I needed to install Visio on my laptop. Laptop, running Win10 Pro 1709, already had Office 365’s office version installed.
Visio was part of our VLSC/Business Center downloads. I noticed I had MAK keys and C2R-P MAK keys for the ODT.
I tried to just install from the downloaded ISO but it said something about 32/64bit product conflicts. I fixed that (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_install-mso_win10/office-16-click-to-run-extensibility-component-64/e79ee5bd-f119-4808-9bb2-289dd815b76a) but then had it error out with something like “this product doesn’t work well with the click to run installed programs”.

Download the Visio ISO (or replace visio with another product)
Download the Office Deployment Tool. “Install” this by double clicking (it just extracts to a you-get-to-choose working folder).
Comes with 2 files; setup.exe and configuration.xml

Edit the xml file
<Configuration> <Add OfficeClientEdition=”64″ > <Product ID=”VisioProXVolume” PIDKEY=”69WXN-MBYV6-22PQG-3WGHK-RM6XC”> <Language ID=”en-us” /> </Product> </Add> </Configuration>
Save

Open a command prompt (or shift + right-click open powershell in this window) and navigate to wher your xml and exe files are.

Download the required setup files
setup.exe /download configuration.xml

Install the setup files
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

Visio is now installed!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/use-the-office-deployment-tool-to-install-volume-licensed-editions-of-visio-2016
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-the-office-2016-deployment-tool

On prem shared mailbox. May be one of my last posts about exchange being not in O365-land.

Open the Exchange Management Shell EMS

Create the mailbox
New-Mailbox -Name MAILBOXNAME -Alias ALIASNAME -OrganizationalUnit "OU path" -Database "DATABASE" -UserPrincipalName EMAILADDRESS -Shared

Give permissions to the mailbox
Add-MailboxPermission MAILBOXNAME -User "DOMAIN\USERNAME" -AccessRights FullAccess
Or
Add-ADPermission MAILBOXNAME -User "DOMAIN\USERNAME" -ExtendedRights Send-As

Convert a User mailbox to a shared mailbox
Set-Mailbox "" -Type shared
Add-MailboxPermission MAILBOXNAME -User "DOMAIN\USERNAME" -AccessRights FullAccess
Add-ADPermission MAILBOXNAME -User "DOMAIN\USERNAME" -ExtendedRights Send-As

I recently acquired some Intel Computesticks (m3 1.6ghz, 4GB, 64gb storage, abgn) and was going to use them as digital signage systems – total side note but they work remarkably well for digital signage, especially with Xibo).

I needed them to automatically log into windows with no user interactions when rebooting.

Run Netplwiz
Windows + R
Netplwiz

Uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer
Enter the password for an automatic user login. I used a local account.

You can also use the registry to do it:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
DefaultUserName enter a value of domain\youraccount, or MicrosoftAccount\yourMSemail@domain.tld, or username
New String Value for DefaultPassword (if it doesn’t exist)
Enter your password (yes, clear text)
Change the value for AutoAdminLogon to 1

**EDIT**
apparently there’s an Autologon by sysinternals too. For win10.

I have an Exchange 2010 server on prem – needed to grant send on behalf to a user for a distribution list. In this case the distribution list is called “Events”. However, every time I would change the permissions I noticed that the previous entries were removed.

List Group Current Permissions
Get-DistributionGroup "Events" | fl name,grant*

Replace Granted Users List
Set-DistributionGroup "Events" -GrantSendOnBehalfTo "Some User", "Another User", "Third User"

Add Additional Users
Set-DistributionGroup "Events" -GrantSendOnBehalfTo @{add="New Hire", "Manager Name"}

Remote Users
Set-DistributionGroup "Events" -GrantSendOnBehalfTo @{remove="Recently Fired", "Another User"}

One of the EA’s reported that an email was not going through to the CEO from a vendor/partner and the NDR was:

Generating server: myemailserver.tld
CEO@mycompany.tld
#< #5.1.0 smtp;554 5.1.0 Sender denied> #SMTP#
Original message headers:
Received: from spam.myemailserver.tld (8.8.33.145) by mail.myemailserver.tld
(192.168.100.3) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.361.1; Mon, 18 Sep 2017
22:25:26 -0500
X-Note: Xit Build: 3/21/2017 2:04:32 PM UTC (2.6.15.0) XIT_SCAN_PASSED
Received: from [10.60.1.167] (HELO inbound.spamprovider.com) by
spam.myemailserver.tld (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.7) with ESMTP id 51998793;
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:25:26 -0400
X-Note: This Email was scanned by SomeProduct SPAMThing
X-Note-AR-ScanTimeLocal: 09/18/2017 11:25:26 PM
X-Note: SomeProduct Build: 8/31/2017 11:17:18 AM UTC (2.6.21.34)
X-Note: Filtered by 10.60.1.167
X-Policy: mycompany.tld
X-Primary: OtherUser@Mycompany.tld
X-Virus-Scan: V-
X-Note: SPF: IP: 167.31.17.139 DOM: VENDOREMAIL.TLD ADDR: partner@VENDOREMAIL.TLD
X-Note: SPF: Pass

So we notice that it went through from an SPF range – and I cut out the back and forth accepting of the message that normally comes with the NDR/DR – and left the “554 5.1.0 Sender Denied” portion (bolded above).

Since we run Exchange I could check using powershell for exchange. Go figure.

Trusted Senders List
$TSD = (Get-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration -Identity MYCEO_User).TrustedSendersAndDomains
$TSD > c:\temp\Trusted_Senders.txt

Blocked Senders List
$TSD = (Get-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration -Identity alan.handley).TrustedSendersAndDomains
$TSD > c:\temp\Blocked_senders.txt

I should note that I first tried:
Get-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration -ResultSize unlimited MYCEO_User > c:\temp\results.txt
But with that it was still truncating the results. Meh.

Remove an Entry
Set-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration -Identity MYUSER -BlockedSendersAndDomains @{Remove="vendor@partner.tld"}

Add an Entry
Set-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration -Identity ANOTHERUSER -TrustedSendersAndDomains @{Add="Vendor@partner.tld"}

I recently went through and disabled a ton of users that hadn’t logged into AD for the last X number of days. And now I needed a report to show the number of mailboxes that were currently associated with disabled accounts.

Exchange Powershell to the rescue
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | ft -a Identity, UserAccountControl, ExchangeUserAccountControl, isLinked, isResource > c:\temp\disabled_mailboxen.txt