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On March 30th 2020, Microsoft announced naming changes of Office 365 subscriptions for small and medium businesses. “…The Office suite is core to the Microsoft productivity experience, and that’s not changing. But over the last several years, our cloud productivity offering has grown well beyond what people traditionally think of Read more…
The main difference between Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Storage is the folder structure that is possible: Azure Blob Storage does not provide for folders; it is a flat structure Azure File Storage allows for folders just like any other file server Blob Storage is cheaper than File Storage Read more…
This is the “How Can I See the User/Member/Email addresses in a Dynamic Distribution Group” segment from our larger explanation of what Dynamic Distribution Lists are in Office 365 Hosted Exchange, How to Create and Manage an Office 365 Dynamic Distribution List, and How To Display The Users in Dynamic Read more…
If you have ever worked on Dynamic Distribution Lists (aka Dynamic Distribution Groups) in a hosted Exchange environment like Office 365, you will know that there is no method of listing the users emails in that distribution group, inside the Exchange web console. In the video below we explain: What Read more…
If you have a PowerPoint Addin macro it is likely in the a .PPAM file and that cannot be edited. .PPTM files can be edited so we explain how to open and copy the code from the .PPAM and place it into a new .PPTM file so you can make Read more…
If a user finds that their DIAL IN number in Teams is not showing in Teams Meeting invites, there are three things to do to solve it. If you know what you are doing and have run through the more obvious stuff, just scroll down to #3 to see how Read more…
If you had an Office product (like Visio or Project) installed with a license key and a different Office product licensed by an email address (like most corporate deployments of Office365), your Office may error out with: “we ran into a problem while trying to install the product key 0x80070005 Read more…
If you are an admin of the Office 365 tenant, you can easily add more licenses for Office, Visio, Project, BI, CRM or anything else and then assign them to your users. surf to admin.microsoft.com (which I always get to via portal.office.com so I don’t want to remember all of Read more…
If you work with Exchange you know that there is no way to search for email alias using the console. That can be very frustrating when you need to assign an alias to someone and Exchange Online tells you it is already in use. (We have the instructions for How Read more…
If you have Office365 ProPlus (aka Office 2016/2019) you will know that it updates constantly. Originally patches were released weekly but from 2018 one they are released monthly. To be clear, Office365 Pro Plus patches are released on the second Tuesday of each month (aka Patch Tuesday), just like Windows Read more…
If you have been running a network for a while, you likely are: using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or SCCM with WSUS to manage Windows patches and download them locally using local file shares for Office patching. Historically, this minimized network traffic but in recent versions of Windows 10, Read more…
If your WordPress site is stuck on: BRIEFLY UNAVAILABLE FOR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE. CHECK BACK IN A MINUTE the solution is FTP into your site and delete (or just rename) the .maintenance file in the root. CLICK TO EXPAND GRAPHIC: If problems still occur, rename the PLUGINS folder under WP-CONTENT. If Read more…
If you have enabled two factor authentication and/or reCaptcha in Wordfence but can no longer sign in because: VERIFICATION REQUIRED: Additional verification is required for login. Please check the email address associated with the account for a verification link. AND/OR The 2FA Code Could Not Be Validated. Please Try Logging Read more…
WordPress is the number one web management tool on the planet which makes it the largest target for hackers. If you have a WordPress web site you should be very concerned with security. Fortunately there are five fast and easy things you can do to dramatically improve your sites security posture: Read more…
We explain how to find and install the latest Office365 GPO Templates into your Active Directory. We also explain: Office365 templates are suffixed with “16” which is very confusing to many. Microsoft decided to end their GPO file naming with Office 2016, so Office 2016, Office 2019 and Office 365 Read more…
If your on-premise Exchange environment is in hybrid mode with Office 365 Hosted Exchange, you may find that email sent from mailboxes created onprem to mailboxes created in O365 Hosted Exchange is not received. The issue is that your on-prem Exchange is unaware of the cloud created mailboxes. The solution Read more…