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Re: Remote Server returned '550 5.7.705 Service unavailable. Access denied,tenant has exceeded thres

BarryArmit — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:43:16 GMT

Been waiting for Microsoft since 8th September 2021 and technician does not seem to have the expertise to remove blacklist from tenant. Still cannot send email and client at wits end with support by Microsoft not resolving problem

Re: BCC missing from emails - External contacts only

Vipin Tyagi — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:23:57 GMT

Hi,
Can you include Screenshot and Outlook App version that you're using?

Re: Mailbox Rules, PowerShell and Scripting.

Robert Bollinger — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:06:28 GMT

I forgot to post this last night:

$Importlist = Import-CSV Test_Email_Rule.csv

foreach ($SingleImport in $importlist)
{
New-InboxRule -Mailbox $SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress -From user.name@domain.com -MyNameInToBox $True -SubjectContainsWords '["Receipt Copy"] Hello' -Name TestEmailRule -MoveToFolder “$($SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress):\Sent Items"
}

Thats my complete script.

Re: Migrate from Exchange on prem to Office 365 with heavy email

AG-76 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:13:58 GMT

hi, anyone can help me? No one has ever faced a similar scenario? Thanks for any reply!

Re: Form with payment

PayO365 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:55:44 GMT

Hi did you get it figured out?

What is the common thing between #FastTrack & #ExpressRoute?

GermanosGrp — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:19:30 GMT

I am an F3 Formula Drive Professional, I couldn't but notice that Microsoft is going so #Fast, but what is the common thing between #FastTrack and #ExpressRoute? Which one is #Fas?er

BCC missing from emails - External contacts only

TS2606 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:34:55 GMT

Hi. I was wondering if anyone has recently came across the BCC field is missing from sent emails when its external contacts?

Have tried many different options from Google suggestions along with trying to add it in via Developer mode etc and can not get the BCC to appear at all. This is happening for myself and many other users within the organisation. Seems to have happened randomly recently and unable to get to the bottom of it.

Unable to view it within Outlook or OWA. When sending emails to internal users via BCC they appear without issue, happening only with external.

Thanks

Re: Mailbox Rules, PowerShell and Scripting.

pvanberlo — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:44:12 GMT

Would need a bit more of your script. But generally you’d do something like this:

$Mailboxes = Import-CSV .\mailboxes.csv
ForEach ($Mailbox in $Mailboxes) {
// Insert the code above but replace SingleImport with Mailbox
}

On mobile right now, so can’t make it pretty etc.

Re: Mailbox Rules, PowerShell and Scripting.

Robert Bollinger — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:49:55 GMT

So that seemed to work!! Thanks for your help. However now i have a different problem, instead of operating on each object (each user in my list) it only applies the mailbox rule to the LAST user in the list.

I have not seen that before? Any ideas?

Thanks

Re: Mailbox Rules, PowerShell and Scripting.

pvanberlo — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:26:16 GMT

Try this:

New-InboxRule -Mailbox $SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress -From user.name@extdomain.com -MyNameInToBox $True -SubjectContainsWords '["Receipt Copy"] Hello' -Name EmailRule -MoveToFolder “$($SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress):\Sent Items"

Re: Likes and Mentions Internally Hosted

pvanberlo — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 21:20:39 GMT

Microsoft seems to suggest both likes and mentions are available on Outlook on the web for Exchange Server 2016 (see link below). It may be possible your organization is still using an older on premise version of Exchange Server.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-mentions-to-get-someone-s-attention-90701709-5dc1-41c7-aa48-b01d4a46e8c7

Re: Preparing for Planner’s New Roster Containers

KM KTNN — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:25:50 GMT

I found this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/planner/access-planner-roster

Likes and Mentions Internally Hosted

zwarham — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:35:56 GMT

I requested that my organisation enable the Likes and Mentions to our OWA but received this response

- Unfortunately this feature is only available for Microsoft 365 subscribers who host email on Microsoft's cloud service. We currently host email internally, so this can't be enabled. Sorry about that

This seems a bit odd to me that it would be limited to this. Does anyone have any experience enabling this on an internal service?

Re: My signature stopped working in OWA

jennglass — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:32:26 GMT

I thought I'd share my update here as to what happened: I reported the problem to Microsoft and even though my language is set as English, I am still having those issues.
Reporting it to Microsoft, I hope, gave them an idea that the problem may be of a broader scope than what was initially thought, however, I have no idea when I can expect a resolution on my side...

Mailbox Rules, PowerShell and Scripting.

Robert Bollinger — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:29:53 GMT

Hey Guys,

I am trying to create a powershell script that will create a mailbox rule in each users mailbox, based on an input list.

Here is what i have so far:

New-InboxRule -Mailbox $SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress -From user.name@extdomain.com -MyNameInToBox $True -SubjectContainsWords '["Receipt Copy"] Hello' -Name EmailRule -MoveToFolder $SingleImport.PrimarySMTPAddress:\"Sent Items"

My input list has a single Column:

PrimarySMTPAddress

user.name@ourfqdn.com

user.name2@ourfqdn.com

user.name3@ourfqdn.com

I am getting this error when trying to run the script:

A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ':\Sent Items'.
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-InboxRule], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,New-InboxRule
+ PSComputerName : outlook.office365.com

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Robert

viewing admin center exports in excel WEB

jackschneider — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:31:38 GMT

All Office admin centers offer very useful downloading files in csv format.

