In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to convert existing O365 users with 2FA disabled to O365 users with 2FA enabled. The scenario I'm working under in this example are users who have existing O365 logons in a Win 2016 RDP environment who we're migrating to 2FA, but this process will work even…
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Win 2016 RDP Outlook Cannot Perform the Search
Just a quick post to hopefully help other system admins out there who have applied the Microsoft Late November patches to their RDP servers that affects the Outlook search function. The offending patch is KB4467684: November 27, 2018—KB4467684 (OS Build 14393.2639), but don't simply uninstall it because there are reports that your server will refuse…
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Win 2016 RDP Adobe Acrobat Keeps Crashing on Launch
This is a quick "How To" fix for when you're trying to open Adobe Acrobat Reader from the desktop shortcut in Windows 2016 or 2012R2 environment and discover that it is slow to open and then crashes. I had to muck around with this for a good hour or so to rectify the issue, so…
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Windows Server 2016 Force Updates From Command Line
This is just a quick post to outline that Windows 2016 and Windows 10 uses UsoClient.exe which is a totally new approach from the Wuauclt.exe days of Window 2008/Windows 7 for Windows updates from the command line. The following outlines the various switches that can download, install and check for updates. Open a command prompt…
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