Office 365 Outlook on the Web: Enhanced Automatic Replies (Out of Office) Capabilities

Short video discussing the newly released enhancements to the Automatic Replies feature of Outlook on the web

Unable to run Office 365 / Exchange Hybrid Wizard – “Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate”

Problem

From the Exchange Admin Center you run the Hybrid configuration setup

You are prompted to login to Office 365

You enter your credentials

And then receive this message / warning

 

You are unable to complete the Hybrid configuration

 

Solution

You can resolve this issue by installing the certificate as follows:

1: Click on the security report icon (the lock symbol in the browser address bar)

2: Click View Certificates

3: Click “Install Certificate”

4: Select “Local Machine” and click next

5: Click Next

6: Click Finish

7: Click Ok

8: Restart Internet Explorer & the Exchange Admin Center.

9: Click enable on the Hybrid setup

10: Log into Office 365 when prompted

You will be returned to the Hybrid setup page

This time, when you click Enable, the Exchange Hybrid setup wizard will start

 

How to enable MAC address spoofing on a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Virtual Machine using PowerShell

I recently had to enable MAC address spoofing on the network adapters of two virtual machines deployed on Hyper-V 2012.  Here’s how I did it using PowerShell:

First, use the following command to take a look at the current configuration of our network adapter

Get-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName  VirtualMachineName –ComputerName HyperVHostName |fl Name,MacAddressSpoofing

• VMName = Virtual Machine Name
• Computer Name = Hyper-V host name

• Name = Virtual Network Adapter Name

We can see that MacAddressSpoofing is currently Off

Run the following command to turn MacAddressSpoofing On

Set-VMNetworkAdapter  VMName VirtualMachineName –ComputerName HyperVHostName –VMNetworkAdapter  NetworkAdapterName -MacAddressSpoofing On

Re-run the following command to verify MacAddressSpoofing is On

Get-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName  VirtualMachineName –ComputerName HyperVHostName |fl Name,MacAddressSpoofing