by ProTek IT Solutions | Nov 7, 2024 | Cyber Security
In today’s digital landscape, where cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated, implementing robust cybersecurity defenses is no longer optional—it’s imperative. With cybercriminals constantly evolving their tactics, companies must stay one step ahead to...
by Quoc | Jan 25, 2024 | news, Office 365, Software development
Cisco Meraki is the only network appliance brand that we are aware of that prevents you from taking any pre-owned/used Meraki appliance like a firewall or switch and just factory resetting it and being able to use it for yourself. All Cisco Meraki devices are managed...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Office 365
Microsoft’s definitions of “Internal Users” and “External Users” – specifically as it applies to the External Connector License VS a standard Windows Server User CAL – are somewhat vague and overlap. You can Google and find many descriptions from various...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 email (Exchange), allows you to change email addresses on the fly as the “From” address in both Outlook and Outlook Web. Specifically if a user has multiple email addresses setup as aliases to be able to receive emails from those accounts, whether...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Office 365
When a server is purchased with an OEM Windows Server license, it should come pre-activated. If you create Windows VMs on that server the licenses may not automatically activate. (Microsoft Windows Server licensing model allows for one instance of the Windows OS...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Office 365
Ran into odd issue with a non-Azure AD joined computer (in this case, it was an RDS server) and signing in to Microsoft Apps on just ONE user's profile would not work, I couldn't figure out why. When trying to sign in to Outlook it would fail with this error...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Office 365
ProTek IT Solutions has migrated hundreds of mailboxes to Microsoft Office 365 from every possible email platform like Google, Plesk, CPanel and much more. In implementing each Office 365 account we configure best security practices to prevent a compromise of any of...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Backup Restore, Office 365
Barracuda’s cloud-cloud backup service has three ways you can access the backed-up Office 365 email data: • Export to file(s) • Restore to original location • Restore to new location STARTING EXCHANGE RESTORES/EXPORTS: 1. Open Barracuda cloud-to-cloud backup portal:...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Office 365
A user complained of not receiving an email to his Gmail account, his 365 email address was set to CC his Gmail account on all incoming mail. Looking in to this we found that the email did arrive to his 365 account but the transport rule to CC his gmail account failed...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Data Centers / Servers
A confusion that has come up many a time regarding how to license Windows Servers when adding virtual machines on the Per Core licensing model as opposed to the old school deprecated method when you just had to license virtual machines and there was no thought about...
