If a computer is in an Active Directory Domain environment with Exchange On-Prem installed, Outlook clients might connect to local Exchange instead of Exchange Online, because they query Active Directory first.
This Registry key will avoid SCP Lookup in Active Directory.
It was very cheap (4$ or 3.75€ annually), but with a lot of gotchas.
One of them is Ubuntu 18.04 Minimal, which means a lot of packages will not be pre-installed, causing a lot of pain when installing services like in my example OpenVPN.
Here is how I managed to install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 18.04 Minimal.
The first problem occurs with the root CA certificates:
Install the root certificates in order to trust them:
apt-get install ca-certificates
After re-running the command, another error shows up:
Install the next package (iptables):
apt-get install iptables
And finally, the OpenVPN setup can be run:
I had to set a custom port, because only specific ones were NAT’d to my server. You might leave the port to default. I am also using 1.1.1.1 for DNS.
After the setup is finished, a configuration file will be created. This file contains the public certificates and private key that are mandatory for the connection. It can be imported into the OpenVPN client (Windows) through the GUI.
On Linux, a simple
openvpn configfile.ovpn
does the trick.
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There is a built-in app in Windows that helps you record your screen and automatically creates steps with screenshots and a description. Just search “Steps Recorder” in the start menu.
Running the program as administrator allows you to record programs that run with highest privileges. Just start recording, go through the steps needed for the specific action, stop the recording and finally save the steps.
A compressed file will be created containing the report as a MHT file. It can be opened with a common browser.
A very handy tool both for documentations or end users.
Here is a quick way to find inactive AD Users in your environment. Get-ADUser ist the cmdlet we are going to use.
We are getting all users from the highest OU (domain.com) and using the Property LastLogonDate, which will not be returned if not specified in the -Properties parameter. After that a Where statement is going to show users that haven’t logged in since 90 days or more.
So you just made a keyword search in Outlook and found that very important email from your boss. Awesome! But how can I find the path of that email, you may ask? Here is a very quick tip.
By hitting ALT+ENTER on the corresponding email, you can see some properties, including the email’s folder. In my case it is Posta in Arrivo (Inbox).
Another way of finding out, is to double-click on the email and select File on the top left of the window.
