@dbeato said in Add External Contact to Shared Mailbox. Office 365.:

You also might be able to unify the domains in one Office 365 account instead and have two domains in it.

This is what I have. Several domains in one O365 tenant.

@siringo said in Add External Contact to Shared Mailbox. Office 365.:

I have an external user that needs access to a shared mailbox within Office 365.

I have a client that runs two businesses with the one set of staff. Half the employees have [email protected], the others have [email protected] addresses.

Some employees are shared between the businesses, so a user may have the address [email protected], but needs to monitor a mailbox for the other business such as [email protected].

From what I can see you can't add contacts to a shared mailbox.

I'm hoping someone may have come across this problem before and may be able to help me out with a solution.

Thanks.

I now have 8 brands shared across the entire company. I know the struggle. Thank God I don't have to do shared contacts in Outlook.

As a normal user (NOT Admin), you can go here-
https://protection.office.com/quarantine

But, how do you get there from the main Office 365 home screen?

@JaredBusch I didn't get any errors on their site. No pi-hole here.

@DustinB3403 Looks interesting. I am going to check it out.

@DustinB3403 said in Video Conferencing Hardware - Suggestions?:

@wrx7m said in Video Conferencing Hardware - Suggestions?:

@dbeato Thanks. highfive.com seems to be having some performance issues ATM.

Edit: Working now.

I thought it was just me too, as I clicked on their link and the website just didn't load.

lol. Every 5th refresh it would display some words but the CSS wasn't working.

@dbeato Thanks. highfive.com seems to be having some performance issues ATM.

Edit: Working now.

We are upgrading our conference rooms and I was wondering what hardware I should look at for video conferencing. We currently use SFB/Teams, but are almost certainly moving to Slack. We also have meetings with people on a variety of other platforms i.e. GoToMeeting, Webex, Zoom, etc.

Any suggestions for the hardware to utilize these services?

@NashBrydges said in Leveraging Veeam Cloud Tier - Backups To Wasabi:

@wrx7m said in Leveraging Veeam Cloud Tier - Backups To Wasabi:

I upload Veeam backups to Wasabi (and before that, S3) outside of Veeam. I pull down the backups and import them back into Veeam, via the import feature.

I would like to see how well it works when everything is natively done in Veeam. If that is even possible.

How do you upload your backups to Wasabi? Are you using a 3rd party tool?

Yeah. I use a file compare tool called, BeyondCompare that runs on a windows task schedule.

I upload Veeam backups to Wasabi (and before that, S3) outside of Veeam. I pull down the backups and import them back into Veeam, via the import feature.

I would like to see how well it works when everything is natively done in Veeam. If that is even possible.

@Curtis said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

@wrx7m said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

How often does Cloudflare stop working?

Who cares? Use two different providers.

I was wondering how often he experienced outages with Cloudflare. I haven't noticed anything.

@dbeato said in Pi-Hole Upstream DNS Providers:

I use CloudFlare, Google and OPENDNS. I have need to do this when CloudFlare at some moments stops working.

How often does Cloudflare stop working?

@scottalanmiller said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

@wrx7m said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

@scottalanmiller said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

@JaredBusch said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

And it is something we have discussed before here but I cannot find the thread.
Personally, I always make it look at itself first, because its own services are supposed to be functional. I mean that is what the rule is for a single DC. So why would it matter if it was a second DC?
AD should keep the DNS in sync. Otherwise, why use AD in the first place?

I do the same. Point to self first, failover second. This is faster and the logic for the alternative doesn't seem to make sense. Both work, of course, the only thing that is really impacted is performance.

I thought it was set to the another first, for the replication aspect.

Replication is from the database, not from DNS resolution.

Ahh. I thought it was pulling the DNS server info from those settings. But, I guess it wouldn't make sense to do that.

@scottalanmiller said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

@JaredBusch said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

And it is something we have discussed before here but I cannot find the thread.
Personally, I always make it look at itself first, because its own services are supposed to be functional. I mean that is what the rule is for a single DC. So why would it matter if it was a second DC?
AD should keep the DNS in sync. Otherwise, why use AD in the first place?

I do the same. Point to self first, failover second. This is faster and the logic for the alternative doesn't seem to make sense. Both work, of course, the only thing that is really impacted is performance.

I thought it was set to the another first, for the replication aspect.

I guess it hasn't been resolved. I thought it had.

@scottalanmiller said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

@EddieJennings said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

@DustinB3403 said in Domain Controller DNS settings order - best practice?:

I generally set these up to look for another first as well, and use the loopback as the second entry.

That's what I've always done. I vaguely remember seeing an article from Microsoft about it, but memory is telling me that article was ancient.

Microsoft had conflicting articles on it

Yeah, I am pretty sure that I remember them saying to point to itself first quite some time ago.

Edit: I know that is not what you should do.

Circling back to GPP. Thanks to @FiyaFly , who was able to help me out with the syntax for the fields. Do not use quotes in the target or start in paths.
Target Path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Arguments:

--incognito --proxy-server=squid1.domain.com:3128 --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Squid1\User Data"

Start in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\

I also used the create option and desktop (standard, not all users desktop).

@FiyaFly said in Creating a Shortcut for Chrome Incognito with Proxy Settings:

$TargetFile = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
$args = '--incognito --proxy-server=squid1.domain.com:3128 --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Squid1\User Data"'
$ShortcutFile = "$env:UserProfile\Desktop\chrome1.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.Arguments = $args
$Shortcut.Save()

The arguments is what was needed. Thanks!

I am trying to see if I can use PS to create the shortcuts. Not sure how to get this path to work with the quotes it needs.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --incognito --proxy-server=squid1.domain.com:3128 --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Squid1\User Data"

This is the template I am using.

# Create a Shortcut with Windows PowerShell
$TargetFile = "$env:SystemRoot\System32\notepad.exe"
$ShortcutFile = "$env:Public\Desktop\Notepad.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.Save()

Still can't get these GPP to work, although, I am now getting an error in the GPR- 0x80070002