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I have a largely cosmetic problem. I have deleted and re-created someone's mysite (OneDrive). Now works fine. However, the landing page is the Newsfeed. It is stuck on an error about setting up OneDrive. It doesn't seem to have noticed OneDrive is fine. What I want to do is just reset the Newsfeed to its defaults. It looks like it is "stuck" as if OneDrive is broken. In SharePoint 2013 can I reset a NewsFeed page for a user in a non-disruptive way because the user now has data on their OneDrive. Stephen20Views0likes0CommentsNew Exchange Admin Center (Dec 2020)
I have been nagged quite often to try the new Exchange Admin Center. So I did. Its very slow. Adding an email address in to do a mail trace can take minutes to enumerate just one user. Then adding a delegate to shared mailbox. Again, go away, make a coffee, come back. Very slow. There doesn't seem to be a feedback button on the page. I am fairly sure I will just have to use PowerShell otherwise every task is going to take minutes instead of seconds. I am sure it will be mandatory soon. I don't welcome it.1.3KViews1like2CommentsOnedrive for Business default url
I have a problem that I can't get my head around and I would appreciate some ideas. I have a user whose onedrive for business defaults to "/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx" at the end of the URL which shows as a "modern" page with just a couple of folders. When he uses the "default.aspx" ending on his onedrive url he gets all his files in a classic interface. He can get to his files and can bookmark this fine. In one sense it's not a problem. However, this is not expected behaviour. I have been into his profile and it's pointing to Onedrive in exactly the same way as everyone else. So it's odd that the Onedrive web app sends him to a different URL. Does anyone have ideas as to why this is happening and what steps I can take to make the web app take him to a modern site with his files. As an aside. I think I recall seeing some Microsoft documentation pointing to a list of all the Onedrive urls used and if anyone has a link to a list of standard urls us3.7KViews1like1CommentAADSTS70008 when trying to activate Office Applications
Hi I have an Office 365 user on my tenant who can logon to Office web applications at portal.office.com and they work fine. He has an E5 license. When he goes to activate his desktop applications, whether Word, Excel or Outlook, he gets an error. " Message: AADSTS70008: The provided authorization code or refresh token has expired due to inactivity. Send a new interactive authorization request for this user and resource." There are some explanatory notes around. Specifically this one; Error Code 70008 Message The provided authorization code or refresh token has expired due to inactivity. Send a new interactive authorization request for this user and resource. Remediation Expected - auth codes, refresh tokens, and sessions expire over time or are revoked by the user or an admin. The app will request a new login from the user. My expectation would be if his Azure AD token had expired then he shouldn't be able to login to the web portal with the same ID. Has anyone seen this? Any ideas on specifically troubleshooting this with respect to applications rather than just access? Ideas welcome. Stephen157KViews0likes6CommentsRe: Searching email not working on both Outlook Desktop and O365 web based mail
angyalb Its supported. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/new-moverequest?view=exchange-ps The difference is that on-prem you specify a destination for the mailbox. In the cloud the move request happens but to whatever server Microsoft choose. You can validate the move afterwards by comparing the database name and the server has changed.28KViews1like2CommentsRe: showInAddressBook attribute
I dislike questions without solutions, Here is what we looked at. Some PowerShell may have solved the issue. Something like this. $CorrectUser = get-AdUser “workinguser” -Properties * Foreach($AddressBookListing in $CorrectUser.ShowInAddressBook){Set-AdUser notworkinguser -Add @{ShowInAddressBook=$AddressBookListing}} In theory this should have populated the AD entry. It didn't. So we output the working user and pasted the value using the GUI. I was mostly worried about the Exchange Recipient Update Service overwriting it. However, this worry was misplaced. At least here are some ideas if you see this.25KViews1like0CommentsshowInAddressBook attribute
I am looking for a bit of expertise on Exchange attributes. I have a user who is reporting he is not appearing in the GAL. He is not hidden according to Exchange. His mailbox is there. It can even receive email. He is in same groups and ou of working users and get-mailbox | fl shows him as the same as other users. After some digging I discovered an AD attribute called "showInAddressBook". It was blank. My understanding is that this is supposed to contain an LDAP value(s) showing which address books the user is supposed to be in. Logically I can understand if this is blank then it means it won't show anywhere. The "Exchange Recipient Update Service" is named as what is supposed to update it. I can also see a cmdlet called "Update-Recipient". The cmdlet documentation suggests that it will populate AD with Exchange attributes. My question is relatively straightforward. Before I run this does anyone know if this cmdlet will fix the "showInAddressBook" and populate it with correct values. Alternatively, how is this done manually? Its all a bit of a mystery. I am contempating creating a VM to build a scenario of broken AD record where it's blank but before I do I thought I would ask.An error occurred
One of the most frustrating things in the Skype for Business client is lack of meaningful error messages. We have an on-prem environment and a user adds a colleague to a Skype call. All PC to PC. Then they get "An error occurred". No clue as to what the error is. No codes. Nothing. However, this seems to be it for this client. I have the logs. I know which users are involved. I suspect this is the url that is storing the metadata on the server side. However, if anyone has any ideas of the sort of things I should look for in the logs then that would be of great help. Unfortunately I can't post the log here. Just want some ideas.648Views0likes0CommentsRe: AADSTS70008 when trying to activate Office Applications
