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Problem Description If you are in a hybrid environment where users are synced from on-prem AD to Azure AD using AD Connect, you may find that your user photos were never populated in SharePoint Online. In this case, the user photo may be displayed in Outlook (OWA), and Teams but not SharePoint. Here is an […]
Summary SharePoint Server Subscription Edition now supports client certificate authentication when interacting with SMTP servers to send e-mail. While this may be an uncommon scenario, this feature is vital for highly secure environments where password-based only security is not allowed. To use this feature, you must install a SharePoint Certificate, using the new SSL Certificate […]
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Summary This blog details how to install and configure BGINFO to start on multiple servers. What is BGINFO? BGINFO stands for “Background Information”. This program will allow users to display computer details on the desktop wallpaper. This is very handy when working with multiple virtual servers that all have the same default background. Example: Get […]
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Problem Summary Your company decided to use Exchange Online for e-mail, but leave the SharePoint Servers on-prem. After doing this you may have noticed that Exchange Online will not be able to deliver e-mail to the Drop folder, were SharePoint processes email for delivery. At this point the incoming e-mail feature in SharePoint is totally […]
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Summary After configuring SharePoint with Incoming email and the SharePoint Directory Management Service” to create Distribution Lists in Active Directory, you are unable to create new groups with the following error. Sorry, something went wrong The following error has occurred while attempting to contact the Directory Management Service: The request failed with HTTP status 401: […]
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Problem I recently worked on an issue where lists in SharePoint were enabled for incoming e-mail and created in Active Directory / Exchange using the “Directory Management Service. These new lists should be created as e-mail enabled contacts with an external e-mail target address in Exchange. However, after setting an e-mail address on a SharePoint […]
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Summary I recently worked on a case that involved slow incoming mail destined to SharePoint libraries. We found the problem was caused by a buildup of mail in the “drop” folders across multiple servers. Looking closer at the issue, we found that most of the messages were intended for aliases that no longer existed. Example: […]
Summary Now that SharePoint 2019 supports SMTP authentication you have the option to relay e-mail from SharePoint to any SMTP server that supports SMTP authentication. However, if you are using a port that falls back to anonymous, how do you if it’s authenticating and not just falling back to anonymous? Let’s look at the traffic […]
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Summary Now that SharePoint Server 2019 has been released, the official deprecated / removed list has been published. After reading this you may have noticed that “Incoming email automatic mode” has been removed from the product. Incoming email automatic mode As announced by the Windows Server team, Microsoft is deprecating the IIS 6 Management compatibility […]
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Summary On July 24, 2018 Microsoft has announced the availability of both SharePoint Server 2019 Preview and Project Server 2019 Preview. One of the features I’m excited about is SMTP Authentication directly from SharePoint. This means, there is no need to setup a standalone SMTP relay just for SharePoint to send outgoing e-mail when authentication is required. […]