When you have an web only environment (E1) you can not see the content in excel.

only with the standard editors of windows.

Give the opportunity to download

Let excel (WEB) open the files direct

You can do better:smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes::smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes::smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes::thumbs_up:

Re: Migrating Shared Drives : Sharepoint or OneDrive

Franky5555 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:46:52 GMT

Thanks Shaun. The requirement is to have a document repository. Thanks for your message

Re: Migrating Shared Drives : Sharepoint or OneDrive

Franky5555 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:45:23 GMT

Thanks David. The idea is to move to a cloud based solution w/out changing the way users manage their files first, then gradually expose them to SharePoint capabilities

Re: Visualize people and teams with Org Explorer in Outlook

joycelin — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:22:26 GMT

Hi , thank you so much for reporting this. We investigated the issue and deployed a fix over the weekend. Do you mind restarting Outlook and trying again to see if it's working now? Thanks again for trying out Org Explorer!

Re: Specific permissions to folders and subfolders in a shared mailbox

joseparra — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:59:36 GMT

Hi,

I've finally found the solution. The key was in the link

I just needed to add "delegated" mailbox manually in the "delegate" account managent, from Outlook.

Jose

Re: Get email alerts for low than 50 free Office 365 licenses

SimBur2365 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:37:31 GMT

Hi, here is a script you can run from Azure Automation... you can now also create a free sendgrid account directly in Azure Solutions to call from a runbook. Cheers =)
https://www.howdoiuseacomputer.com/index.php/2021/09/12/azure-microsoft-365-licensing-alert/

Re: Outlook Version 2108 Shared Calendar Issue

markharrington — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:31:52 GMT

thanks for that update. That seems to have worked for the ones we have tried.

Password Sync takes 30 min to sync

Bara123 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 05:55:56 GMT

I upgrade my ad-connect server to the last version (2.0.10.0), And now I have a problem with the password sync, from AD to 365.

(I don't have any problem with my forests...)

Any suggestions?

Re: Office 365 license consumption alert

LutzAndi475 — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:37:22 GMT

Hallo zusammen, Danke für die Super Unterstützung

Re: Office 365 license consumption alert

SimBur2365 — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 23:15:17 GMT

There are quite a few scripts available now but I wanted to create my own to alert when the count of consumed licenses is getting close to or at 0. I wouldn't expect anyone to be keeping more than 1 or 2 licenses free in a tenant (depending on the size of the org of course). Who wants to pay for stuff you are not using? In fact I think MS should look at allowing a negative buffer so that clients do not have to always have '1 or more spare'; let's face it that is forcing someone to pay for something they are not using yet right? Anyway...

The best way to run this is by creating an Azure Automation account (the future of task scheduler =). In my script I use a free SendGrid account to send the email alert on port 587 (you cannot use outbound 25 from Azure without special permission), although now you can also add the SendGrid solution in Azure, then call it with variables as a playbook from an automation script (I haven't crossed that bridge yet!). The email is not very pretty in basic text format, but it does the job. You can easily schedule it in the automation account to run every hour or whatever suits your requirement. As in the notes it is easily modifiable to alert when free licenses get low or high or both. Hope it helps someone.

https://www.howdoiuseacomputer.com/index.php/2021/09/12/azure-microsoft-365-licensing-alert/

Re: Sharing 365

David Petree [o365Guides] — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 19:24:45 GMT

What version of office 365?

The reason I ask is most do not come with a key. Where did you purchase it and what version is it? I am going to guess and say it’s “office 365 family” since you mentioned you have 6 people you can share with

Children associated with some random Family Group and can't be removed

milkmanrox — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 07:23:25 GMT

Hi,

My daughters laptop was becoming pretty much unusable so I formatted it over the weekend. When connecting it back to her Microsoft account, I then learnt that she was part of some Family Group associated with an Organizer that I have no idea where it has come from, it's some random gmail.com account and name I've never seen, and to make things worse it seems my son is also in this group.

Because they are children, they can not click on anything that allows them to remove themselves from the family group.

I then escalated a case to Microsoft (1028218745) and was informed there is literally no way to manually remove my childrens account from some foreign family group, and the actual recommendation from a supervisor that they close their account and create a new one.

Now I understand the security conundrum here, that the whole idea of a Family Account is that children can't remove themselves from it. But this also introduces a pretty major security issue that any malicious person out there could request kids join a random family group and if the kids were to accept the request to join, then there are pretty much stuck there for good.

Surely there is a way to address this? The Office365 support stuck to the script and pretty much said can't do anything manually at all. Things can always be done manually, its a matter of whether people are willing to do so, and at this time I can't find anyone in Microsoft who is willing to do it.

Recommendations?

Re: Sharing 365

Philwattsphil — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 07:20:28 GMT

Yes, Office 365. I used the 25 digit key provided by Microsoft. I just want my son to have Office on his laptop but without all my documents (word, excel etc etc) For some reason all my docs seemed to transfer over to his laptop when I used the 25 digit key. Maybe it's a one-drive thing....I don't know.