Just to add to this. The problem was eventually tracked to office activation. Specifically removing this registry key in Office proved to be the winner. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office\16\Common\Identity The Microsoft documentation to support this is here; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/activation/reset-office-365-proplus-activation-state I hope it helps someone else stumbling onto this post.151KViews1like1CommentRe: New Exchange Admin Center (Dec 2020)
VasilMichev I work on a large Government tenant in the UK. Scaling is an issue. The "feedback" button only points you to help files and raising a support case on my tenant. We have a protocol for support cases here. I will talk to my escalation team but I wanted to highlight that there are performance issues.1.3KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Rename category greyed out for mailbox delegate
stephen_dxc122 Just to let people know. It turns out the article means shared personal mailboxes not shared (ie multiuser) mailboxes. Microsoft confirmed this via a case I raised. I hope they make that more explicit in the support article.28KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Rename category greyed out for mailbox delegate
VasilMichev I will take a look. Although I would be a little surprised. In Exchange Online the shared mailboxes are unlicensed so logging onto them as a mailbox would seem the same as "Open another mailbox" from the web. We tried that and it didn't help. Just my thought. My own test tenant worked fine with automapping so again I am not sure. However, at this point I don't dismiss anything.27KViews0likes0CommentsRename category greyed out for mailbox delegate
Hi I have an issue with a user who came to me and said she could not rename a category in a calendar. After looking at this the user was a delegate to a shared mailbox in Exchange Online. She had full access at mailbox level. On a different tenant I used my own account as an administrator and found in a shared mailbox I could rename categories. I gave myself access to her shared mailbox and found I couldn't rename categories. In both cases I have got Full Access at mailbox level. She has full access at mailbox level. I consulted Microsoft documentation. I found this link. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/918717/you-cannot-change-a-user-s-categories-when-you-work-as-a-delegate-in-o#:~:text=Create%20or%20delete%20categories%20in%20a%20shared%20folder.,the%20Permissions%20Level%20box%2C%20and%20then%20click%20OK. The summary seems to be you need "editor" permission in a calendar to edit categories. So is this right if a delegate has Full Access at mailbox level. I can't quite get my head around the idea that editor would be giving her lower permission in calendar than the rest of the mailbox. I also can't explain why my test tenant seemed fine with just full access. Before I go back and set her up as "Editor" I really want to understand what is happening here and I would be grateful if anyone can expand on Microsoft's support documentation. Thank you. StephenSolved28KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Searching email not working on both Outlook Desktop and O365 web based mail
BemmelenPatrick It made no sense to me that both Outlook desktop search and Outlook web search were broken. The two are different. One using Windows and one using the web services. One thing did connect them. The mailbox. Potentially the mailbox was broken in some form. I decided to move the mailbox between servers with the new-moverequest cmdlet. After waiting a while for it to complete the user could suddenly use both searches. I don't have a full explanation for this just that it was a way for me to make sure that the problem wasn't on the database on O365 in an easy way without raising a Microsoft incident. This is really just to document this worked because I don't like going to forums where how it was fixed is not documented.55KViews4likes4CommentsRe: Searching email not working on both Outlook Desktop and O365 web based mail
BemmelenPatrick Thanks. Its not OWA (I guess you mean the traditional light version) it's the Outlook web based O365 mail. I needed some place to start and figure this out so I will go and read the links.54KViews0likes6CommentsSearching email not working on both Outlook Desktop and O365 web based mail
I have a user who tells me search isn't working in Outlook 2016. They go into the inbox and start a search for a user by typing in their surname and the error is “Something went wrong and your search couldn’t be completed.” This is OK at one level. It looks like indexing and possibly a broken Windows Search. Maybe look at fixing the service or look at making sure the June 2017 security updates have been applied. I could live with this and look at the client side. However, in troubleshooting the issue I wanted to see if web based Outlook would provide a workaround for the user. They tried the same search on the web, just typing a surname into the search bar, and the error "Your request can't be completed right now. Please try again later." appeared. My understanding was that Outlook desktop search depending on the Windows OS and Outlook on the web used a totally different web based search. Now I am a little confused. I expected the web based search to work. Are these two different problems at exactly the same time? Is web based search somehow using a DLL or function on the PC browser that might lead to this issue? I would be interested as to any thoughts on this. In particular is there a good documentation link about how Microsoft search works in Office 365 web based mail. Thank you. StephenSolved55KViews0likes8CommentsSet-SyncMailbox cmdlet failed
In Office 365 I have this error message in the GUI. Exchange: The execution of cmdlet Set-SyncMailbox failed. Exchange: An unknown error has occurred. I have looked for this cmdlet and haven't been able to find it yet. Does anyone have a reference to this?Solved92KViews0likes5CommentsRe: Using a Shared Mailbox to manage team tasks
VasilMichev I understand the principle of why it might be an issue. I dont know if planner would provide the same solution. The question is really about this scenario. They are doing this and sometimes it doesnt work. I am interested in some docs that might discuss whether it's even possible.13KViews0likes0Comments
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