I recently had a user (myself) that was not getting voicemail to email. This was supposed to work, but was not. So the first thing I did was confirm the LDAP connection, in my case I needed to move the Unity account in AD, and update the password in CUC; Then you have to Validate […]
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Managing Data Gateway in Office 365
I am a little surprised that I am writing this, as I had this document in my archives, but apparently not. So here goes In Office 365, you can set up a data stream from on site to the cloud in Azure, this is called a data gateway. There is some documentation, but it actually […]
Varonis Service Account Password reset
Any who use Varonis know it is a sweet program, but an expensive one. Additionally, they hold their documentation tight. Anyway, this is a simple thing, and should not take much effort. I found the service account listed in a couple places, see them here in the pic (Don’t forget the windows services if you […]
Convert LDAP Time
This is the reference and an online converter. EpochConverter.com The 18-digit Active Directory timestamps, also named ‘Windows NT time format’,’Win32 FILETIME or SYSTEMTIME’ or NTFS file time. These are used in Microsoft Active Directory for pwdLastSet, accountExpires, LastLogon, LastLogonTimestamp and LastPwdSet. The timestamp is the number of 100-nanoseconds intervals (1 nanosecond = one billionth of […]
Solarwinds Web Help Desk (WHD) inactive user logon
I had a user report they could not login with an error of “The account has been deactivated“. I tried the regular stuff, but the domain account was fine, and the LDAP connection was also fine. It turns out that the user may have been moved in the OU structure, or something else made WHD […]
Office 365 Brute Force Attack
If the Office.com accounts are being constantly locked out, you can’t really tell by the ADFS logs if it is an email account that is being attacked, or if it is the general Office account. In my case, it was email, and so with MS new rules, we were able to turn off Basic authentication. […]