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Importing CSV file to Create email distribution group in Exchange Server 2013

October 30, 2018, 9:12 am
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I have a csv file with 94 users with the headers of the 4 columns being  firstname,   lastname,   emailaddress,   Displayname

I want to import this csv into MS Exchange Server 2013 to create new distribution group or update a group that I can create before the import in Exchange Server 2013.

Is there an easy way to do this in either PowerShell or Exchange Management Shell besides using the command below for each individual user?

Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "Staff" -Member "JohnEvans@contoso.com"

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Editing post with tag mysteriously adds unrelated tag

October 30, 2018, 9:18 am
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I successfully created a post (https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/post/8045340) and I tagged the OP. I decided to go back and edit the post to make some slight adjustments. Upon my second edit, I noticed there was another user tagged twice in the tag field. I removed the superfluous user and saved my post. Curiosity got me so I hit edit a third time and sure enough, the mysterious user popped up again.

Sorry for the audio. I didn't realize that my radio station I was listening to was being recorded. That seemed to drown out my comments. But you'll get the idea with my mouse circling and scrolling as to what I'd be saying.

I'll take another bug badge, thanks.

https://youtu.be/jy8tIVJFkcA

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Office 365 Migration Emporium

October 30, 2018, 9:21 am
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I'm in the process of removing an SBS 2003 and one of the last features to remove is emails. So I've been doing lots of research into Office 365 Migration and I'vecollected a huge amount of articles, videos and guides (The best one being from the Spiceworks community).

SoI just wanted to share this collection for anyone who may be in the process of planning such work.

First off what kind of Migration are you going to do, Staged, Cutover, Hybrid...
Technet hasput together a questionnaire which will help you figure this out:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default(EXCHG.150).aspx

Although I would say read up on each of the methods as this questionnaireis just to point you in the right direction.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/Exchange/mailbox-migration/decide-on-a-migration-path


Now what kind of work is involved?
Microsoft...

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Windows 10 Feature Release update push?

October 30, 2018, 9:21 am
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Is there a way to push out the major feature releases?  Our rmm won't patch it grr lol

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Meet CrowdStrike’s Adversary of the Month for October: DUNGEON SPIDER

October 30, 2018, 9:23 am
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DUNGEON SPIDER is a criminal group operating the ransomware most commonly known as Locky, which has been active since February 2016 and was last observed in late 2017. Locky is a ransomware tool that encrypts files using a combination of cryptographic algorithms: RSA with a key size of 2,048 bits, and AES with a key size of 128 bits. Locky targets a large number of file extensions and is able to encrypt data on shared network drives. In an attempt to further impact victims and prevent file recovery, Locky deletes all of the Shadow Volume Copies on the machine.

Locky uses a set of hard-coded IP addresses for C2 (command and control) communications, and once the victim has been infected, an initial HTTP POST is made using a file path of /checkupdate appended to the C2s. Locky will then continue to communicate with the hard-coded IP...

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For non-technical users: Cybersecurity Rules of the Road

October 30, 2018, 9:24 am
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We all remember those days, right? If you're from the US, perhaps you recall nervously waiting in line at the DMV, preparing for your first test before you go out into the world with your first car.

Truthfully, cars can be difficult to operate for a newbie (especially some of the newer ones with more buttons than a space shuttle), they can be dangerous when put in the hands of someone acting maliciously, they require training and practice, and cars have the potential to do a lot of damage.


Replace "they" and "cars" with "computers" and it still rings true. HR doesn't ask users for their license when they hand over a company laptop, right?

It's for this reason that we all know how important user education is for any company, large or small. The Avast Business team has put together a "Cybersecurity Rules of the Road" that you can share...

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Email to previous IT guy and General getting started with Spiceworks

October 30, 2018, 9:28 am
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Hi,

I'm sort of new to Spiceworks, I tried it out in the early days at a previous employer and it has been used here at my current employer for several years. I've still got my predecessors emial account active and just when I think I'm good to shut it down I get something like this:

Sender: francois from Spiceworks Troubleshooting App

Hi there,
On Oct. 25, 2018 we flipped the switch to release the latest Connectivity Dashboard.
We emailed you a few days ago with info on what existing users like yourself needed to do to make the transition easiest.
If you didn't get a chance to do this, that's ok. You'll just need to deploy the new agent (with your new site key) and add your configured services again.
The new Connectivity Dashboard is faster and integrates with the rest of the online Spiceworks Inventory and Help Desk services.
We hope you...

