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Let Outlook connect to Exchange Online instead of Exchange On-Prem

November 9, 2020 by AJNI No Comments

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.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover
DWORD ExcludeSCPLookup 1

If you are curious, SCP is located here (you can view it with ADSIEdit inside the Configuration Partition):

CN=Services, CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Organization, CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Exchange Administrative Group, CN=Servers,CN=YourServer,CN=Protocols,CN=Autodiscover,

References:

https://jacob.gardiner-moon.co.uk/2016/06/13/outlook-autodiscover-connecting-local-exchange-server-instead-office-365/

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Installing OpenVPN on Ubuntu 18.04 Minimal

March 16, 2020 by AJNI No Comments

A few days ago I bought a very cheap Virtual Private Server (VPS) – check my post here: https://www.ajni.it/2020/03/quick-tip-cheap-private-servers-on-the-cloud/

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.

Updating the system:

apt update

apt upgrade

Install OpenVPN

wget https://git.io/vpn -O openvpn-install.sh && bash openvpn-install.sh

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.

If you are looking for a VPS with good performance, check out Evolution Host at https://evolution-host.com/vps-hosting.php.
They offer virtual servers starting at 5€ per month.

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Use Steps Recorder to document procedures in an automated way

November 7, 2019 by AJNI No Comments

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.

Enjoy!

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Powershell: Getting Inactive AD Users

September 23, 2019 by AJNI No Comments

Hey folks!

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.

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties lastlogondate | where { $_.lastlogondate -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-90) }

We could also specify the OU where the command is going to search:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties lastlogondate -SearchBase "OU=TerminatedEmployees,DC=Company,DC=com"| where { $_.lastlogondate -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-90) }|select Name,Lastlogondate

There is also the -SearchScope Onelevel parameter to determine that we are not going to search recursively:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties lastlogondate -SearchBase "OU=TerminatedEmployees,DC=Company, DC=com" -SearchScope OneLevel | where { $_.lastlogondate -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-90) }|select Name,Lastlogondate

Have fun!

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Quick Tip: Find out the path of an email in the Outlook search results

April 30, 2019 by AJNI No Comments

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.

Cya!

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