When you launch Outlook and Teams on Windows 10 workstation, you may receive the below error: Your computer’s Trusted Platform Module has malfunctioned. If this error persists, contact your system administrator with the error code 80090016.More information: https://www.microsoft.com/wamerrors Microsoft Office Version being used Microsoft 365 MSO 16.0.13127.21062 (Microsoft 365 Apps …
In the previous post How to configure Azure Site Recovery, perform test failover and invoke disaster recovery failover – Part 2 – TechPress we have seen how to perform Test Failover using Azure Site Recovery. Also, we have seen how to clean up the test failover after verification of the …
In the last post How to configure Azure Site Recovery, perform test failover and invoke disaster recovery failover – Part 1 – TechPress i had explained on how you can configure Azure Site Recovery and configured the Virtual network for Test Failover and Failover. When you initiate Test Failover, Site …
Site Recovery service is a BCDR (Business continuity and disaster recovery) solution which keeps your azure workload running during outages. You can configure this service to replicate the workloads to secondary site. Secondary site could be referred to as DR site as well. Its a region other than your primary …
Azure Active Directory’s Application Proxy service provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications. After a single sign-on to Azure AD, users can access both cloud and on-premises applications through an external URL or an internal application portal. For example, Application Proxy can provide remote access and single sign-on to …
Export the Access Rights / Permissions assigned to All user mailboxes in Office365. Export the Access Rights / Permissions assigned to All Shared Mailboxes in Office365 Export the Access Rights / Permissions assigned to All Shared Mailboxes in Office365 (Another Variation to Export only relevant information) List the Access Rights / …
As we discussed management of azure resource tags using GUI and PowerShell in this post , we have updated the resource tags on existing resources. However, its a best practice to update the resource tags at the time of resource creation. You can create policies in azure and apply it …
You can use the tags to logically organize all the resources in Azure. Tag in azure is a name and value pair which can be applied using GUI or by using PowerShell. You can take the approach of GUI if there are not too many resources where you have to …
What is Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Volume shadow copy service in Windows operating system allows you to create consistent backups of open files and applications. You can create shadow copies of shared folders on your file server or Windows client OS on regular intervals. If any file has been …
Its a best practice to lock the workstation whenever you are stepping away from the desk, whether its for few minutes or few hours. But, we know that this practice is not 100% followed leaving the workstation not secured / exposed for information leak. Therefore, you can create a Group …
Recently i have been reported an issue where one of the user with SendAs permission on a shared mailbox tries to send an email from that shared mailbox in Microsoft Outlook, the email’s sent are being stored in Sent Items folder of main user mailbox instead of sent items folder …
In this post, I will show you how to add a user to the Local Administrators Group on the machines using GPO. Point to note that this procedure is not limited to adding a user to local Administrators group. You can use the process to rename, create or delete a …
Scenario Organization has moved all their mailboxes to the Exchange Online from On-Premise Exchange 2010 server. MX Record is cutover to office365 (inbound and outbound mail flow is moved to office365). Active Directory Synchronization is being used for Syncing the users to Azure Active Directory using Azure AD Connect. Requirement …
Recently came across an issue where we had applied the Mailbox Retention Policy for all the users but for some of the users, emails were not getting moved to Online Archive Mailbox. After investigating on this issue, it was identified that the retention hold was enabled on these users mailbox …
Summary: In this post, we will see how to enable Self Service Password Reset on Azure for Office365 Users and how its managed and synced back to On-Premise Active Directory. Description: SSPR includes features such as Password Change, reset, Unlock and writeback to on-premise Active Directory. License Requirement: As we …
Recently came across an issue on Office 365 Portal after clicking on a users with archiving enabled. The User’s account properties pane was showing an error message on the top of the screen. The error message is mentioned below. Please note the guid’s and correlation Id may be different in …
What if you have forgot the administrator password of the Cisco 2960 Switch and you try real hard to remember it and type the passwords but none of them work. This post will come to the rescue when you will have to recover the password without losing the running configuration. Also Read: …
Transport Layer Security (TLS) – TLS protocol is used to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications. SSL and TLS are both cryptographic protocols but because SSL protocols does not providers sufficient level of security compared to TLS, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 have been deprecated. TLS 1.0 …
When we type an email address in Outlook to send an email, Autocomplete feature provides a list of Recent People and Suggestions in the drop down list.The latest update provides up to 5 suggestions. If you want to delete an email ID from other suggestions list then there is no …
