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Does anyone know or has anyone heard if Microsoft will be updating their SMTP server in the not-so-distant future to allow us to setup relay using the information from Microsoft Graph in 365 since MS is doing away with allowing SMTP connections to 365 using the basic AUTH? They initially attempted to end it this past March but extended it a year after I force our dev team up update the website to send emails through Microsoft Graph.

Since we have a lot of devices that use SMTP in the office I wonder if MS plans to update the SMTP server found in Windows Server ... in the next release to allow us to use Microsoft Graph to relay emails since Xerox, HP, Lexmark, Kyocera, and other devices have yet to adopt the Microsoft Graph method in their operating systems.

The other option is for me to have AI build me a system that I can use inside to do exactly this, would probably take me an hour to get it working perfectly but I don't want to re-invent the wheel. :)

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We bought one of these systems a year couple of years ago for our marketing guy, and lately he's noticed his system slowing down.

He's got 128GB of RAM, 2TB NVMe, an RTX 6000. He's fully patched from Dell, Microsoft, NVidia. He uses 3DMax etc.

I wonder if there any other renders who have a similar system that have noticed things slow down? I wonder if there is a bug in the last 3 Windows updates that could be causing his frustration?

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We have two shared mailboxes that are being problematic. One is for quotes the other is used for orders. 4 people (not including myself) have permissions to these mailboxes.

I have been able to replicate the issue from my own system here at the office. When I open anyone of the two mailboxes and click on an email; the email can have a small PDF attached to me or not, there is a (up-to 5 second) delay before the email is displayed. If I click on the other mailbox in Outlook, there is a delay again before I see the list.

When I click on other shared mailboxes I have access to, there a tiny delay, and selecting emails with or without attachments is much quicker, it's only the orders and quotes mailboxes that seem to be having this issue. These mailboxes were created long before I started working for this company, so who knows if there is something on with them or not. They also only use about 5-10GB of storage on 365 as the people managing them like to pull out emails related to them and store them in their personal mailbox; their personal mailboxes which they can access instantly are fairly large, one is 42GB (OST) even though their archive is set to 1 year.

Their machines have 16GB of RAM, run Windows 11 25H2, use NM790 Lexar NVMe Gen4 drives. Windows is using 13GB of the 16GB in the systems. My system is an i5 10th Gen, 32GB, 1GB NVMe system.

It's only the people accessing the quote and order mailboxes that are having an issue.

What do you think? I was thinking maybe the mailboxes need to be backed up and blown up, then re-created and have their email restored into them?

Let me know your thoughts,

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We currently have email notification setup in Defender pointing to an old email address that we want to decommission. When I look at the Policy & Rules I see the notifications are going out to TenantAdmins, which when I check Entra's groups and users I don't have a TenatAdmins groups or user there. I looked through Defender and don't see anything, does anyone have any idea where this group or user lives?

And is there a more direct way to update it if it's not a group without having to go through all the individual policy & rules?

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All our Windows 2019 servers are using Windows Defender. When I go to the endpoints in Security it says, "we are currently using Intune to manage our security policies".

So, when it comes to the servers which are using Windows Defender how do I set the policies up? Do I just "use defender for business configuration instead" and not "go to Intune"?

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if I setup default policy for the organization and a user needs special permissions, can I create a new policy with those changes and assign it to the user(s) in it or do I have to create a new policy with the entire rules set from the main policy plus the changes?

Where does BGinfo get it's IP address info from?

I am running a Windows 2019 servers (PDC) in Hyper-V, it has only 1 physical NIC in, and the NIC and it's IP address info checks out, even ipconfig /all show the correct info, but BGinfo shows (DHCP) which nearly gave me a heart attack this morning! LOL

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Are there any vendors that make a front and back dashcam that connect wirelessly to one another? I drive a leased vehicle and don't want to be taking it apart to install a wire from the front to the back or damage anything in the process.

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This is a Windows / Python question.

My boss had Claude write an AI website for us which I setup to run, it uses Python 3 (the latest version) and AWS. The problem with the code is it's not in utf8 so when it initially ran it was throwing errors which I looked up and determined that the encoding="utf-8" needed to be added. I looked through the code but couldn't find the references that were mentioned on the various support sites.

I did eventually find that is I add -X utf8 to the Python command it should work, and it does for the most part but the output shows have of it is right while the other half isn't. So, I need some advice how to make it all display in utf8?

Too bad I cannot post an image here so you all could see it exactly what I mean. :(

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I have setup everything in trial mode as a proof of concept that my boss wanted. Going forwards I am not sure about how the licensing will work. We are using the Claude client to connect to AWS Bedrock.

So, do we need to get a license from AWS plus Claude?

My boss wants our team to setup 5 systems (1 IT, 4 employees) and set the permissions so that no one can upload CAD files to AI; we are a manufacturing company.

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I have a callpilot 150, the question is, is the 15 character name limit related to the phones display or CallPilot itself?

Today, people have more than 15 character total for their first and last names.

If it helps, we have voice mail version 31.10.14.22

We have an old Nortel system that still operates on phone lines, it's not VoIP, is much, much older than that! 😄

I am having trouble accessing the Voicemail network webpage, I cannot remember if it uses a port number to access it, like http://IPAddress:port of if it's stock port 80?

Also, PING is disabled on our network, I need to know if I need to allow the Voicemail system to ping the gateway as I can see the device on an IP scan and its broadcasting FTP but I don't get any other response from it. I recall that some older devices like to ping the gateway of networks that's why I am asking.

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I have been asked to grant permissions to Gumloop and AI tool as people in our environment want to build agentic AI with it.

So, I see the application in Entra ID -> Enterprise Applications -> All applications, but don't see how I grant it permissions. And I have looked through Google and their AI which suggests how to do it, but the steps are obsolete because the version of Entra ID they reference doesn't exist. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Secondly, I have concerns about doing this. Do AI applications data farm companies data? I am told they need Gumloop to work with Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook which to me is a red flag.

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Has anyone who has the RPS, that's the device that allows you to connect Unifi devices to it using an cable that looks to have ATX style connectors on either end, on making custom cables that are shorter?

I see why Ubiquiti doesn't want to make one shorter than 1.5M long, they offered a shorter one with the RPS or the UDM-Pro, but since they seem to not recognize 24U racks as it makes it impossible to manage the 1.5M cables. Though I am sure they would see more RPS's being sold and would likely have a tough time keeping the 1M long cables in stock if they offer it as I have seen a lot of people here and on the community who have smaller than 24U racks (the Ubiquiti ones) that would most likely like to have some redundancy, like me who uses a Dell 24U.

I have the 1.5M cables which are quite heavy and hard to get locked in. I always find when I get one or two locked in at least one of the other ones fall out. And the cables rest on my Dell R830 which if I had to ever pull out to do some maintenance on would cause the weight to shift straining the cables causing them to disengage (fall out).

I recall seeing a post somewhere of someone saying they cable ends were ATX style, but nothing more was said, and I have lost the post plus haven't found any new mentions of it online. I guess no too many people are interested in redundancy.

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Previously we were managed by an MSP. When they gave us control of our tenant, we manage it now. They left everything setup the way they did include the partner relationships for the MOSA licensing. We started transferring everything to MCA licensing.

So, my question is what the difference between MOSA and MCA licensing, mainly is there any benefits over the other, and for security reasons is it safe to remove the GDAP and other partner relationships?

If we wanted to start using MOSA, if its better, do we need to find our own partner and what is involved in doing that?

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