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Ensuring Email Security: Automatically Check and Enable DKIM, SPF and DMARC Records in Exchange Online

Hey there! So, this is a PowerShell script that gets the accepted domains in a Microsoft 365 tenant. After that, it checks for SPF, DKIM and DMARC DNS records for each domain and returns a report on the status of... Read More

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: The Dynamic Trio That Can Save You From Email Fraud and Spam

Email is an essential part of our lives, and we use it to communicate with friends, family, and work colleagues. However, email fraud and spam can be a significant problem, and it’s crucial to have ways to prevent it. Luckily,... Read More

Protecting Your Sensitive Data: A Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring DLP on Office 365

Data loss prevention (DLP) is a critical component of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy. DLP tools help organizations to protect sensitive data by identifying, monitoring, and protecting it from unauthorized access and disclosure. Office 365 DLP is a powerful tool that... Read More

Outlook not connecting after password change while using ADFS/SSO

Recently we encountered an issue where a client was using Exchange Online authenticating using ADFS/SSO. Issue: Outlook would not connect to Exchange Online after changing the user’s password in Active Directory. Troubleshooting:  We ran Outlook in Online mode, this remedied... Read More

Updated Release of MS13-061 Security Update for Exchange Server 2013

It would seem Microsoft fixed the blunder that was MS13-061 that changed settings for the search infrastructure, placing the content index for all databases into a failed state. They have assured us that they “tested” this release. They have released... Read More

Exchange 2007 Uninstall hangs on Remove Exchange Files

I was working with a client today on decommissioning an Exchange 2007 box after a successful upgrade to Exchange 2010. During the final phase of the project, I was uninstalling Exchange 2007 from the server and saw the processwas taking... Read More

Increasing Exchange 2010 DAG Failover Threshold

Recently I encountered an issue with a client where VEAM backups were causing the DAG to fail over. This has led me to question whether or not VEAM is truly supported by Microsoft. I’ll need to scour for some Microsoft... Read More

Mass MX lookup for Inbound Mail Routes within Proofpoint

Update-03/10/23 The Harvest and Resolve tool referenced no longer exist. I have made a similar tool leveraging a simple PowerShell script. Script Scripts/BulkMXLookup.ps1 at main · gorillatechrepo/Scripts (github.com) While this article probably won’t apply to 99 percent of the people... Read More