Visual update in Office for Windows now available in Current Channel (Preview)

Iqra_Sharif — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:15:21 GMT

Hi, Office Insiders! Kori Loomis, a Program Manager on the Office Experience team. At the end of June, we announced the visual update of Office, which is designed for Windows 11 but also elevates your experience in Windows 10.

For those of you running Beta Channel builds, we hope you are enjoying the simple and more coherent experience. We thank you for sharing your questions and suggestions on the design with us.

Today, we are pleased to announce that the visual update is available to 100% of Office Insiders running Current Channel (Preview) builds. Based on the feedback we received from Beta Channel users, we wanted to provide additional information to help you navigate the visual update.

For more detailed descriptions of the Office visual update, scenarios to try, and more, please read our original blog post.

Find out how it works here.

Cheers,
Iqra

Office Insider Community Manager

Become an Office Insider and gaining exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Office. Join Now: Windows | Mac | iOS | Android

Re: Sharing 365

Philwattsphil — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:36:24 GMT

Just my copy of office 365. I understand I can share it with 6 other devices !

Re: Not able to attach a onedrive link from within Outlook 2016

michelle_kirk — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:33:09 GMT

I continue to have this issue off and on. I was told by my help desk support that it had to do with mouse drivers, so i replaced my mouse with a wired mouse (which oddly worked...) but that is just too cumbersome sometimes.

Is there a reliable fix for this yet? I have even gone into Outlook options and selected General/Attachment Options/"Always share them as links", then rebooted....and when I have it all up and running again it still attaches a copy and not a link, without giving me an option.

This is a fundamental issue that needs to be fixed. I don't want my org sending a million duplicates of files when the whole point of O365 is to collab in one space whenever possible.

Re: Migrating Shared Drives : Sharepoint or OneDrive

Shaun Jennings — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:32:33 GMT

Are you just doing Microsoft 365 without the Project Online licenses? Project Online sounds like the optimal solution for what you are asking.

If not, I would suggest that if you are wanting a document repository, use SharePoint Online. While there are some creative ways of using the file explorer to access SharePoint Online, you will have it available through the Microsoft 365 Apps via the SharePoint linking available.

Just some of my thoughts off the top of my head. I would really sit down with your end users and get a list of what features they want to keep and what they cannot live without. That will help you define which way you will go.

Re: Migrating Shared Drives : Sharepoint or OneDrive

David Petree [o365Guides] — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:29:56 GMT

Office 365 groups

It uses Sharepoint

and this statement

On the other side SharePoint can seems to be overkill as the users do not care about metadata and web access.

If that is how they think, then they do not understand what it is and why it makes sense to use it. I am guessing they save a file, and the name of the file should tell everyone in the company what that file is about, without ever looking at it.

Re: Sharing 365

David Petree [o365Guides] — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:25:10 GMT

What are you trying to install and share with him. Do you mean Office? What key did you use? What Office 365 subscription do you have?

Repeated requests to add new senders to safe list

jamiesop — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:57:34 GMT

One of our users is repeatedly being asked to add email senders to his safe list in Outlook on the web. He sees a standard message like this across the top of his screen whenever he receives an email from a new sender:

He has been clicking the 'trust content' link (and therefore adding senders to the list) for about three months since the issue apparently started but has now run out of room in that safe list because he has approx 1000 entries.

Rather than simply increase the space in this list (if that's even possible), how can I establish why he is having to do this with every person/business that writes to him the first time. In some cases there are attachments or links in those emails but other times they just contain text so I'm not sure what Microsoft believes it has blocked. I don't think this is an issue with safe attachments or safe links, the mails usually arrive in his Inbox as opposed to Junk and he hasn't set any junk email filters.

We have a Microsoft 365 Standard package plus Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 subscription. No one else in our organisation is facing this issue on every new senders email they receive which suggests the problem isn't being caused by a global setting.

Sharing 365

Philwattsphil — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:19:40 GMT

Dear Friends, sorry but I'm a computer thickie so please go easy on me.

My son now has a laptop for school, thus I'd like to share my office 365 with him. Last night I I used the microsoft key and all worked well......however, I suddenly noticed all my docs then appeared on his laptop !!! So, please can someone tell me how I can install it without him having all my rubbish ??? Many thanks.

categories not in tag group

Jacklr1 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:26:56 GMT

In Appointments, the Tag group on the Toolbar, does not have categories available, see "Categories Capture" . I like to color code my appointments. I have tried to add categories to the toolbar, see "Categories2 Capture". They added alright but don't show up as being available. How can I get Categories added to the toolbar? I am using Office 365 at home from my employer.

Re: Guest users with blank email address

Nienke van Meurs — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:11:51 GMT

i found out the users were in the adress list of the company and therefore the mail adress could not be used twice.

I removed the users from the adress list, added the correct mail to the guest account and made the guest accounts for these users visible in the global adress list.

It is strange however that sometimes they were able to sign in without the mail adres and later on not.

