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If you work with Microsoft Azure cloud services you will run into Azure Locks at some point. Azure locks can really mess up your maintenance plans and limit what staff can do. If you are new to Azure, watch our Azure From Zero To Hero In 1 Hour Tutorial. We Read more…
Azure Soft Delete a way to protect backup data from accidental or malicious deletion. Put simply, if you delete something like a Virtual Machine. It will be kept in Soft Delete for 14 days. You can think of Soft Delete as self emptying recycle bin. Soft Delete is on by Read more…
In today’s high tech world we are all inundated with acronyms but in the new world of cloud technologies so many of the acronyms sound the same. We have covered PaaS, IaaS, SaaS in several other articles in the past but this one is designed for non-techs. This is part Read more…
If you are new to licensing Microsoft products you are no doubt overwhelmed by the similarity of names Microsoft uses for its cloud products. In someway all of these relate to what the industry calls VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and we have creates a free 30 minute “Zero to Read more…
If a user is receiving a 550 5.7.520 email bounce relating to External Forwarding. The problem is likely related to the default Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online Exchange Online Protection Anti Spam filters. Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: <User> (<user email>) Your message wasn’t delivered because the Read more…
Sometime you have to work with large lists in Excel and you need to know if some specific text is in any of the cells. In this video we explore Microsoft Excel “Functions” to have it search the cells for you. Specifically, we explain and demonstrate the FIND and COUNTIF Read more…
In this video we explain and demonstrate how to setup a quarantine email notification in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. This is the second of our two part series on setting up the email quarantine in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. In the first segment we explain the step by step process Read more…
In this short video we explain and demonstrate how to whitelist email domains or specific senders or email that contains some specific text in Microsoft 365 Exchange Online: The commands used in this Microsoft365 / Office365 safe senders video are: A message header > includes any of these words > Read more…
We are all so busy it is easy to not notice new features that will make our lives easier. Here is a short explanation of just 8 improvements to Microsoft Teams that I think you will find value in: Teams Co-organizer Meeting Role added. “(Co-organizers are) …granted most of the Read more…
We explain and demonstrate all aspects of SharePoint Online and start by assuming you know very little about SharePoint. By the time your are done watching, you should know: What Is SharePoint How To Use SharePoint How to Administer SharePoint This is a complete starter SharePoint tutorial. Introduction 0:00 SharePoint Read more…
In recent builds of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft has added a MOST RECENT SIGN IN feature and that is very helpful if you think someone else may have been checking your email. To see the last time someone logged into your email, just click FILE and look at the INFO section Read more…
Historically you have needed to create an email signature in Outlook on every device you used, but now Microsoft has starting rolling out roaming signatures: We are running the prerelease versions of Outlook so the exact text may change for you but as you can see in the screenshot above, Read more…
If you are a Microsoft 365 administrator you should be always digging into the new features or next changes and the best way to do that is to skim Microsoft’s Weekly Digest: Microsoft Service Updates email. That email contains a VIEW MORE link which is supposed to take you to Read more…
There are many reasons you may want to setup a shared mailbox, but the one we see the most often has to do with licensing. Shared Mailboxes in Microsoft 365 do NOT require a license, although all users that connect to that shared mailbox DO require a license. Note that Read more…
We were trying to set up a phpBB bulletin board to send email using an existing Microsoft 365 Exchange email account but kept having it error out (Administration Control Panel > Maintenance tab > Error Log) with: 451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX4 There were several Read more…
After spending quite a few hours trying to correctly configure the email on a phpBB forum (for our Commodore.ca website users) we found ourselves stuck on the following error showing in the logs (Administration Control Panel > Maintenance tab > Error Log): 1301 <- 554 5.2.252 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SendAsDeniedException.MapiExceptionSendAsDenied After much research Read more…