I support about 10 tenants with 365 hosted email.  5 of them reported to me in the past week that they are getting inundated with spam.   I haven't changed anything about their hosted environment but I'm wondering if there was a 365 outlook client update that might have changed things?   I called MS and they said nothing has changed.  I've never had so many end uers from so many different tenants all complain about an increase in spam.   Again, I've changed nothing about their hosted configuration ..read more

Hi   Tried to get scan to print working using office 365 and Ricoh printer. Used the 3 options given in the following article. But none of them worked https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow-best-practices/how-to-set-up-a-multifunction-device-or-application-to-send-email-using-microsoft-365-or-office-365   Any insight in this regard is greatly appreciated .   Thank you   ..read more

There appears to be a bug in Outlook that allows users to add internal accounts to the Safe Senders list. Users are adding their colleagues to these lists creates issues with automation in PowerShell. We need to add several senders to all user accounts and it fails for the users who added the local domain(s). My local domain is ACMEcorp.com and Outlook allows users to add  to their safe senders list.  In PowerShell that add would be rejected.  The problem occurs when you want to add a legitimate item to that user.  The add fails due to a validation error on the existing l ..read more

Hello   Trying to change the time zone of a room, I enter:   Get-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -Identity email address removed for privacy reasons WARNING: Events from Email parameters of this cmdlet are deprecated. Use Get-EventsFromEmailConfiguration instead. Identity WorkDays WorkingHoursStartTime WorkingHoursEndTime WorkingHoursTimeZone -------- -------- --------------------- ------------------- -------------------- Room - Patron's Lounge Weekdays 09:00:00 17:00:00 Pacific Standard Time   I'm in London so: Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration -Identity email address removed ..read more

I have an Office 365 account which can be allocated to 5 different devices. I have an employee on an Exchange 1 email/calendar account. Can I allocate one of my five devices for use on her company laptop? Hope this ..read more

Below is a section of the workbook that has earned bonus vacation hours based on anniversary date that I will be sharing with a group of people that need to see current available bonus hours for each persons calendar year based on the date they were hired.   In this example, I need A6 thru E6 to stay highlighted 11/12/2022 thru 11/11/2023 and A7 thru E7 to stay highlighted 11/12/2023 thru 11/11/2024 when those dates roll around, next year it will roll over to 2023 and 2024 and so on. All the formulas I've found are based on today's date not from YEAR / MONTH / DAY to YEAR / MONTH / DAY I ..read more

Hi ,    Autosave keeps turning off and when I try to turn it on, its asks to login to Onedrive and makes another version. this has started after updating the office to version 2211 (Build 15831.20252 Click to Run ..read more

I have a form that is used a lot, but there are lots of issues getting people to fill it out correctly. I want to create a survey in Forms and use the responses to autofill the form so it can be printed and signed. Is this possible in MS Forms ..read more

  It’s easy to invite people to become guest users in a Microsoft 365 tenant, but some of the invitees never accept the invitation. Perhaps they don’t need to redeem the invitation to do work or maybe it’s because they don’t want to. In either case, Azure AD guest accounts with unredeemed invitations can accumulate and become stale. In this post, we discuss how to use PowerShell to find and remove those stale accounts in a safe manner. https://office365itpros.com/2023/02/07/azure-ad-guest-accounts-unredeemed ..read more

Hi eveyone, I'm setting up Room Finder for the company I work for and I was wondering if it is possible to send some of the details about the meeting room when sending an meeting invite to external users? I would like to send details like GeoCoordinates, building name, floor. At the moment all I get when I send the invite to external users is the meeting room name ..read more