by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Windows Server
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 | Outlook
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...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Cyber Security, 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 | Uncategorized
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...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Microsoft Office 365 Basic, Standard and Exchange Online Plan only come with 50GB Mailboxes and up to 50GB Archive Storage. Whereas most other plans like Microsoft Office 365 Premium, Office 365 E3, Microsoft Office 365 E3, Exchange Online Plan 2 and many others come...
by Quoc | Jan 10, 2024 | Azure
Microsoft Office 365 Power Automate has 2 different pricing models, a fixed monthly price or a Pay-As-You-Go per flow pricing model. See the article below and scroll down to see the per flow prices: Pricing | Microsoft Power Automate The fixed monthly pricing model is...
by Quoc | Jan 4, 2024 | Dropbox, Resources
ProTek IT solutions can help you navigate the potential problems and pitfalls when trying to properly use Dropbox for Business. When using Dropbox a business needs to be fully aware of the caveats, potential data integrity and security issues present when Dropbox is...
by Quoc | Jan 4, 2024 | Office 365, Resources
We ran into the oddest scenario when trying to just apply an Office 365 Online Archiving Retention Tag to just the Deleted Items folder. The customer has about 5 years of history in the Deleted Items folder and he was very diligent about cleaning up his inbox and so...
