Note – this method no longer works. Sorry. We had a couple of incorrectly named tenants in our partner portal. The name was correct for everything on the tenant’s side, only wrong on the partner portal. A helpful MS support agent sent me this which sorted it out. • Symptom – Change Customer display name on … Read more
I set myself what I thought would be a simple automation task today. I want to start syncing our clients Azure AD to Autotask to automatically create contacts. Will save an extra step when we onboard a new client or user. To do this we have to do two things, register an app in the … Read more
Going live tomorrow (21st April 2020) Microsoft are renaming some of the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 products. I guess this is what happens when the marketing department have too much time on their hands. They are renaming all the Business Office 365 range into a Microsoft 365 naming convention. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/blog/2020/03/30/new-microsoft-365-offerings-small-and-medium-sized-businesses/ Office 365 Business Essentials is now … Read more
Microsoft have launched an update to Teams that allows you to change your background. But what if you don’t want to use one of their preinstalled images? Simply copy the image of your choice to: %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads And it will be available to choose. If % appdata% doesn’t work then it will be something like: C:\Users\adam\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads … Read more
Setting a decent password policy has long been a none of contention. IT people want passwords to be secure, and users want something that they can remember. Net result is that a lot of password policies force users to use something that is hard to remember, but comparatively easy to crack. Having hard to remember … Read more
I got fed up with using other people’s pages to check public IP addresses, so have put our own checker on our main website: https://sfax.co.uk/ip Google will tell you your IP address if you google “what is my ip address” but when you are on unfamiliar systems you may find the default search engine is … Read more
We sometimes find the need to delete all files from a folder over a certain age. For example we have a folder that our network scanner dumps its scans in. Ideally everyone would file their scans straight away, but it doesn’t always happen. So we have the following script running every hour that removes all … Read more
It is important to have the Windows Time Service on a DC on the network pointing to an external NTP source to keep time in sync. There is an article here which tells you how: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/816042/how-to-configure-an-authoritative-time-server-in-windows-server I’ve condensed it here to a reg file you can create and run. Copy the following code into a … Read more
DFSR replication of sysvol is much more reliable, and NTFRS is being deprecated after Windows Server 2016. This is how to migrate to DFSR. The information here is gleamed from : https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2014/06/25/streamlined-migration-of-frs-to-dfsr-sysvol/ and the long version: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd640019%28v=WS.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Check forest functional level using domain.msc and raise if below 2008. Force a replication with: Repadmin /syncall /force … Read more
We’ve had a spate of PCs filling up their disks recently, and it seems to stem from a bug in Windows update. The issue occurs because an accumulated update log file grows, and generates a series of CAB files “cab_xxx_x” in the temp folder (normally c:\windows\temp). The issue isn’t new, I found references to it … Read more