Technical Support for the GTA
Problem: You want to give someone access to another user’s OneDrive Solution: Sign in to the admin center as a global admin or SharePoint admin.If you get a message that you don’t have permission to access the admin center, then you don’t Continue reading OneDrive – Giving someone access to someone else’s OneDrive
Problem: Client wanted to change every user’s calendar to review only. Solution: Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName navin@contoso.com $users = Get-Mailbox -Resultsize Unlimited foreach ($user in $users) { Write-Host -ForegroundColor green Setting permission for $($user.alias)… Set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity $($user.alias):\calendar -User Default -AccessRights Reviewer } Continue reading Office 365 – Change default calendar to Reviewer
Problem: You wish to have an external sender message Solution: Microsoft recently introduced the option of creating one internally rather than through rules: (h/t alitajran.com) Add tag to external emails in Microsoft 365 for extra security You like to secure Continue reading External Sender
Problem: Microsoft’s classic ECM is acting all funky and you can’t create retention tags or policies without an error. Solution: (h/t That Lazy Admin) How to create Retention Tags and Policies using Powershell Connect to Exchange Powershell using the Quick Continue reading Office 365 – Creating new retention tags and policies via PowerShell
Problem: In this particular case, user was running Office Standard 2016 and I upgraded to Office 365 Business Apps. Upon checking the account, it still showed as Standard. This also affected the Online Archive mailbox in Outlook. Solution: (h/t https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-uninstall-microsoft-office-product-key) Continue reading Office is showing older version instead of the updated version
Problem: OneDrive won’t uninstall Answer: Open Regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\OneDrive, and delete it Also find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OneDrive, and delete it Also find C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive and delete it Then go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe to reinstall Have the user login to OneDrive Go into portal.office.com, Continue reading OneDrive won’t uninstall
Problem: Users cannot connect to site from and admin perspective through SSH Solution: Using VI Connect to the server via SSH vi /etc/hosts.allow Once you are inside the file, to start editing press “i” Add a record sshd:IP Address (eg: Continue reading Allowing SSH from a specific IP
Problem: When you try deleting a folder from within SharePoint, the option for deletion just simply isn’t there. If you go to Classic mode, the option is there but you’ll get an error message telling you that you must delete Continue reading Can’t Delete a SharePoint Site folder
Problem: You have a Microsoft Forms form that you want to have a daily output on. Basically, every day, you want to pull all the data from an MS Forms form and output to a unique file with the date/timestamp Continue reading Creating daily logs of Forms responses in Office 365
Problem: You set someone up in Office 365 (this happened with a pre-existing account) and changed the domain away from onmicrosoft.com You get the following error: exchange.data.storage.databasenotfoundexception Solution: Change the user’s default login name to user@domain.onmicrosoft.com, wait a few and Continue reading OWA in Office 365 comes back with a 500 error