Office 365 Business name changes the Second (to Microsoft 365)

by A.K.common, hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office 365Posted on No Comments

Microsoft product group decided to change the names of smaller business products in the office 365 universe. This change takes affect on April 21, 2020 (automatically). First of all here are the new names (offical blogpost): Office 365 Business Essentials -> Microsoft 365 Business BasicOffice 365 Business Premium -> Microsoft 365 Business StandardOffice 365 Business …

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Windows Server DomainController find LDAP binds

by A.K.common, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft active directory, Powershell, securityPosted on 10 Comments

Some time ago Microsoft announced the changing of default domain controller behavior for ldap and ldap signing. See LINK.This affects every supported version of Windows Server (from 2008R2 till 2019). There is another LINK ADV190023 with detailed explanation. I think there should be no discussion to change your domaincontroller to ldap signing only. But what …

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Connect local explorer to Microsoft Teams files

by A.K.common, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, microsoft teamsPosted on No Comments

UPDATE 04/04/2020: the newest teams version gives you a small button to sync, this uses the same link in sharepoint. But you can use Sharepoint version also. Teams is a really cool collaboration software from Microsoft, but some things are kind of inconvenient. Lot of customers ask me how to sync the files from teams …

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Office 365 E-Mail forward attack via inboxrules in user mailboxes

by A.K.common, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office 365Posted on No Comments

NOTE: you can also use the code on exchange onpremises 2010 and aboveA customer called me two weeks ago, that he got the feedback from his customer that he is sending some strange mails. So I had a look at the O365 security and clompliance center. After searching some reports I found out, that every …

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Fill AD groups with content from txt files (users can manage AD groups without AD console)

by A.K.common, Microsoft active directory, Microsoft Active Directory, PowershellPosted on No Comments

Some time ago a customer asked me to create a small powershell script which can read users from text files and add them to special Active Directory groups once a day via scheduled task. The goal is letting some “admin” users change AD groups via text file by adding the SamAccountName to these text files, …

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