Running Microsoft office 365 with several users ? – several subscriptions ?
I do – I have many users on different subscription plan (some Exchange only other E1 / E3 etc)
If you need a license overview – who uses what subscrip.
I found and ran this script/ VBS file get-msoluserlicence.ps1 – the output will be a CVS file, with a overview of all users and which subscription they use.
Thank you Microsoft 🙂
Office 365 / SkyDrive Pro / Sharepoint
First check all SharePoint Online sites has been upgraded to the new 2013 version
Sharepoint admin :
If the Sharepoint version says 2010 – you site needs to be upgraded!.
I had a empty site – it took about 10 min.
see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-help/upgrade-a-site-collection-HA102865473.aspx
Second)When a user tries to access SkyDrive Pro or Sharepoint he gets this error:
“An error occurred when the personal website was created. Contact the site administrator for more information.”
Sharepoint admin -> User Profiles ->Manager User Permissions >
“Create Personal Site..” ON (Default shoud be ON)
Third)
When I user tried to access SkyDrivePro he gets “We are almost ready…”
I’ve tried to remove the Sharepoint license from the user – waited 30 min. and re-attached it.
no luck
Going to wait 24h to see if it helps..
To be continued
..
It took about 1h for 1 Account, 12h for an other.
(And other accounts will work almost instantly …)
The user will receive a mail from MS when its ready..
“Welcome to Sharepoint…”
When you boot a new Mac – there will typical be updates available via “Software Update”
iPhoto and iMovie however want to upgrade via App store (requires log-in)
I hate this – I want all programs to upgrade via “software update”, I found
a solution somewhere on the net.
Open the terminal and run those commands – and voila
the 2 programs will upgrade via “software update” (after a reboot)
sudo rm -rf “/Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/_MASReceipt”
sudo rm -rf “/Applications/GarageBand.app/Contents/_MASReceipt”
sudo rm -rf “/Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/_MASReceipt”
sudo mv /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Frameworks/iLife*.framework /Library/Frameworks/.
I have quite a few Mac users running the business backup solution from BackBlaze
On a user laptop I saw this error:
The Mac was NOT “offline”
The BackBlaze status (in System Preferences) showed “Frozen”.
The BackBlaze software had for a unknown reason renamed the laptop from the initial name
e.g. from :
laptopXX-2013-04-05
tolaptopXX-2013-27-05
I gave the laptop (in the BackBlaze software) the name of the owner and
restarted the backup.
The BackBlaze software must have see this laptop as a “new client” once it had
changed the name – therefore the error.
Very stange issue today.
On a brand new i7 MacBookPro – running latest OS (10.8.3) – I had user unable to
upload movies to YouTube, the upload never started – like the connection timed out.
Everything else worked – no packet loss etc.
Same issue when we made a new (clean) profile – on other Computers there where no issues uploading this movie.
Console log – contained a lot of
“acwebsecagent: Connection : Auth key is not provided, bypassing towers”
– this where caused by Cisco’s Anyconnect VPN Software (not running) – once I uninstalled this software..
sudo /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/websecurity_uninstall.sh
I had no issues uploading to YouTube again.
🙂
I had a Mac – running 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) which suddenly refused to connect to any wireless networks (even those which I had connected to before )..
The Console log file showed this error:
Invalid password (-3924 Invalid master key)
Long story short – the solution for me was to make a new “location”
System Preferences -> Network -> “Location” (New Location)
After I did this everything worked.
(I removed any info (password) related to the network in Keychain utility before,
but I think this is unnecessarily..
I had several domain in my 365 Solution where I apprentily needed to change or add the
o365 AdminPortal -> Management -> Domains
Several domains had “Setup in progress” status
I ran the domain check by clicking the “Done, go check” button
The error:
(they have been running for months with no issues)
MS want the SPF in this format:
My ISP controls my DNS, so I had to make a new SPF record there.
OLD SPF record (which worked):
@.MyDomain.com –
New SPF record to make Office 365 happy
Mydomain.Com
TTL 3600 (3600 seconds = 1h)
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all
When I re-ran the test I got
I had old Compaq PL1600 running Windows 2000 Professional – with
some ancient access control system.