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Hyper-V VM cannot access internet

October 30, 2018, 9:28 am
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Hello all

I am studying for my MCSA and going through hyper-v now. I setup a lab environment but i am having an issue accessing internet from the hyper-v vms.

I created an external switch and connected it to the VM. The host can access internet but the VM cannot. The VM can ping the external switch network adapter of the host but not the gateway or anything else on that network. The VM does receive DHCP from a DC in the lab enviornment (not a hyper-v vm)

I am using CBT nuggets and in their lab everything works but when i replicate it in my own lab the VM cant get online.

In case it matters my lab is on a esxi host which has a DC and hyper-v server as vms.

Not sure if i am missing something or if it has to do with the fact the hyper-v is a vm on a esxi server

Any help is appreciated.

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Configure Auto-Reply & Forwarding in Exchange 2010 Remotely with Powershell

October 30, 2018, 9:31 am
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Just a quick PowerShell snippet here. It took me a tiny bit of googling and poking around in documentation to figure this out so I thought I'd save you the trouble. I'm a PowerShell noob, so if you have questions, my answer is likely going to involve get-help...

Please feel free to suggest improvements, or variations for different Exchange Server versions.

It might also be interesting to see if someone knows of a way to automatically trigger some PowerShell that would set the away message and forwarding when a user is deactivated or moved to a certain OU, to eliminate a few clicks when users leave..

FYI - I keep scripts in a .ps1 file with plenty of comments. I open it with Visual Studio Code - I have the PowerShell Language Support extension installed. I can select the line of code I need to run, and execute it by pressing F8.

Here's...

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remediating sccm clients

October 30, 2018, 9:35 am
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Hello all,

we deployed software updates and some clients are throwing errors.


How can I troubleshoot them

regards

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Office for Mac 2016 (Home & Business) Retail to VL??

October 30, 2018, 9:36 am
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Hello all,

Would like some suggestion here on what can be improved for my situation.

So, at my work we use Office for Mac 2016 (Home & Business). We buy these keys in retail, ie., Fully Packaged Product. We use that key to bind it to a mail ID and use it to activate. It's been difficult now a days to track it because so many e-mail IDs for so many product keys. Previously, we used same email ID for many product keys. That would be a pain in the ass. Because, when I try to activate, it will not show any kinda info about which product key it is. It just shows Office for Mac 2016 x how many keys we binded with it.

To eliminate this, let me know if this will work.

Put that retail key (FPP) on our VL server (VAMT 3.1), and activate the office through VL Serializer (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/mac/volume-license-serializer)....

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Transport rules catching legitimate emails

October 30, 2018, 9:44 am
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I've had to resort to setting up a few transport rules to help fight the insane amount of spam our Office 365 tenant receives.  

I now have a rule that works, but also works too well and catches messages that should be allowed.

This rule basically blocks:  sender's address domain portion belongs to any of these domains: 'company.com'
and Is received from 'Outside the organization'

This is fine, but now I'm finding that some messages that are set to "auto-forward" to a user in our domain is also being blocked.  It only seems that when someone within the organization emails an external email address that is set to forward back internally is blocked. 

I can't seem to figure out the right combo to allow these through...help would be appreciated. 

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Shared Calendar - User Mailbox vs Room Mailbox

October 30, 2018, 9:56 am
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Hi Everyone,

I am trying to create a calendar that will be managed by our Executive Assistants. I am trying to decide if it's better to create a Room Mailbox a User Mailbox.

This is a calendar being used for traveling schedule within certain departments. Is it easier to create a user mailbox and give full access to the calendar to the appropriate assistants? or a room mailbox with full access to the calendar?

I don't have much experience with room mailboxes so I don't know what the limitations are.

Thank you 

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SharePoint 2010 to 2013 Migration

October 30, 2018, 9:57 am
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We have a SharePoint 2010 Server and we are building a 2013 server. Before I started working here the old tech took a SQL backup of 2010 and restored it to SQL on the 2013 server. However the backup was done over 6 months ago.

I have since taken a backup and restored it but I know I'm missing a step because now the 2013 SharePoint is not loading. What SharePoint or Powershell commands do I need to run to get this going?

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New Apple announcements: Updates to iPad Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Air

October 30, 2018, 9:59 am
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Just in time for Halloween, Apple fans have new reasons to celebrate; be thrilled (or let down) by sweet features; and perhaps be spooked by high price tags. On Oct. 30, at a special event at theBrooklyn Academy of Music, Apple announced the latest updates to its product lineup, which include new versions of the Mac mini, iPad Pro, and MacBook Air.