Help with understanding Azure

TILAccountant — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:59:19 GMT

We run of office 365 and have set-up two of our laptops with the o365 signin rather than getting an external IT company involved. The issue we have is when we use teams or teamviewer to help the employee troubleshoot - azure kicks our the external party. How do we get around this - we have remote locations and can not easily get to all employees to help them.

subscription to use powerplatform

Julius_Jarmalavicius — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:53:13 GMT

What is the best cost affective office 365 subscription or combination of subscriptions to use office programs on pc such us word,excel, outlook, teams + usage of powerplatform ( power apps + power automate + powerbi pro)

How to combine these to have most cost affective subscription plan.

I know office 365 E3 plan comes with all i mentioned except powerbi pro and powerautomate does not allow to use premium connectors but maybe usage of premium connectors is not a requirement at the moment.

Re: Outlook Version 2108 Shared Calendar Issue

Matt Laverack — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:23:34 GMT

Should say that manually disabling that option also worked. The issue was repeatable by re-enabling.

Re: Outlook Version 2108 Shared Calendar Issue

null null — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:21:48 GMT

Same issue here. We had to turn off this "shared calendar improvements" feature by Group Policy to get some stability. We have calls open with Microsoft on this. 2107 and 2108 have not been stable.

Outlook calendar sharing updates (microsoft.com)

Re: Guest users with blank email address

dsergeant — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:15:30 GMT

We have had the same issue when adding some external users to a SharePoint site. Some users did not have a work email address. Have not yet found a solution. I had to go through the entire list of users and add work email using SP user profiles when necessary.

Re: Cannot see own calendar details in scheduling assistant

Sergio_Potemkin — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:27:16 GMT

Hi.
I'm observing the same situation in our tenant with Outlook v2012.
No solution found.
Workaround - try to scroll timeline in SchedulingAssistant a bit to the right or left and check, if event-info is available then ;)

Re: Office 365 Groups and Categorize emails

Victor Ivanidze — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 13:26:36 GMT

Hello ,

unfortunately this nut is much harder than I thought before ;(

At the moment we unable to find time and resources to develop such add-in.

If you are ready to pay for custom development please contact me directly.

Re: My signature stopped working in OWA

Per_S60 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:52:45 GMT

Last update in this case from Microsoft!
_________________________________________________
Some users are missing some settings within Outlook on the web, and some admins can't access Exchange Online PowerShell
EX280152, Exchange Online, Uppdaterades senast: September 9, 2021 9:23 PM
Starttid: August 23, 2021 2:09 PM, Sluttid: September 9, 2021 8:52 PM

Users were missing some settings within Outlook on the web, and admins were unable to access Exchange Online PowerShell.

September 9, 2021 9:23 PM
Title: Some users are missing some settings within Outlook on the web, and some admins can't access Exchange Online PowerShell

User Impact: Users were missing some settings within Outlook on the web, and admins were unable to access Exchange Online PowerShell.

More info: Users reported that the missing settings included, but may have not been limited to, the following:

Attachments
Change Language
Customize Actions
Rules
Signatures
Sweep

Impact was specific to users and admins configured with non-English languages. We had confirmed reports of impact from users and admins set to Lithuanian, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Our internal testing indicated that affected users and admins could set their language to English to bypass impact; however, users and admins may have been unable to change their language back to their desired language choice until the issue was resolved.

Final status: Our deployment of the fix has saturated throughout the majority of the affected environment, and we've determined via telemetry that this issue is resolved.

Scope of impact: The impact was limited to users and admins configured with non-English languages, such as Lithuanian, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Start time: Monday, August 23, 2021, 2:09 PM (12:09 PM UTC)

End time: Thursday, September 9, 2021, 8:52 PM (6:52 PM UTC)

Root cause: A recent change made to the platform to better align with localization per industry standards inadvertently introduced a regression that resulted in impact.

Next steps:
- We're reviewing our validation and testing of localization updates to prevent issues like this from occurring in the future.

This is the final update for the event.

September 7, 2021 8:55 PM

Title: Some users are missing some settings within Outlook on the web, and some admins can't access Exchange Online PowerShell User impact: Users are missing some settings within Outlook on the web, and admins are unable to access Exchange Online PowerShell. More info: Users have reported that the missing settings include, but may not be limited to, the following: Attachments Change Language Customize Actions Rules Signatures Sweep Impact appears to be specific to users and admins configured with non-English languages. We’ve confirmed reports of impact from users and admins set to Lithuanian, Norwegian, and Swedish. Our internal testing indicates that affected users and admins could set their language to English to bypass impact; however, users and admins may be unable to change their language back to their desired language choice until the issue is resolved. Current status: Our deployment of the fix has saturated throughout approximately 75 percent of the affected environment, and we're continuing to monitor its progress. We'll have a better estimation for completion of the deployment by our next scheduled update. Scope of impact: The impact appears to be limited to users and admins configured with non-English languages, such as Lithuanian, Norwegian, and Swedish. Start time: Monday, August 23, 2021, 2:09 PM (12:09 PM UTC) Root cause: A recent change made to the platform to better align with localization per industry standards inadvertently introduced a regression that's resulting in impact. Next update by: Thursday, September 9, 2021, 10:30 PM (8:30 PM UTC)

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OneDrive business not loading - No blue cloud in system tray

Christopher1967 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:35:33 GMT

Howdy,

I have setup 4 user's laptops (Windows 10) on our new Office 365 Business Standard package.

All laptops use the same email address for Microsoft personal & business accounts.

