Kevin Oppihle's Tech Notes

Log onto your DNS Made easy to the proper domain and start adding your record Enter in the name and an IP. You can use any IP to confirm it is really working such as 8.8.8.8 or 70.70.70.70 the most important part is to put in your DNS password (whatever) and enable Dynamic DNS as shown below: NOTE: If you need it online “ NOW ” and can’t wait for the default “1800 TTL” for the record to change from 8.8.8.8 or any other incorrect address then use the real IP address. If you use a fake IP you probably want to browse to it first to make sure you don’t redirect people to a questionable or malicious site Once you hit submit it create a DNS ID. You will need that DNS ID and Password later for dynsite setup: Download DynSite DNS app from the link below. http://noeld.com/dynsite.asp Please note: This is not the most modern looking GUI or application, but it works and is endorsed by DNSMadeEasy and the cost is minimal. Install the program on the server that needs dynamic DNS or another server...

Mitel main phone system reboot Middle Button once Down arrow to “System Menu” Middle button to select “System Menu” Down arrow to “Reboot” Middle button to select “Reboot” Down arrow to “Yes” Middle button to select “Yes” Reboot usually takes less than 5 minutes If you accidently power it off instead of reboot to power it back on select the middle button

Open Word or Excel Open a blank document Click on “File”, “Options”, “Save”, and check “Save to Computer by default” as shown below and click “OK” at the bottom of that window to save the setting: If you have an alternate location you may want to change the “Default local file location as well” such as a network my documents redirected path mapping. Now the next time you click “save as” you will notice it now goes to “This PC” rather than OneDrive:

Here is the article from Trend on the original process some settings are not the same such as the after installation check of the registry to make sure it installed correctly: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1056560 Here is the most important parts left out you need to know. The Trend Micro Worry Free for Macs console “Plug in” is a completely different console NO settings are shared between the original console and the Plug. So you will have to set up all of the settings for Mac from scratch. Install the latest Java on your Trend Micro management server before attempting to install the Plug In: Once you install Java and enable the Plug in you will download the “Trend Micro Security (for Mac)” Plug in: Once the Plug in completes the download you install the Plug in on the server. (this is not the workstation installer) After installation you manage the Macs exclusively using an alternate console by clicking on “Manage Program” under the “Preferences” and “Plug-Ins”: You will se...

Since this is a Windows Defender update it cannot be easily rolled back. User experience slowness that makes the PC appear to be not working as even the simplest tasks take significant amounts of time to complete. It is like your PC is working but at 1% of its speed. The problem is that Windows Defender update severely conflicts with Trend Micro Worry Free Agents using a local management server. The Worry Free Saas product appears unaffected by the issue. Trend Micro support is aware of the problem and working on a fix to Microsoft’s update. In the meantime the temporary fix is to disable Windows Defender active scanning following the steps below. Note: You can uninstall Trend Worry Free Agent however then you are leaving your systems vulnerable. Using the server console to remove the Trend agent will not work effectively and you will have to manually remove the agent on each system which could take 30 minutes or more per system due to the performance issues. Caution: it’s the regis...

Create a separate One Drive “Cloud Administrator” account and assign a 365 license to the account. From the file server open Http://portal.office.com and log on using the Cloud Administrator account Once logged on select One Drive as shown below: Once it sets up your One Drive you can select “Your OneDrive is ready” In the OneDrive Menu select Sync as shown below: Click Allow this website to open an app: It will pop up the following “Getting Ready to sync…” if nothing happens or if you get prompted that you need an app. Then it does not have the proper version already on the system you may have to click on “Get the latest version of OneDrive as: You should then see the following to enter in your Cloud Admin account and sign in: You will get prompted with a password logon for Office 365 which will require that same account Sign in. Then you will see the following which we will redirect to the folder we want to sync by selecting “Change Location” In this case I will go to the D:\...