No huge surprise: The mobile devices are thinner and lighter than before, and all boast higher performance than previous models. And as you might have expected, the slimmer iPad Pro has shed its the headphone jack.

Like the iPhone XS devices before it, the iPad Pro is also abandoning TouchID in favor of the biometric FaceID. But bucking Apple's trend of using proprietary connectors, the new iPad Pro, will include a USB-C connector instead of the Lightning port, which will allow users to...

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Trying to use IF/ELSE in Helpdesk Notification Template

October 30, 2018, 10:03 am
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Trying to set a condition in Help Desk Notification Templates.

Ticket notification email template subject:

{{ticket.ref}} {{ticket.c_request_type}} {{ticket.category}} : {{ticket.c_customer_name}} SO/Qt# {{ticket.c_order_quote_num}} {%if ticket.category.is_change_order%} {{ticket.summary}} {%endif%}

Part in bold is not returning anything in the email output for tickets catetorized as change order (or others). Either way, none of the bold outputs.

Trying to display ticket summary if [Category] field = 'Change Order'.

Following the tutorial syntax:

https://community.spiceworks.com/support/help-desk/docs/ticket-notification-template-ref?utm_campaig...

recipient.is_admin - Returns true if this user is an admin or help desk admin. Can be used to conditionally turn on content just for admins

Can someone see where I'm going wrong?

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Unable to apply Scheduled Task via GPO

October 30, 2018, 10:07 am
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Hi guys,

I have a need to push out some scheduled tasks to a number of workstations (Windows 7/10), via GPO.

The task is not being created, and running a GPResult on the clients give the following error against the policy:

Failure (Error Code: 0x80073a99)
The GPO/task settings are as follows:
Computer Configuration Preferences Control Panel Settings Scheduled Tasks
  • New Scheduled Task (at least Windows 7)
  • Runas "NT AUTHORITY\System" (Run whether the user is logged on or not)
  • Triggers - On event *cutom event filter applied*
  • Actions - run a batch script located within SYSVOL

I have even attempted the following:

  • Runas "NT AUTHORITY\System" (Run only when the user is logged on)

Along with removing the InteractiveTokenfrom within the ScheduledTask.xml file for the GPO.

Neither seem to apply the the task correctly.

The GPO itself applies - so...

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Thoughts on Windows 10 4 user peer-to-peer network for QuickBooks

October 30, 2018, 10:10 am
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Hi again!  I have a prospect "willing" to upgrade from old accounting software and 10 year old computers to  Windows 10 computers and QuickBooks Premier 2019 for 4 or 5 users at the urging of their accountant. They don't share anything now and don't plan on sharing much except the QB database and would rather use a dedicated Windows 10 computer then a server. As MS took away the HomeGroup I am wandering what your thoughts are on this type of setup and if anyone has experience building a network this way. It looks like the share option in Explorer is for files not folders.

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Azure AD connect Sync Issue

October 30, 2018, 10:16 am
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All users other than one have been synced. This has to be related to the user account. FYI this was all set up to sync existing 365 users to on prem ad. So we had to add the UPNs, set the mail and SMTP. That was all completed before attempting to sync this account.
I am now having a sync issue with another user and not hard match or soft match will resolve the issue.
We are getting a sync error message from 365 in regards to an .onmicrosoft account that DOES NOT exist. Previously when dealing with sync issues Azure AD connect would create that account because SMTP proxy was missing or incorrect UPN. For this user that was not the case, everything was set correctly to perform a soft match. If I pull the immutable ID for the cloud user it is correct.
So far I have manually set the immutable ID for the correct cloud user that is...
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Windows 8.1 Pro - Reset to Windows 8 Home by mistake?

October 30, 2018, 10:17 am
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I am experiencing an issue today that I've never run into at my workplace.

We have one Windows 8.1 machine that was running so poorly that I decided to do a full Windows Reset and wiped the drive. However, when the machine was finished reinstalling Windows, I could not join my workplace's Domain Network. The button was grayed out, even though in "system" it says my OS is 64-bit architecture, but Windows says Windows 8 instead of 8.1.

I am currently running all of the "important updates" to see if that fixes my problem, but I'm afraid it somehow reverted back to Windows 8 Home edition and I will never be able to join the domain again without installing Windows 10 Professional.

Has anyone heard of having this issue before? If so, is it fixed by Windows updates or do I need to purchase the upgrade even though the computer came as...

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