Crammy's Blog https://crammysblog.com/ Every day is a school day! Fri, 22 Jul 2022 04:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://crammysblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/cropped-mstile-310x310-32x32.png Crammy's Blog https://crammysblog.com/ 32 32 Rescue 3CX Bad IP Whitelist for Management Console Access https://crammysblog.com/rescue-3cx-bad-ip-whitelist-for-management-console-access/ https://crammysblog.com/rescue-3cx-bad-ip-whitelist-for-management-console-access/#respond Fri, 22 Jul 2022 04:05:04 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=541 Had to rescue a 3CX management console where the Whitelist IP address had changed and kept getting access denied with good credentials.  The following process gave temporary access to change the Whitelist/Restricted IP address. Caveats: 3CX hosted in Azure 3CX running Linux Didn’t know the Root password Steps: Using Azure portal create a new root …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/which-tls-to-use/feed/ 0 Easy Find OU in a DistinguishedName with PowerShell https://crammysblog.com/easy-find-ou-in-a-distinguishedname-with-powershell/ https://crammysblog.com/easy-find-ou-in-a-distinguishedname-with-powershell/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:15:49 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=494 There are a couple of ways to find the OU of an Object, some are long-winded ways splitting and counting characters.  The best way I’ve come up with for a quick and case insensitive check: [crayon-69cc99e9337af901229349/] A better example of the use in code: [crayon-69cc99e9337b6830207891/] The Case Culture fixes up the compare of string being …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/easy-find-ou-in-a-distinguishedname-with-powershell/feed/ 0 Times you need to cut and Paste within VMWare ESXi Hosts https://crammysblog.com/times-you-need-to-cut-and-paste-within-vmware-esxi-hosts/ https://crammysblog.com/times-you-need-to-cut-and-paste-within-vmware-esxi-hosts/#respond Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:27:41 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=483 I use the RDP session cut and paste all the time to get files to remote servers but this is not an option to servers in the DMZ hosted on VMWare ESxi.  It seems the answer is easy when you enable a similar function in VMWare ESXi console.  Cut and paste made easy at last! …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/times-you-need-to-cut-and-paste-within-vmware-esxi-hosts/feed/ 0 The pain of TLS 1.2 with PowerShell module for Azure Active Directory (MSOnline) https://crammysblog.com/the-pain-of-tls-1-2-with-powershell-module-for-azure-active-directory-msonline/ https://crammysblog.com/the-pain-of-tls-1-2-with-powershell-module-for-azure-active-directory-msonline/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2018 06:22:23 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=469 Building labs in a hurry sometimes can bite you with recent changes in Office 365 connections.  I just got hit with a problem with PowerShell module for Azure Active Directory not connecting: [crayon-69cc99e9338f1951504414/] The problem relates to the connection type from a very unpatched (on purpose) Windows 2016 lab server for developing a Powershell script against …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/the-pain-of-tls-1-2-with-powershell-module-for-azure-active-directory-msonline/feed/ 7 How to use DNS Pin Point instead Split Horizon – the easy way! https://crammysblog.com/an-easy-way-of-dns-split-horizon-without-duplicating-every-host-record/ https://crammysblog.com/an-easy-way-of-dns-split-horizon-without-duplicating-every-host-record/#respond Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:13:03 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=439 Background on the DNS issue faced There are times when DNS split horizon is required to point an ‘A’ record to an internal address however this normally requires you to duplicate every record in the zone on the internal DNS server.  For example autodiscover.company.com without needing the whole domain of company.com being duplicated on the …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/change-office-365-app-password/feed/ 1 Quickly Adding Active Directory Group Members using a LDAP filter https://crammysblog.com/quickly-adding-active-directory-group-members-using-ldap-filter/ https://crammysblog.com/quickly-adding-active-directory-group-members-using-ldap-filter/#respond Tue, 02 May 2017 05:50:42 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=422 There are times when you need a quick one-liner to add Active Directory group membership based on users selected by some data. In this case I needed to move AD users into AD Distribution lists based on their email (mail attribute) externally managed information. The following script finds the users be looking at the LDAP …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/quickly-adding-active-directory-group-members-using-ldap-filter/feed/ 0 How to remove the SMTP Service from Windows 2012 R2 https://crammysblog.com/how-to-remove-the-smtp-service-from-windows-2012-r2/ https://crammysblog.com/how-to-remove-the-smtp-service-from-windows-2012-r2/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:15:43 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=365 How to remove the SMTP Service from Windows 2012 R2… Had to install a SMTP gateway on a Windows 2012 R2 host which already had OS SMTP service installed for testing a firewall.  Normally, I would have removed via Windows Features/Roles system but the option to remove feature wad greyed out.  However, using PowerShell I was able …

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]]> https://crammysblog.com/how-to-remove-the-smtp-service-from-windows-2012-r2/feed/ 2 Mac Outlook 2016 Screen/View Crashed and Flashing black https://crammysblog.com/mac-outlook-2016-screenview-crashed-and-flashing-black/ https://crammysblog.com/mac-outlook-2016-screenview-crashed-and-flashing-black/#respond Sun, 03 Jan 2016 05:05:42 +0000 https://crammysblog.com/?p=353 The Outlook 2016 client has been trusted workhorse for email since the full release.  However the latest version 15.17.1 seemed to have a strange flashing and crashed view window.  It even lost the header and was unable to show a preview plane.  The solution was easy fix without hurting the mail profile. Run up Terminal window …

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