How to make Azure AD Connect disable expired accounts
AADC doesn’t process AD account expiry at all – here’s a guide explaining how to make it do it!
Category Archives: Guides
Reporting Web Service for Office 365
There’s an interesting web service that could be used to pull reporting data from Office 365, assuming you can authenticate using your tenancy’s service admin. Here’s the URL for the service: https://reports.office365.com/ecp/reportingwebservice/reporting.svc/ Microsoft provide a plug-in to Excel that uses this service and it can be used to pull mail protection statistics from your Office… Read More »
File extension for Windows Language Packs
For some reason I had a mental block and couldn’t seem to remember this, but instead of using dism to install language packs on Windows 7 or above, like this… dism /online /add-package /packagepath:<path to language pack .cab file> …you can also simply rename the .cab language pack file to have the .mlc file extension and double-click it.… Read More »
Secrets of configuring DHCP policies for Lync handsets alongside other vendors
After battling with a non-Microsoft DHCP server to get it to configure multiple vendors of handset I figured out some very useful undocumented ‘habits’ of Lync handsets which might help someone else… 1. Lync handsets (e.g. the Polycom CX600) use TWO vendor IDs during their DHCP requests The first vendor ID that is used during… Read More »
Use a D-Link DIR-825 to automatically IPv6 your network
(Please note this article is very out-of-date as D-Link trickled out a new version of software for this router which changes its ipv6 functionality and completely fixes the ipv6 router advertisement issue – here is an EU beta version that I found after scouring the d-link forums: DIR-825 2.05EU, and I think the US version is… Read More »