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In the modern world phishing emails are a fact of life for everyone from the richest companies to the poorest home user, and protecting against them by teaching your staff how to spot them is becoming less and less effective. Thieves are using AI tools to write perfect (often targeted Read more…
Recently a client had a problem opening the Outlook Web Ppp (OWA): SOMETHING WENT WRONG BootResult: configuration Back Filled Errors: Unhandled Rejection: Error: 500:undefined|undefined:undefinederr: Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa2.Server.Core.OwaUserHasNoMailboxAndNoLicenseAssignedException esrc: StartupDataet: ServerErrorestack: Error: 500at Object.w [as createStatusErrorMessage] (https://res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/owamail/hashed-v1/scripts/owa.mailindex.487dd620.js:1:1040) at https://res.public.onecdn.static.microsoft/owamail/hashed-v1/scripts/owa.mailindex.487dd620.js:1:159827st: 500ehk: X-OWA-Errorefe: YT4P288CA0072, YQBPR0101CA0030 emsg: UserHasNoMailboxAndNoLicenseAssignedError This is telling you the user does not Read more…
If you have been in HR or Teams Admin you may have seen that Teams does not reflect changes to existing user accounts very quickly. Sometimes changes take weeks to be shown on other users Teams and that can certainly cause you problems as staff start screaming that their title, Read more…
Microsoft is moving to a one year lifecycle on all of its client agents like Azure Entra Connect and Azure File Sync. Fortunately, Azure File Sync SHOULD upgrade itself 3 weeks before it expires. If you want to know how to setup Azure File Sync, we have just the short Read more…
Because of the Browser Wars of the 2000’s, internet browsers have become a “personal statement” but in real life, all of the current browsers perform very well in most applications. Here are some recent benchmarks (higher number is better) you might find useful. Note they are all quite close, but Read more…
Now that most companies have moved most of their servers to cloud, many are considering running user computers in the cloud. One of the many issues that come up with this migration is the cost. QUICK MATH: As you can see in the information below, a normal user desktop will Read more…
The brown box icon on some of your icons relate to OneDrive and what is now called “FILES ON DEMAND”. OneDrive’s Files On-Demand feature allows you to access all your files in OneDrive without having to download them and use storage space on your device. That icon came with a Read more…
Understanding OneDrive icons is crucial for managing your files effectively. Here’s a breakdown of all OneDrive icons: Sync Status Icons: Other OneDrive Icons:
A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients inbox, all was happy. Unfortunately scumbags hackers and thieves decided to take Read more…
Explore how office 365 encryption works within exchange online mail flow and the microsoft exchange server environment. This comprehensive guide helps you understand data protection measures and exchange server fundamentals when sending emails between Outlook clients and Exchange Online servers. 0:00 Introduction0:20 Outlook to Outlook Encryption1:10 When is Encryption Not Read more…
UPDATED: Feb 3 2025 In 2025 the world of so called Generative AI is fast changing and very confusing to most people. There are new products seemingly every day and they many of them have similar names. Some are from companies we all know and some are from startups. Some Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
Host Caching in Azure came from SCSI RAID controllers with RAM on them, when we had physical machines. The idea is that the disk does not have to wait for everything to be read or written onto the disk before continuing, because the RAID controller has it queue in its Read more…
We recently had a client who wanted to audit their Azure users. They wanted a list containing After several hours of polishing, mostly by our script guru Khalid Abdullahi, we came up with the script below.
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
Yesterday we had client with many IP and DNS problems and the screenshot below was taken after we cleaned up about half of them. As you can see, 168.63.129.16 is used both as a DHCP server and as a DNS FORWARDER, and the name shows up as <UNABLE TO RESOLVE>. Read more…