What if you need to send an e-mail containing sensitive information? Do you send anything and everything through e-mail without concern for prying eyes? Recent news stories about e-mail account hacks and interceptions by third-parties make me even more hesitant and unwilling to send anything of importance through standard plain-text e-mail. If you’ve ever been Read More
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How to Configure S/MIME in Exchange Online
In this article Step 1: Set up and publish S/MIME certificates Step 3: Sync user certificates for S/MIME into Microsoft 365 Step 4: Configure policies to install the S/MIME extensions in web browsers Step 5: Configure email clients to use S/MIME S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a widely accepted protocol for sending digitally signed Read More
Set up Email Notifications for Microsoft Security
To view or edit email notification settings for your company, follow these steps: Go to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (https://security.microsoft.com) and sign in. In the navigation pane, select Settings, and then select Endpoints. Then, under General, select Email notifications. Review the information on the Alerts and Vulnerabilities tabs. If you don’t see any items listed on the Alerts tab, you can create a rule Read More
How to Set an Individual User’s Password to Never Expire in Azure AD
This article explains how to set a password for an individual user to not expire. You have to complete these steps using PowerShell. Prerequisites PowerShell 7 and later is the recommended PowerShell version for use with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK on all platforms. There are no additional prerequisites to use the SDK with PowerShell Read More
How to Fix “Installation exceeded the time limit set by your organisation. Please try again or contact your IT support person for help”
Symptoms I can understand you are having issues related to Autopilot timeout. Please try to increase timeout -> try to edit the Enrollment Status page and try to increase the “Show an error when installation takes longer than the specified number of minutes” setting. And then check if it is successful to enroll. Create new Read More
How to Reset Your Microsoft Surface Without Log into Windows
You can get to the reset option by restarting your Surface from the sign-in screen. Here’s how: On your keyboard, press the Windows logo key + L. If you need to, dismiss the lock screen. Hold the Shift key down while you select Power > Restart in the lower-right corner of the screen. After your Surface restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Reset Read More