(we get the prompt "Work/School or Personal" when accessing Microsoft online)

According to a Microsoft support person this is what they are encouraging now.

3 setups work perfectly, have both blue & white clouds in the system tray (for business & personal files) with "OneDrive" and "OneDrive - <our domain name>" folders in explorer and c:\users\<username>.

1 laptop is refusing to load OneDrive business.

No blue cloud in system tray.

No "OneDrive - <our domain name>" folder in explorer or c:\users\<username>.

I have tried reinstalling OneDrive (from https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/onedrive/download)

I have tried reinstalling Office 365 (from www.office.com)

No change.

I haven't tried the "Add an account" button in the OneDrive personal settings yet.

Could this work?

Help please!

Re: 📈 How to create a Gantt Chart view in Microsoft or SharePoint Lists

Zulumike_BWN — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 04:02:15 GMT

Good video, easy to understand and follow.

Re: Announcing the General Availability of Microsoft Graph reporting APIs

Jeff Lamb — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:35:28 GMT

The link to "https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/v1.0/resources/mailbox_usage_reports" returns an error 404. Please fix the link

Re: Visualize people and teams with Org Explorer in Outlook

Adrian Hyde — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:55:28 GMT

Hi and - Other than being part of Office Insiders, is there anything else that needs to be enabled at the tenant level for this to work?

We've been unable to make it function - the image below is what everyone in our tenant experiences. We've had no luck with support since it is in preview (Outlook support says it is a problem with Exchange, but have no docs or contacts to help triage further), but are happy to debug with anyone who may know how to troubleshoot this issue.

Re: connectivity test: Unblock URL: *.svc.ms

jasonty — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:40:52 GMT

Recently saw an issue on this.
Any error that says "pushp.svc.ms" can be ignored, because nothing should be using that naming convention anymore, and were deprecated a while back
The new service urls look like "pushfp.svc.ms" or "pushnp.svc.ms" (pushf / pushn)
Not sure why the Connectivity tool is still using those, but we will report it.

Re: MS 365 network connectivity test

jasonty — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:39:54 GMT

Migrating Shared Drives : Sharepoint or OneDrive

Franky5555 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:38:33 GMT

Hello,

The situation: several hundreds shared drives which are automatically created based on information in a Project Management System (think of a project with a name and list of employees working on it).

Only the employees working on the project can have access to folder associated to the project.
All employees have same access rights then : write access

Access rights to folder are sync with the project staffing

As the company is migrating to Office 365 we needs to replicate that mechanism whereby when a new project is created a space to manage the project documents shall be created

Users are used to accessing the documents through the windows explorer and they want to keep it like it. There is no metadata associated to the files. project folders can contains up to several hundreds MB of data.

I understand onedrive is a personal drive but can be used to share documents to others. I also hear that the folder is owned by an employee, which is not the case in the use case described above.

On the other side SharePoint can seems to be overkill as the users do not care about metadata and web access.

The ability to edit concurrently a document is required.

So, SharePoint or OneDrive as the target solution?

Thanks,

Frank

Re: Office 365 Groups and Categorize emails

mhorner3 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:42:30 GMT

Hello Victor! Is there any update as to the status of this add-in? The company I work for has recently phased out the standard MS Outlook Shared Inbox at the global level and now only offers O365 Group Inboxes, which is a huge problem for us. I work in Document Controls and we use the Categories feature to help keep track of who's working on what, the status of requests, etc. when we have several document controllers working on a single, large project. I've been trying to figure out a workaround for weeks but O365 Groups does not seem to offer anything even remotely comparable to this feature. Any information you may have would be very much appreciated!

Re: Specific permissions to folders and subfolders in a shared mailbox

joseparra — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:33:55 GMT

Hi Vasil,
I think I've tried assigning permissions from the root to the subfolder. I did it using OWA and without assigning delegation permissions to the user, because if I set the delegation, full access to all the folders hierarchy was applyed. I will try again. The problem to test it is the delay, the changes are not applied inmediately.
Thank you very much!!
Jose

Re: Specific permissions to folders and subfolders in a shared mailbox

Vasil Michev — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:23:39 GMT

Yes you can, either use the client (both Outlook and OWA) or PowerShell (Add-MailboxFolderPermission). One thing to keep in mind is that you need to grant at least "viewer" permissions on each folder in the path to the folder you're sharing, including the "root" one.

Re: Is it possible to move the Search Box in Outlook to another position ?

UofC_user — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:15:17 GMT

I add my frustration with the move of the search bar to this outlandish position, and my hope that they will revert this change. Cheers!

Unable to utilize rules for email aliases when sending from same domain.

Anthony-123 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:41:45 GMT

I found this article which also describes the issue at hand. It seems that applying rules to an email alias will not work on the same domain. I'm looking for suggestions to how else I might achieve my goals.

