In Office 365 two factor authentication (2FA), App Password is used for older versions of Microsoft Outlook or for non Microsoft email clients on devices like MACs or smart phones. After enforcing 2FA in Office 365 and if you are trying to configure Outlook 2016 for email, and Outlook keeps rejecting the password that you […]
If you have Azure AD Connector with Azure Office 365 and want to force Sync AD with Azure when you have just created a new user, start PowerShell on the server that has Azure AD Connect installed and type: import-Module ADSync Get-ADSyncScheduler Start-ADSyncSyncCycle -PolicyType Delta
1- In Windows run PowerShell as an admin 2- Install PowerShell v2 if not installed: Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement 3- Import Exchange Online Management module: Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement For Windows 11 you might have to allow running scripts because running scripts is disabled by default, run this command to allow running scripts. Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned 4- Connect to […]
Open Exchange PowerShell on the Exchange server Run the following command (replace *.domainname below with the domain name) New-ExchangeCertificate -KeySize 2048 -PrivateKeyExportable $true -SubjectName “CN= Microsoft Exchange Server Auth Certificate” -DomainName “*.domainname” -FriendlyName “Microsoft Exchange Server Auth Certificate” -Services SMTP Answer No to over-write Write down the certificate thumpprint Type: $date = Get-Date Type: […]
Below is the site used to create or delete Microsoft Office 365 App Password needed for Multi Factor Authentication used in conjunction with non-Microsoft Office apps like native mail clients on smart phones, MAC mail or even older versions of Microsoft Outlook. https://aka.ms/mysecurityinfo
If the self-assigned VMware esxi 6.0 SSL Certificate expired on a Host and displaying a warning or an error in vCenter on the Host, you will need to renew that SSL Certificate. The certificate can’t be renewed through the VMware vSphere client, but can be renewed via the Web Client but unfortunately that would require […]
We were in the process of migrating mailboxes on-premise Exchange 2013 running on Windows Server 2012 to office 365 and while installing the Hybrid Configuration Wizard we were getting the following error. PowerShell failed to invoke ‘New-FederationTrust’: Unable to access the Federation Metadata document from the federation partner. Detailed information: “The underlying connection was closed: […]
When trying to move a mailbox from one Exchange server 2008/2010/2013 to another or from Database to another you get the error message below. Fixing it is easy if you have used ASDIEdit before. Basically you are going to reset the Exchange Mailbox Move Values… Sample Error: Data migrated: Migration rate: Error: MigrationTransientException: Failed to […]
When you click on a web/html link in email Google Chrome or the default Internet Browser opens up the link plus two tabs. The two tabs would say: “—use-spdy%3Doff’s server IP address could not be found” -AND- “—disable-http2’s server IP address could not be found” Solution: Your Windows PC is infected with a malware. […]
There are two traditional ways to move physical machines to Hyper-V virtual machine using Microsoft Tools. 1- Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter When you try to convert a Windows server 2012 for example from physical to a VM, you might get the following error: Microsoft Virtual machine Converter encountered an error while attempting to convert the […]