Office 365

Outlook M365 – Need Password dialogue disappears quickly

You are using Microsoft 365 and you turn on your PC and open Outlook but discover that Outlook requires a password. The message “Need Password” is staring at you from the info bar at the bottom of the Outlook window. You click to try and input your password, but it quickly pops up then the password dialogue box disappears. There are few suggestions with a few different Methods and workarounds. In short, what worked for me was as follows:

• Close all M365 Application (Outlook, Word, Excel etc.)
• Add a DWORD called DisableADALatopWAMOverride with a value of 1 under the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity\
• Open Word – Sign-in

Start Outlook and the problem should be fixed.

New installed Outlook 2016 cannot log on to Office365 Mailbox

After installing an fresh copy of Outlook 2016 and trying to connect to an Office 365 mailbox the following error messages pop up:

Outlook cannot log on. Verify you are connected to the network and are using the proper server and
mailbox name. The Microsoft Exchange information service in your profile is missing required
information. Modify your profile to ensure that you are using the correct Microsoft Exchange
information service.

This seems to be an issue with Windows 10 and autodiscover in Office versions 2010 and later. To fix this use the following workaround.

Set the ExcludeHttpsRootDomain registry key on all affected clients to a value of 1.

1. Open the registry editor
   • Click the start menu and type regedit
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficex.0OutlookAutoDiscover
   • Note – x.0 corresponds to your installed version of Office: Office 2013=15.0, Office 2016=16.0
3. Change the DWORD: ExcludeHttpsRootDomain to Value: 1
   • If the DWORD doesn’t exist, create it.
4. Close the registry editor and launch Outlook. Reconfigure the profile.

Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2212902

List all Mobile Devices connected to Office365 (Exhange 2010/2013) – PowerShell

All credit to Port25Guy.com for creating this handy script to get a summary of all mobile device connected to you Exchange organisation. The script will generate a CSV file as well as send an Email in HTML format. This allows for setting up a schedule run for periodic housekeeping on all of you mobile device.

[codesyntax lang=”powershell”]

### BEGINNING OF SCRIPT

### Updated cmdlet's http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=254711 MobileDevice rather than ActiveSyncDevice
### http://blog.zmarzly.me

#####
#
# Get-MobileDeviceReport
# Author: Paul Ponzeka
# Website: port25guy.com
# email ponzekap2 at gmail dot com
#
######
param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string] $SMTPServer = "",
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string] $SMTPFrom = "",
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string] $SMTPTo = "",
    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
    [string] $exportpath = ""
    )

#######
#
# HTML Formatting Section
# Thanks to Paul Cunningham at http://exchangeserverpro.com/
#
#######
#
# 
#
######
$style = "<style>BODY{font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;}"
$style = $style + "TABLE{border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse;}"
$style = $style + "TH{border: 1px solid black; background: #dddddd; padding: 5px; }"
$style = $style + "TD{border: 1px solid black; padding: 5px; }"
$style = $style + "</style>"


$messageSubject = "Mobile Device Report"

$message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $smtpfrom, $smtpto
$message.Subject = $messageSubject
$message.IsBodyHTML = $true

####  Get Mailbox

$EASDevices = ""
$AllEASDevices = @()

$EASDevices = ""| select 'User','PrimarySMTPAddress','DeviceType','DeviceModel','DeviceOS', 'LastSyncAttemptTime','LastSuccessSync'
$EasMailboxes = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited
foreach ($EASUser in $EasMailboxes) {
$EASDevices.user = $EASUser.displayname
$EASDevices.PrimarySMTPAddress = $EASUser.PrimarySMTPAddress.tostring()
    foreach ($EASUserDevices in Get-MobileDevice -Mailbox $EasUser.alias) {
	$EASDeviceStatistics = $EASUserDevices | Get-MobileDeviceStatistics
    $EASDevices.devicetype = $EASUserDevices.devicetype
    $EASDevices.devicemodel = $EASUserDevices.devicemodel
    $EASDevices.deviceos = $EASUserDevices.deviceos
	$EASDevices.lastsyncattempttime = $EASDeviceStatistics.lastsyncattempttime
	$EASDevices.lastsuccesssync = $EASDeviceStatistics.lastsuccesssync
    $AllEASDevices += $EASDevices | select user,primarysmtpaddress,devicetype,devicemodel,deviceos,lastsyncattempttime,lastsuccesssync
    }
    }
$AllEASDevices = $AllEASDevices | sort user
$AllEASDevices
$AllEASDevices | Export-Csv $exportpath\ActiveSyncReport.csv

######
#
# Send Email Report
#
########

$message.Body = $AllEasDevices | ConvertTo-Html -Head $style

$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($message)

##END OF SCRIPT

[/codesyntax]

Installation error – Windows Azure Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell

This is a rather missleading error messages – “In order to install Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, you must have Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant version 7.0 (64 bit) or greater installed on this computer.” This seems to caused by a wrong version check when trying to install the official Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell. Note, Effective October 20, 2014, the 32-bit version of Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell (32-bit version) is discontinued. Support for the 32-bit version will no longer occur, and future updates to the Azure Active Directory Module will be released only for the 64-bit version. Microsoft strongly recommend you install the 64-bit version to ensure future support and compatibility. Before trying the fix below make sure you have the .NET framework 3.5 installed/enabled as this is a pre-requisite. If this doesn’t fix it try the following:

1. Open regedit.exe
2. Find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSOIdentityCRL
3. Change the value of MSOIDCRLVersion from 7.250.4303.0 to 7.250.4551.0
4. You should now be able to install the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell.
5. After the installation is complete, change MSOIDCRLVersion back to 7.250.4303.0