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 sources on what their interpretation of these is, and they paraphrase what they think an […]
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 it’s the same domain or another domain they have setup […]
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 installed on the physical host, plus 2 more copies of the OS on […]
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 “Something went wrong and outlook […]
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 the email accounts. One of the key security measures is implementing MFA. SET […]
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: https://eastus2.cloudbackup.barracudanetworks.com/ 2. Go to PROTECT>EXCHANGE 3. Select the date from which you want to restore/export the […]
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 cores. Specifically when adding on top of the […]
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 very easy to setup and assign to an Office 365 […]
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 not properly implemented, make sure to consult a Cloud Security Expert at […]
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 nothing needed to be archived except […]
