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# Disable sleep on macbooks when closing the lid sudo pmset disablesleep 1 # Prevent auto-start of macbooks when opening the lid sudo nvram BootPreference=%01 # Macbook shutdown without a prompt [Option] + click on 'Shutdown' ... Read More
ADFS Smart Lockout handles authentication requests, blocking users when getting suspicious activities from certain IP addresses, while allowing valid users continue to use their accounts. Doing this without locking the actual AD user account ... Read More
The Issue PowerShell - Install-PackageProvider: No match found error when installing PowerShell modules | FIX ! In a new deployment of Windows Server 2016 or 2019 when using the Install-Module [xxx] command you might be prevented with the following error ... Read More
There might be scenarios when cutting ADFS and falling back to cloud authentication is urgently required. For example, when our on-premises ADFS authenticator servers go down - possibly due to a network outage - we want our users to be ... Read More
Pass-through Authentication is somewhat in between the other two options when it comes to configurability. While it is so much simpler to configure than ADFS (same steps are followed when setting up PHA), however the same seamless SSO is provided ... Read More
To convert users from on-prem synced to fully cloud managed type, we have two options. One is to cut DirSync altogether, which will put users to a soft-deleted state from which we restore them. The other way is to only ... Read More
If you want a user to be fully customizable, editable in the cloud you can convert it to cloud managed type. Note that if you do that, naturally no local AD changes will be synchronized to the cloud version of ... Read More
Migrating users from on-prem to Office365 (onboarding) and from the cloud to on-premises (offboarding) is easier done by using the Shell. The migration batches are created from a csv file. After the batch is ready, we start the batch, which ... Read More
In this article we follow the main direction of our earlier guide where we detailed a proper Exchange 2019 to Office 365 migration, but without PTA or ADFS (so without proper single sign-on) configured. This time we go through the ... Read More
Azure AD Connect synchronizes changes to user accounts every 30 minutes by default. This frequency applies only to item attributes, not user passwords. Password hashes are suppoed to be synchronized instantly. In certain cases, you might want to force a ... Read More
In this article we are migrating our alwayshotcafe.com email system to the Office365 cloud. For details on how the on-prem environment was built, please visit the corresponding article here: How to Install a new Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server – Step ... Read More
Scenario: we have a dedicate mailbox that receives a regular report attached to an email every morning. We want that attachment to be saved to a specific folder on a server, and move the message away from the Inbox to ... Read More
This article guides you through the steps of setting up a proper load balancer for Exchange 2019, 2016 or 2013 client connections on a pfSense firewall, using HAProxy ... Read More
Basic CAS connection path In this article we address the issue of client access during Exchange maintenance. By default, all client access services are configured with the owner server's name on Exchange servers after installation. Let's take a simple example ... Read More
In this guide we take a look on how to create a PFX file, if you need just the opposite: extracting the private, public keys from a PFX file, follow the tutorial here ... Read More
A pfx file is technically a container that contains the private key, public key of an SSL certificate, packed together with the signer CA's certificate all in one in a password protected single file. Here are the steps to extract ... Read More
1. CAS - stateless goodness! This article is solely dealing with the Exchange CAS array (client access services), more precisely with Outlook connectivity. A client has multiple ways to access his/her mailbox on an Exchange server. They can use the ... Read More
