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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FirstWare DynamicGroup – Part 1: a small tutorial

by A.K.DynamicGroup, FirstWare, Microsoft Active DirectoryPosted on One Comment

Some time ago a company named FirstAttribute asked me to write an blogpost about their outcoming software. So here is the result of my decision ;-). At the beginning I had been a little bit incredulous. After testing some things inside my lab, the software worked pretty fine so I’m glad to write these lines. …

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Bulk change SIP address for special active directory users

by A.K.hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft active directory, PowershellPosted on 14 Comments

Lot of customers in small and medium businesses are using CTI Software for calling and connecting their PC with telephone. In most cases the software is connected to active directory and it’s using or maybe adding the SIP attribute to “proxyaddresses” attribute. Sometimes these software copies UPN (userprincipalname), but often this is not the same …

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