Changing incorrectly named Tenant in M365 partner portal

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 Partner Center portal     •    Resolution – We informed you … Read more

Microsoft/Office 365 rename

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 Teams Background

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

Secure passwords

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

What is my IP Address?

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

Deleting files over a certain age

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

Syncing Windows Time service to an external source

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

Migrating from NTFRS to DFSR replication of Sysvol

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