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During a migration from an on-premises Exchange environment to Exchange Online, I found an issue where meeting requests for a room mailbox were not accepted automatically. This only happened with users who were migrated. After logging in onto a room mailbox, I found this error: “Your calendar couldn’t be checked to see whether this event …
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In Internet Information Services 10 (IIS 10) in Windows Server 2016, it’s possible to enable access to an IIS webpage for Active Directory Users and Groups. In case your website does not have integrated security, it’s possible to make use of Active Directory security groups for securing your website. This functionlaity uses the Windows Authentication. …
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Just a small reminder for myself (and you): If you ever need to enable RDP (mstsc) on a Windows 10 machine, and you can’t get to the System control panel item, use Powershell to enable RDP: # Enable Remote Desktop (Get-WmiObject Win32_TerminalServiceSetting -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices).SetAllowTsConnections(1,1) | Out-Null (Get-WmiObject -Class “Win32_TSGeneralSetting” -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices -Filter “TerminalName=’RDP-tcp'”).SetUserAuthenticationRequired(0) | Out-Null …
Today was a special today. I -finally- upgraded to Windows 10 1709. Fall Creators update has reached ITExperience! Woohoo! ;-) Together with that update, I was also updated to the latest Windows Defender Security Center with lots of improvements. And it was this update that notified me of a nasty coinminer virus: Trojan:HTML/Brocoiner!rfn My Windows Defender …
The larger an IT organization is the more struggling you face when needing changes in Active Directory. An action that technically takes 60 seconds to complete may take a few days if you have to comply with the customer procedures. This is for example the case when you need to add a custom user Principal …