Scripting Office 365 licensing with disabled services

In the past I've had a few clients request scripts to automatically set/assign licenses to users in Office 365 – Generally pretty simple stuff. Recently I had a client ask to disable a particular service within a license – again, not all that difficult – unless you want to actually check if a license/service is…

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Exchange 2013/216 receive connector selection process

On a recent gig, the local tech wanted some more detail on the receive connector selection process... I explained the whole "most defined" IP set wins (i.e. 192.168.0.23 will be selected over 192.168.0.0/24), but was unable to find any TechNet articles to back that up. Fortunately, this guys nails it, with a good explanation and…

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Microsoft culture change to non-sales focused ?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/satya-nadella-just-fixed-microsofts-biggest-problem-chris-dodds?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like I'll believe it when I see it. For an organisation that is so incredibly entrenched in the culture of selling first and not bothering if the product actually meets customer needs or not - and even worse, very skilled in repositioning the problem as the solution, its a massive claim and would be a…

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Using Azure RM Site to Site VPN with a Dynamic IP

By guest writer: Leon Zippel In the interests of saving a bit of money, I decided to switch my ADSL service from an expensive business connection to a cheap residential connection. In Australia this also means switching from a static IP address to a dynamic IP address. With most web-based services now able to be…

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Using Azure RM Site to Site VPN with a Dynamic IP

In the interests of saving a bit of money, I decided to switch my ADSL service from an expensive business connection to a cheap residential connection. In Australia this also means switching from a static IP address to a dynamic IP address. With most web-based services now able to be proxied via Microsoft's Web Application…

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Doom (2016)

Good game.... great game in fact Good bits Very fast paced - even no weapon reloading - different, but good Glory kills are surprisingly well implemented and a lot of fun Looks and sounds brilliant the way the story is told, by using holograms in game, instead of cut scenes, is really good bits I'm…

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