In Office 365, the default password policy requires users to change their password every 90 days. To some users this is a ridiculously short period of time, but to some administrators this is too long. You can work it out between your users and your security team what the right time period is for…
I don’t use custom compiled code often with the SQL Reporting Services reports I develop, but I came across a client the other day who was migrating SQL Server 2008 R2 reports (Native Mode) to SQL Server 2012 SP1 (SharePoint integrated mode). A number of these reports were using custom DLLs for some logic and…
What is the Microsoft Office 365 Federation Metadata Update Automation Installation Tool? This tool automates an otherwise manual process, which if not performed, would prevent all users from signing into Office 365 when the token signing certificate expires (once per year). This tool is a PowerShell script that creates a scheduled task to tell Office…
Good news! As of February 8th, 2013, we can share documents for viewing and editing via SkyDrive and the viewers/editors no longer need to sign in with a Microsoft Account to view/edit. Read up on this enhancement on the Inside SkyDrive blog. Here’s a walkthrough of how easy this is: To create a new document,…
Microsoft recently made some exciting changes to SkyDrive. Before when you shared a document and allowed users to edit they were required to have a Microsoft account. Now when you share a document with edit rights they don’t need a Microsoft account. If you require them to have a Microsoft account you can make that…
The Exchange 2007/2010 Offline Address Book (OAB) can be a pain to manage in environments where users expect instant access to updates to the Global Address List. Outlook 2007/2010 clients running in Cached Mode use the Offline Address Book by default for all address lookups. This means when a new user is added to your…
There is a nice new feature in Exchange 2010 with Outlook 2007/2010/2013, called automapping. Autodiscover automatically maps all mailboxes in Outlook to which a user has Full Access Permission. This can also cause issues. There are a couple of scenarios when this will happen: An administrator grants full access permissions for a user to…
I often get requests on how large our Exchange mailboxes are, or who is getting near their mailbox limit. This one liner PowerShell Cmdlet will pull the name and mailbox size in MB and export it to a CSV for easy sorting with Excel: Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select-Object DisplayName,{$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()} | export-csv -path C:\<FILENAME>.csv …
So i came across a 0x7a print error today and here’s the fix… -Reboot into Safe-Mode (usually done by pressing the F8 key during boot-up) error 0x0000007a -Navigate to C:WindowsSystem32spooldrivers and drive into any folders in there and rename any folders named 3 to anything else. I had it in two different folders. -Remove…
I recently added an application server to a SharePoint 2010 farm and was receiving these two errors every minute. Session "WSSUSAGESESSION14" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022 Session "WSSTRACESESSION14" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022 As a result, I also found that SharePoint’s log files were completely empty, but only on…
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