{Whauuu – what a beauty running 24/7 for many many years., 9 & 4 GB WIDE ULTRA DISCS :-)}
Since the software where running on such old hardware (+10 years) I decided to virtualize it .
First I downloaded ESXI 4.1 and installed this on a Dell Optiplex 755
My Windows 2000 had SP4 – so I installed VMware Converter 4.0 as later ones does not support Win2000
(full name: VMware vCenter Converter Standalone)
My first P2V migration did fine – but when I booted the Win2000 (in ESXI)
i got a blue screen of dead.
The solution was to install this Rollup, reboot Win2000 and restart the migration process again
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891861
(the driver which needed a upgrade where apparently: scsiport.sys)
Now my Win2000 where able to start , I got one device connected to the serial port – it dident work.Removing one of the 2 serialports in my vSphere Client where the right solution.
Next step upgrading to WinXP – SP3
From the WIn2000 I started the XP installation after a while it where done and I rebooted.
My Win2000 had a account called “administrator” – but this did not show up on the XP,as MS has decided to hide this particular account in XP – IF there is a other admin. account.
and there where a ancient vendor admin account – I did not know the password and
had forgotten all about this.
rebooted in safe-mode – now I where able to see and login to my ‘administrator’ account.
I ran (from terminal)
control userpassword2
and removed the vendor account from the admin. group and rebooted and was once again able to login via my administrator account.
After loads of updates – mission accomplished
I am running OCS-Inventory as a virtual machine on a old VMware server 2.0 (running on Win2003 64bit server),
the windows server crashed big time, I could re-install the OCS (which needed a upgrade anyway) on my ESXI or try to rescue the installation .
For the fun of it – I tried to rescue the VMDK files from the crashed Windows server.
The Windows server where rebooting randomly under boot even at safe boot, I where unable to
get to the point where I could copy the VMDK files.
As I only needed the VMDK files I thought of my old friend hirens-boot’ cd.
Is a incredible useful “resuce” cd – in this case I used the “mini Windows XP” mode,
which starts up a stripped down version of WinXP.
Looks like this:
It’s including lots of useful tools
And supporting USB, which allows me to connect a USB harddisk and copy
my precious (VMware server) VMDK files to this external harddisk
Once done I connected my harddisk to a Win7 laptop with Veeam Backup & Replication (free)
I used this to copy my VMDK files to my ESXI server.
At first the Veeam software did not connect to my ESXI 4 server, because SSH where turned off. Turning SSH on can be done from the console or via the vSphere Client
Configuration->Security Profile->Properties-> Remote Tech Support (SSH)
Right click and turn SSH on.The Veeam software had now no problems copying my VMDK files to the ESXI.
Once its done – it time to fire up a SSH client and connect to the ESXI server.
ssh root@ip-of-esxi-server
cd /vmfs/volumes/esxi-datastore
now its time to run vmkfstools (to convert the VMDK files into something usefull on the
ESXI server)
vmkfstools -i <input> <output> -d <format>
I used:
vmkfstools -i oldfile.vmdk new-conveted-file.vmdk
I takes a while to “clone” the files – once this in done I am almost finished.
In vSphare client
create a new virtual mashine (select CUSTOM VM – not typical)
follow the wizard until
“select a disk” -> Use an existing disk -> browse and point to the newly cloned
vmdk file.
Start the new virtual machine – and I where done !
I had a Win2008 R2 server running as fileserver , with about 4TB of files shared via SMB to Mac’s.
One Macuser got a “1407” error while accessing a folder called “204449_Kupon_DG”.
He saw a empty folder.
It turned out he did not have permissions to access the folder – and I as a administrator where unable to give him this. From the Server-Console I tried to rename the folder but got Error:
Could not find this item.This is no longer located in….
The solution for me where to run CMD (as administrator) CD to the directory
then do a
dir /a /x
(This will show you all files incl. hidden – as old DOS format 8.3 char.)
Next step is to delete the folder – but as “204449~1” (not 204449_Kupon_DG)
rd /s “8.3 file-name”
rd /s “204449~1”
Bum ! – gone where the problematic directory.
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