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A Comprehensive Guide to Backing Up System State for Active Directory Forest Recovery When managing an Active Directory (AD) environment, ensuring you have robust backup and recovery strategies is essential. One crucial aspect is backing up the system state, which plays a pivotal role in recovering your AD forest in case of failure. This guide … Read more
In today’s digital landscape, safeguarding sensitive information is paramount for businesses of all sizes. With the rise of remote work and cloud-based collaboration, ensuring data protection has become more challenging yet critical. Microsoft’s Office 365 offers a robust solution through its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities. In this blog, we’ll explore the significance of DLP … Read more
In the realm of Active Directory management, maintaining a streamlined and efficient infrastructure is paramount. Whether you’re consolidating servers, decommissioning outdated hardware, or optimizing network performance, demoting a domain controller requires careful planning and execution to ensure minimal disruption to your organization’s operations. Understanding Domain Controller Demotion A domain controller in Active Directory plays a … Read more
In the realm of Windows server management, Active Directory stands as the bedrock for centralized authentication, authorization, and directory services. Understanding its intricacies, especially when it comes to Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles, is crucial for maintaining a healthy and efficient directory infrastructure. FSMO roles are specialized tasks assigned to specific domain controllers within … Read more
Microsoft has recently announced an exciting update for its Microsoft 365 suite: the public preview of High-Volume Email. This new feature is designed to cater to organizations that need to send large quantities of emails, ensuring they can do so efficiently and reliably. Here’s a closer look at what this update entails and how it … Read more
In any organization, managing personnel changes is crucial, especially when it comes to administrative tasks like maintaining Outlook calendars and meetings. One common challenge faced is handling recurring meetings scheduled by employees who have left the organization. In Office 365 Exchange Online, these meetings continue to recur unless explicitly managed, which can lead to confusion … Read more
Microsoft Stopped SMTP from sending emails on PORT 25. A shocking update from Microsoft was released in March 2022 where the SMTP relay stopped working on Porta 25. What we found:Port 25 is stopped working with Azure VMs What configured:As others in the IT sector industry have configured Relay for sending an alert, notice, and … Read more
What is DMARC? Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is a free and open technical specification that is used to authenticate an email by aligning SPF and DKIM mechanisms. By having DMARC in place, domain owners large and small can fight business email compromise, phishing, and spoofing. With DMARC you can tell the world how to handle the unauthorized use of your … Read more
Paragraph Intune Autopilot – invalid client error failed%20to%20authenticate%20user After the user credentials are validated in the Intune Autopilot enrollment, the following error message comes up. invalid client error failed%20to%20authenticate%20user. The detailed error is as below. Something went wrongLooks like we can’t connect to the URL for your organization’s MDM terms of use. Try again or … Read more