I'm developing a workflow to process packing slips. I've created an account scannerATcompany.com to use with our ScanSnap scanner. Scanned documents will be sent to this account's OneDrive which triggers a PowerAutomate workflow.
For employees who don't have access to the scanner, we want them to email a photo of a packing slip. We have several offices which all have their own SharePoint sites where these packing slips need to be processed. So, for example, the NY office would email newyork.packingslipATcompany.com (an alias for scannerATcompany.com). The exchange rule would move any emails with attachments addressed to newyork.packingslipATcompany.com to the NYPackingSlip email folder. This would trigger a PowerAutomate workflow specific to that folder and begin the process of moving the file to the New York SharePoint site.
Ultimately, I want to use one user account to trigger five different PowerAutomate workflows. I just don't really see how I can make this work without creating five different email accounts; which seems overkill and expensive for our needs.

Re: ADFS Behavior

aliat_IMANAMI — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:26:23 GMT

I checked and came to a conclusion that you will not be prompted for the password in Teams/OneDrive/Outlook client when ADFS is configured.

My previous thought was Client so they may save cached credentials and will try to log in with those or have a different method for authentication, but it is only matter of password sync time to AAD.

I actually checked it for within intranet and outside too, both works same ways. My laptop was connected to internet and it was asking for new credentials, even before it was letting me login with cached credentials, but once i am logged in, my all apps used the same credentials automatically.

Windows installation issues

vreducareacademyoffl — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:35:58 GMT

I can't installation my new dell laptop

No permission to share a MS lists

bwillocx — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:16:09 GMT

Hi all ,

I have created a list in teams which I want to share with other people in my organisation. When I open the list in sharepoint and want to share this , I always get message " you need permission to share . You don't have permission to share this list . Ask its owner for full control permission so you can share it ".

I'm am the owner of the teams group , why do I get this message ?

My admin , who also is appointed as owner , gets the same message .

What's wrong ?

Re: My signature stopped working in OWA

Jan_Sandbacka — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:09:06 GMT

Thank you! Today it started working again! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Specific permissions to folders and subfolders in a shared mailbox

joseparra — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:04:28 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to set custom permissions to users/mailboxes over the folders/subfolders in a shared mailbox. If I add the users as members of the shared mailbox, they have full permissions over all the folder and subfolders. I want to avoid that some users could see, read or write some foldres/subfolders.

Thank you very much!!

Jose

Spam Filter Issue

scott222 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:22:34 GMT

We are being spammed by a bunch of computers that seem to have some virus. We receive an email with (No Subject) in the subject line and an attachment every 10 minutes.

Its not possible to create a rule specific to (No Subject) . We cannot create a rule to delete any email with a blank subject.

What is a workaround to delete any emails with no actual subject or (No Subject) in the subject line?

Thanks

Password Sync takes 30 min to sync

Bara123 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:23:50 GMT

I upgrade my ad-connect server to the last version (2.0.10.0), And now I have a problem with the password sync, from AD to 365.

(I don't have any problem with my forests...)

Any suggestions?

Microsoft Forces Move from Azure AD Cmdlets for License Management

Tony Redmond — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:47:31 GMT

On June 30, 2022, Azure AD and Microsoft Online Services cmdlets will stop working for license management. The result is that you need to upgrade PowerShell scripts which use these cmdlets. The choice is to use Graph API calls or cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. In this article, we explore the steps necessary to upgrade a script to remove service plans from an Office 365 license (SKU).

https://practical365.com/microsoft-forces-move-from-azure-ad-cmdlets-for-license-management/

How to Manage Anonymized User Data in Microsoft 365 Usage Reports

Tony Redmond — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:46:34 GMT

The usage reports available in the Microsoft 365 admin center, Teams admin center, and other places now include anonymized user information by default. The new default became active on September 1, 2021 and the organization setting applies to any usage data generated by the Microsoft Graph usage reports API, which means that some scripts might create reports less interesting and useful than before. It’s a good change for privacy, but will organizations persist with the new default?

https://office365itpros.com/2021/09/09/manage-anonymized-user-data-in-microsoft-365-usage-reports/

Migrate from Exchange on prem to Office 365 with heavy email

AG-76 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:29:54 GMT

Hi,

I need to migrate an onprem old Exchange server to a new mail server.

All users are already using Office 365, but have not currently set up email with Exchange Online.

Migrating from Exchange onprem to Exchange Online wouldn't be a problem, but the user experience could be the main limitation.

Every day most of people of the organization send a lot of email with high resolutions photos as attachment.

Now, with onprem Exchange users aren't experiencing any particular issues as they delegate the send-receive activity to their onprem exchange server and their local Outlooks respond excellently.
Subsequently, however, the bulk of the weight would fall on the outlook of each user with a delay and an overload that could lead to functional hang.
Has anyone faced similar scenarios and have any suggestions on how to prevent the local outlook from becoming the bottleneck? Thanks in advance for any help or suggestion you should give me

Re: Ediscovery Search Limits

Vasil Michev — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 07:00:37 GMT

There's no limit to the number of mailboxes you can search, there are limits to export/purge: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/limits-for-content-search?view=o365-worldwide#search-limits

Emoji window is automatically appearing in my MS Access Textbox.

Richard_Bates — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:45:21 GMT

Emoji window keeps automatically appearing in my MS Access Textbox.

I must reboot to stop this.

I'm an admin and lost my password HELP!

Carlitos4Christ — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 05:17:56 GMT

I've been on the phone trying to reach support at Microsoft for 6 hours now. I'm an admin of an organization and forgot my password. I tried resetting my password and it says to contact my admin -- (um...thats me!). Thought I set up all the security backups in case this happened but apparently not. I need help to rest my password and access the admin dashboard asap! Please help!! ANYONE OUT THERE (in the charlie brown voice)!

