If you have domains that do not send emails, you still need to lock them down so no spammers can spoof these domains to send emails. All you need is to add the following two DNS records to your domain’s DNS. First, a block-all SPF txt record: v=spf1 -all And a DMARC policy that rejects all email that fails SPF. […]
There might be a lot of tools out there that you can use to monitor a specific folder for any changes. But if it can be done in PowerShell, it could make things easier and more flexible. You can do all sorts of things when a change is being made to the folder, such as send an email notification or […]
For Windows computers, every shutdown or restart is logged in the Event Viewer so you know what exactly happened, whether it’s a system triggered reboot, or by a user specifically, or a restart because of a system or application crash. So, if you want to dig into this information, all you need is to open Event Viewer, head into System […]
The good news is that Microsoft Teams Room is distributed through the Microsoft Store so the updates to the app are installed from that automatically during nightly maintenance. But if needed, a manual update can be done as well. This document from Microsoft includes everything you need to know about the manual update process. However, here is the quick rundown […]
Whether you manage your mailbox well or not, there is a good chance where your mailbox will eventually fill up. When that happens, you can go through the options trying to clean up again. But a better option here is to utilize the Online Archiving feature that Microsoft 365 offers out of the box for free that provides users with […]
If you haven’t synced your local Active Directory to Microsoft 365 via Azure Cloud Connect, you can start here. If you have but haven’t enabled SSO to simplify the process, you are missing out on something big. With Azure AD SSO, you don’t have to type in your passwords to sign in to Azure AD, and most of the time, […]
After getting too many spam emails sent to the distribution group, it’s time to tighten things a bit and restrict these groups from getting emails from outside parties. For regular Microsoft 365 groups, you can simply go to the Exchange Dashboard, open the group, switch to the Settings tab, and uncheck the option “Allow external senders to email this group“. […]
It’s really easy if you need to make changes to the roaming profile path in Active Directory to multiple user accounts. All you need is to highlight them all, right-click and select Properties. But as you can see, it doesn’t have the Remote Desktop Service Profile tab. So how do you batch update this property to a large number of […]