Create a separate One Drive “Cloud Administrator” account and assign a 365 license to the account and setup the One Drive Share sync. Once that is done to edit cloud permissions: From the file server open Http://portal.office.com and log on using the “Cloud Administrator” account Once logged on select One Drive as shown below: It will open your One Drive Business share: To change permissions, select the check box to the left of the file or folder as shown below: Right Click and select Details as shown below: You will notice on the right side the file details scroll down to “Sharing” as shown below: That will expand to show you the file or folder permissions from there you can add people, stop sharing to that person, or revise read/write permissions as shown below: CAUTION: These are One Drive share permissions ONLY this will not impact your share permissions internally on the file share those permissions should be modified as well. Note: I would recommend using fo...

Depending on what other backup, build, or restoration solutions you have in place you may see a “virtual disk is not a multiple of…” error when backing up with Veeam. The error sounds quite ominous like a major disk issue on the host. The good news is it ends up it is a quick fix on the VM using the GUI interface. Open up the VM settings and resize the virtual drive from the weird size such as 79.435346435 GB to 80GB and the same for the secondary or other disks for example 250.45346324GB to 251GB. Then access the VM and expanded the drives via the OS. If it is already a “normal” drive size try going up another drive size for example 80GB to 81GB and expand the drive in the OS. Then test the backup job. Credit: Veeam KB article https://www.veeam.com/kb1848

There are several tools out there to migrate your email from Thunderbird to PST that you can then import into Office. Many of them are pay per license. I would stay clear of the freeware version. One pay version that I am familiar with is: http://www.thunderbirdtooutlook.com/description/ It does a decent job of exporting/importing. Note: In the case of my imports there was a lot of malware hidden in the old Thunderbird email that my Antivirus found and quarantined as it was exporting. So I would recommend you make sure your Antivirus is online and up to date. Importing contacts however from Thunderbird can be time consuming due to the fact that Thunderbird and Office use different headers for the categories. Once I exported from Thunderbird to a CSV file I edit it with excel and changed the headers to match what Office is expecting. That avoids manually mapping during the import process. I was then able to cut and paste the header to all the exports and import them into Office sea...

Creating the configuration XML can be a time consuming and multiple test and fail process before your finally get what you want for that ONE deployment. Luckily now there is a tool for that and it is located here: https://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html This tool will create a complex XML file for you allowing you to select version, excluded programs, remove products, configuration manager support, custom options, update options, silent mode, EULA, logging and even includes templates and an installation toolkit. Credit: Jason Powell

Malicious macro exploits have been a security issue for Office since the day macros were introduced. There are lots of legitimate work flow macros, so you cannot by default disable all macros in all Office programs. In the past you could create trusted macro locations within your network or system to add a layer of protection and prevention from malicious macros running. GPO- Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Office XXX 20XX/Application Settings/Security/Trust Center/Trusted Locations The latest threat though, with the added use of cloud locations, makes that harder to control and disable external document macros. While there is now an option to “Block macros from running in Office files from the Internet” unless users save the “trusted” cloud documents to a local path, designated as trusted in the GPO or system, then it may block legitimate work macros as well. So you will need to plan accordingly and remind the users “what to” and “what not to” open and where. Knowi...

With Office 365 there are many features you can enable to reduce additional spam and malware. Below are a few of the higher level settings that can compliment your existing email filtering. On your Office 365 Console open the “Exchange Admin Center” select “protection”, select “malware filter” and edit (pencil) your Default rule as shown below: The rule above is a more severe setting that deletes the full email with known potential malware type extensions. You can however make it more end user admin friendly by using the other settings to strip the attachment instead and alert the reciever that is was removed. Note: Don’t forget to hit “Save” in the bottom right hand corner In the same “protection” section select “connection filter” and “enable safe list” to allow Office 365 known safe senders as shown below: Note: Don’t forget to hit “Save” in the bottom right hand corner In the same “protection” section select “spam filter” and updated your “allow list” with senders and domains to...