Re: Remove domain from reseller control

pauloscx — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:50:55 GMT

I dont have admin rights in the office 365 portal, although I have total control of the domain DNS Zone. I can't understand how I have total control of the domain but still have to proof some other way my ownership

Azure MFA w/ Authenticator - Some Users Getting Number Match Unexpectedly

Jonathan Covalt — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:00:16 GMT

I've set up the use of Azure MFA for our organization using the Conditional Access Policies. We tested this to ensure it works as expected with a handful of users, and are planning to roll it out more widely as we simultaneously roll out MDM using Intune.

I have a couple users who have been using the Authenticator app to validate their logins, and they've been getting the Approve/Deny prompt. However, now that we've enrolled their phones in Intune, they are instead getting a 'choose the matching number' prompt instead.

We are not configured for Passwordless login (it's on the list to look into, but we're just not there yet), so I know that's not it, and these are the same users who were getting just the approval request before. Is this expected behavior once their phone is in Intune, or can anyone tell me if there something else that might cause this issue?

Ediscovery Search Limits

Ian Gibason — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:43:14 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I have to run an eDiscovery Search across all 100k+ mailboxes with messages from a specific sender/ author AND with a specific Subject.

The issues is we have A3 licensing and we are limited to 10k mailboxes per search.

I have tried creating groups and importing a list of 10k users via CSV but my Powershell sessions either take FOREVER or times out.

Import-Csv -Path C:\StuGrp1.csv | foreach{Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity StudentGroup1 -Member $_.Mail}

What other options to I have to run this type of search and bypass these limits? From what I am given I don't really have any options to limit my scope by anything else.

I also tired to search one month at a time but that still searches across 100k+ mailboxes.

Thanks for any help!

Ian...

Re: Room Resource "This meeting has not been accepted"

Joshua_Thompson — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:21:43 GMT

My home environment was running the CURRENT channel. My local enviroment (work) runs the Semi Annual Enterprise channel. I upgraded a workstation in my local environment that was having this problem from the semi annual enterprise channel version to the current version.
Problem fixed. The meetings on the shared calendar now no longer states "This meeting has not been accepted".

Unfortunately we cannot run the CURRENT version as it conflicts with our change management policies.
FYI to anybody having this same issue. This is what "fixed" it for me.

Re: Room Resource "This meeting has not been accepted"

Joshua_Thompson — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:31:01 GMT

I am not seeing any standout firewall denies that would indicate this is a firewall problem.
I cannot figure out what it is about my local environment that is causing this but it definitely seems related to my local environment.

Re: Remove domain from reseller control

mazupan — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:53:03 GMT

Is your domain in the reseller's tenant or separated from it and therefore in an independent tenant?

In case your domain is in a separate tenant and you have global admin rights you can remove the reseller's delegated admin rights yourself.

But in other cases, I would suggest consulting with your lawyer. A simple cease-and-desist letter does wonder most of the time.

share to a 365 distribution group

zhuoweizxu — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:46:36 GMT

Hello, I want to share a document to an O365 distribution group. When put the display name of the distribution group, it's not working. But it works with the email address. Is it possible to enable the display name?

Thanks!

Re: ADFS Behavior

osamamansoor — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:41:29 GMT

Thanks for your response.
I am using Microsoft Team App (Desktop Version) and One Drive (Sync Client) so they will Prompt for the password after changing AD although we deployed ADFS ?

RE: disable trigger,jump annoyed notification "Import Windows contacts"

student_israel — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:35:55 GMT

this Import contacts begin approximately 1 +- months ago when I want to organize Onedrive better for me. in 2 computers.

Now in that comp laptop lenovo I uninstalled Onedrive' Uninstalled Office///'

begin how to at all disable this windows contacts in Registry. but windows does not alow.

good guy from microsoft answer desck attempt to help 3 time.

without result

Re: Remove domain from reseller control

pvanberlo — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 05:34:28 GMT

Unless they remove the domain from the associated tenant, there’s not much you can do yourself. You could try and reach out to Microsoft Support to see if they can arrange this if you provide proof of ownership, but I’ve never really tried this. It’s probably best to see if you can convince the partner, in the end I assume you own the domain name so they could face issues if they do not hand it over.

Remove domain from reseller control

pauloscx — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:16:36 GMT

Hello,

My current Microsoft 365 subscription is linked and managed by a Microsoft reseller. I'm not enjoying it's way to manage and support me, so i want to create a Microsoft 365 Business for my self, so I can manage it by my self.

Although when I try to create a Microsoft 365 with my domain, I receive an error message regarding that the domain is linked with another account, even though I have total control of the domain DNS.

The reseller refuses to delete my domain from his account. How can I proceed so I can manage my domain by my self? I have note for the administrator email.

