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Office 365: Initiate a full password sync using DirSync

Having a need to rapidly sync passwords to Office 365 using Directly Sync (DirSync) I come across the following method that seems to work with minimal effort.  By default the DirSync only kicks off ever 3-5 min’s. To initiate a full password sync you can do the following: Open PowerShell, and then type: Import-Module DirSync   […]

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Salad-In-A-Jar

Looking for new ways to make my healthy prepared meals interesting and Pinterest worthy I decided to prep my salads in a mason jar. Not only does it keep my salad creations fresh, it looks awesome. This Salad-In-A-Jar consists of: Edamame, Chickpeas, Carrots, Broccoli, Kale, Spinach, Cherry Tomatoes, Red Onion and Bell Pepper – Largest portion of […]

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Office 365: Directory Synchronization Isssues

Yes!  In Office 365 at last and now synchronizations are failing The followin message is shown in the forefront identity manager: stopped-server-down And with the event id of 655 the following message is shown: Failed credential provisioning ping. Error: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ServerDownException: Failed even after 5 retries. Action: ProvisionCredentials, Exception: Unable to communicate with the Windows Azure […]

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Office 365: MO17808 – Service degradation

Well this may be why I’ve had issues all day Current Status: Engineers continue to perform tests on the affected networking capacity in order to develop a plan to remediate impact. User Experience: End users are not directly affected by this issue. Customer Impact: Customer impact appears to be limited at this time. Any users […]

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124-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Right Way To Use Toilet Paper

“My invention… consists in a toll of wrapping paper with perforations on the line of the division between on sheet and the next, so as to be easily torn apart, such roll of wrapping paper forming a new article of manufacture.” [youtube id=”knOyXPklyk4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] For once I can prove to my wife that I […]

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SOTD: Internal ONLY

This is a forged email originating from Administrator@<yourdomain><tld> – body – **********Important – Internal ONLY********** File Validity: 16/03/2015 Company : http://<domain>.com File Format: Adobe Reader Legal Copyright: Adobe Corporation. Original Filename: Internal.pdf ********** Confidentiality Notice **********. This e-mail and any file(s) transmitted with it, is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s) mentioned above […]