Kevin Oppihle's Tech Notes

ADMT  received the following error when merging accounts from 2 domains. I found that the domains being from different countries had different letters/accents.  The destination domain had Standard American characters for the usernames for example: Jeroma Cotec However on the source domain was: Jérôma Cotéç That caused the error above. We renamed the source domain user to standard US characters and the user merged with no issues. Jeroma Cotec

 NOTE: SMTP service is depreciated in Server 2022 however it still works if modified as listed below. To install SMTP services and not other unneeded IIS tools on Server 2022 Open Powershell as administrator and run Install-WindowsFeature -Name SMTP-Server Set-Service SMTPSVC -StartupType Automatic Net Stop SMTPSVC Net Stop IISADMIN Make a Backup Copy of  “C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml” Copy “C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml” to Documents and Edit Find: <IIsSmtpServer Location =“/LM/SmtpSvc/1” Add (Settings are alphabetical): RelayIpList=“” Save File Replace “C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\MetaBase.xml” with edit copy Net Start IISAdmin Net Start SMTPSVC After configuring your SMTP server: To test SMTP flow install Telnet via Powershell: Install-WindowsFeature -Name Telnet-Client telnet smtp.clientdomain.com 25   (or IP) EHLO yourdomain.com MAIL FROM: internalsender@clientdomain.com RCPT TO: externalrecipient@testdomain.com DATA From: internalsender@clientdomain.com

  Open CMD Prompt as an administrator and browse to the following folder If this folder exists you are likely running 32 bit: cd c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ If this folder exists you are likely running 64 bit: cd c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\ From either folder run the following command: cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus It will then show you the Office version information: Credit: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/troubleshoot/licensing/determine-office-license-type?tabs=windows

When installing the printer even as an administrator on the PC it fails to complete with error 740  Open up a command prompt as an administrator then run the following command to open up the "add a device" printer installation wizard: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il Select the printer and the installation should complete properly with elevated credentials.

  In Azure AD Sync you get the following 8344 Insufficient access rights to perform the operation on one or multiple accounts: Go to ADUC and right click on your domain to open Properties. Go the Security Tab and confirm the account that is used for synchronization has the following permissions: If still having the issue, I have found that if your sub OU or users are blocking inheritance that can also block the permissions from applying to the lower OU’s. Here is an example of proper setting in an sub OU. Note it says “Disable Inheritance” indicating inherence is properly enabled: Note: Inheritance may be disabled for another reason so please confirm with your Administrative team before revising. Worse case you can manually add those permissions without enabling inheritence.   The same can happen to an individual user. In this case Inheritance is disabled thus the option displayed to “Enable Inheritance” :

  When you access your 365 Exchange mail trace and run a query it will show the “Go Hunt for this message” option.       However if you don’t have the proper Microsoft Defender Licensing it appears to fail the hunt: For a more manual FREE method of clear those messages out such as the one in the image below we can use the Compliance Features. From Admin Centers Open Compliance: Content Search: Name and Description (Shorter name is easier for script later)   I am only removing from Exchange in this instance:  I selected Query Build so I can customize for my query:  Confirm/Submit: You can monitor it from the Content Search and open it once status is complete:   Double click to open the results: Reminder: If your query legitimate or not contains more than 10 emails per mailbox or more that 50,000 mailboxes this will not work! If you have more than 10 it may only delete the first 10 it finds. If you run it over and over again it still won’t remove any m