Why Microsoft’s Workload-Agnostic Retention Strategy Sometimes Comes Up Short for Email

Tony Redmond — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:59:36 GMT

Microsoft would like Office 365 tenants to use Microsoft 365 retention policies instead of Exchange Online mailbox retention policies. Their stance is reasonable because Microsoft’s engineering effort is focused on workload-agnostic retention across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. However, mailbox retention policies continue to offer some advantages that aren’t available in the Microsoft 365 equivalent. And they’re cheaper too because they don’t need Office 365 E3 or E5 licenses.

https://practical365.com/exchange-online-retention-m365-retention/

Re: Is it possible to move the Search Box in Outlook to another position ?

Philptc — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:52:23 GMT

I need to voice my opinion too. The search box location is illogical. After nearly a year of use it still misses my automatic view point. The ergonomics of this thing is awful. Microsoft, you need to fix it (/unfix it!)

Re: ADFS Behavior

aliat_IMANAMI — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:40:07 GMT

Teams online and One drive online will not ask you for password change, as they are being synced but Teams client and OneDrive client will ask you for credentials again as they are clients. For OneDrive you may have to go to Credentials Manager and remove the old credentials and then may sync again for updated changes.

Re: How to delete all calendar appointments booked by terminated users?

Efff dd — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:23:29 GMT

can this be done under the GUI? not familiar with the Security & Compliance Center

Audio processing

71_RicardoManuel196 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:49:43 GMT

Hola Estoy trabajando en mejorar la calidad del audio transmitido a travez de amateur radios & en la cancelacion de interferencias causadas por leds principalmente.

Este año estamos en la parte mas baja de la avtividad solar lo que dificulta la propagacion de las ondas radiales y hay dias en que no se puede uno comunicar.

Los filtros pasivos ayudan algo, pero ahora con la posibilidad de digitalizar el audio remover las partes de interferencia y volver a analogica la señal.

Es un proyecto que produce satisfacciones porque se logran resultados.

Hace unos meses encontre un dispositivo que su creador hizo hace mucho tiempo.

Puso 2 antenas, una para referencia y otra para transmision. aparte hizo un transformador donde las señales de las dos antenas estan en contrafase. Unos potenciometros y un amplificador atenuador para cada circuito.

Lo fantastico es que con practica uno logra anular una señal invirtiendo las fases.

Es increible lo que hacemos cuando debemos resolver un problema.

Saludos a todos

Re: Excel Cell Comments/Notes in VBA

JeromeSmith — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:30:12 GMT

Try this

Public Sub Convert_Comments_to_Notes()
'Converts the Office 365 comments into notes.
Dim rng As Range, cell As Range
Dim comments As String
Set rng = Selection

For Each cell In rng
If Not cell.CommentThreaded Is Nothing Then
comments = cell.CommentThreaded.Text
cell.CommentThreaded.Delete
cell.AddComment (comments)
End If
Next cell
End Sub

Re: Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it

AJonesII — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:42:50 GMT

No solution, happens about every other day, MS does not seem to care. Curious, do you have a paid version of Outlook365 (subscription). They are pushing that at $99/year. I already paid $400 for MS Office, so thought I didn't need this.

Microsoft Applies the Viva Brand to MyAnalytics

Tony Redmond — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:31:07 GMT

Microsoft is applying their Viva brand to the features currently known as MyAnalytics. Viva Insights will span a monthly email digest, the Outlook insights add-on, and the Insights dashboard. If you don’t want users to access these features, you can disable the features individually or remove the service plan from user licenses. The rebranding is happening now and due to complete in November.

https://office365itpros.com/2021/09/07/microsoft-applies-the-viva-brand-to-myanalytics/

Auto email reminder to someone who hasn't replied.

Najam_Ahmed — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:01:29 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a way to send automatic email reminders to a recipient, who hasn't replied to an email. Is there a built-in function in outlook or do I need to use a third-party program?

Re: ADFS Behavior

osamamansoor — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 04:59:10 GMT

.

Thanks for the response.

Just clear me again after adopting ADFS Microsoft Team / One Drive will no longer prompt for Password update after changing Active Directory Password (Which is synced with Office 365 through AD Sync) ?

Re: Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it

APieceofCostaRica — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 01:13:01 GMT

Hello I'm having the same problem, any solution yet?

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ruthwik1640 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 01:08:21 GMT

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Betreff: Office ProPlus Apps crashing constantly

Leila-B — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 21:22:55 GMT

Thanks a lot! Hopefully it will work out for us, too.

Betreff: Office ProPlus Apps crashing constantly

Julian12 — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:59:45 GMT

Hey, sry for late response, file location was:
C:\users\$($user)\appdata\local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\OfficeFileCache
Sometimes setting this reg entry helps with this and other autosave issues:
HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Options -Name 'DontSaveRsid' -value 0

Betreff: Office ProPlus Apps crashing constantly

Leila-B — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:30:09 GMT

Could you share the solution for this issue? I would greatly appreciate, since we are facing the same problem with a couple of our workstations.
Thank you in advance!

I do not get the option to change into new UI after updating the Office to latest beta version

JianYu — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:16:26 GMT

I had updated my office version to the latest beta build but I dont get the option to change my UI to rounded corner shape. Anyone knows how to enable it?

RE: disable trigger,jump annoyed notification "Import Windows contacts"

Andrzej1 — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:38:20 GMT

Can you explain what you did - it will be helpful?

RE: disable trigger,jump annoyed notification "Import Windows contacts"

troybowers — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:28:07 GMT

yes ive done that