I have googled tons for this but with no success, maybe I just have the wrong approach?
Problem:
We work with migrating organizations from on premises Exchange to Office 365 and vice versa. As a service we also log in to all user computers and do the initial "add existing mailbox"-steps. Since we are using Autodiscovery-pointers this takes a lot of time. With a bad bandwidth it can take up to 15 min per user.
Our goal:
Create a Powershelscript where we can put the settings that normally being fetched by Autodiscovery and quickly add a new, existing mailbox to the computer so next time they log in they can just start the Outlook application and they are logged in.
I hope I made myself understandable, please ask if anything is unclear.
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
Maybe there is a way to go through the initial Outlook-setup via a PSSession? Then the time that an Autodiscovery takes wouldn't matter since we can do all the setups remote, unatended.
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I know I should probably ask MS about this, but I dont know if I trust their communication tools to get me a satisfying answer.
I have recently taken the task to test an application of mine.
Part of this test is to send an e-mail to it, then log in and see if I get the result I want (this is automated)
For this the process is:
Open Outlook -> Send Mail
Close Outlook
Open App -> Check result
Open Outlook -> Send Mail
Close Outlook
But for some reason, every second time the outlook app is opened, (including manually opening the app to check on configurations etc.) Mails will go to the outbox but will not be sent, unless I manually trigger them to.
Now, there are possible solutions like keeping the app running continously, or telling my testing-suite to press F9 after every sent mail, but I want to tackle the root cause, and fix the underlying problem.
The Outlook Version used is the latest Version of Office 365 Outlook.
Has anyone else had this experience and figured out a fix?
Thank you in advance.
Keep in mind that message submission is an asynchronous process, so if you close Outlook while it is still sending, the message might end up stuck in the Outbox.
You can call Namespace.SendAndReceive to force submission, but it is still asynchronous. You can hook into the SyncObject.SyncEnd event on the first (All Accounts) SyncObject from the Namespace.SyncObjects collection and quite only after that event fires.
Since this problem occured on a machine I do not own, I tried avoiding certain easy troubleshooting steps. After I couldnt find an answer on my own, and I didnt get responses here that would've helped me solve this without a wooden hammer method, I asked for permission to issue a repair to the local office 365 suite.
After the repair it had redownloaded and installed the entirety of office 365.
After connecting my company MS account to outlook, the issue no longer appeared.
I guess this counts as solving this issue.
I'm a novice with AS/400. I have a bit of coding experience and know that there's always an access to the backend if you're clever enough. But developers in my organisation said that it's hard to communicate with the server and make it run things remotely.
So I'm wondering if you anyone's got any ideas how I can schedule a simple task. I login to the "Personal Communication", which is the client app. Then I go to a certain menu, ie I543, enter a parameter "1". And Press "ENTER" to run a report which have a file output.
I know there is that "Macro" function within Personal Communication. But that relies on send keys which does not work on a locked screen, nor do I want to activate it manually, which really defies the point of automation.
I was hoping I can schedule a simple call command somehow to activate some kind of procedure. Just need to know if possible and where to start looking? Thanks.
Last millennium's AS/400 and today's IBM i both have a basic job scheduler built in.
From a command line WRKJOBSCDE.
You need to find out what happens when you select menu I543 option 1. Assuming it's a simple CALL MYRPT or SBMJOB CMD(CALL MYRPT) then adding a scheduled job to run the report is easy.
However, you probably don't have the authority to do so. Nor should your developers necessarily be able to do so. Your system administrator is the right person. In a small shop, that might be the guy doing development. In a large one, it's another person or team.
But your developers should have at least pointed you toward the admin and the job scheduler.
So we have this distributed team who are working on a project and whose hours/progress is being monitored using redmine. All the guys are really talented and hardworking but pretty bad when it comes to updating their daily tasks/progress using redmine. This makes it very difficult for our project managers to understand and steer the progress as well as the upper management to get a quick overview of where we stand with various development initiatives.
Things have become so bad that I have been tasked to setup an email alert such that every night say 12:00 midnight, an email goes out to everyone on an email list with the date and names of users who have not updated their hours for that day. The management hopes that this exercise will instil in them the discipline to update their tickets on a daily basis.
My question is: Is this possible in redmine? Any API, or adhoc way of send out emails based on a custom Query? I have not worked with redmine before and have no idea how to go about this.
If there are anyone with prior experience I would be very grateful to get some directions!
I send some daily reminders to our redmine users, to help ensure that issues don't slip through the cracks in our workflow. I skip the API and just write perl scripts that connect directly to the database, scheduled via cron. The database is well designed and easy to understand: my SQL skills are very basic, and I've always been able to pretty easily hack out a query that gets what I need.
Some thoughts:
The end of "today" might be a relative concept if your team is worldwide. You could run your script hourly and base the reminders on users' time zones.
You might want to handle holidays and vacations, so that your users don't get nagged on their days off.
We use custom roles in redmine to control some of the emails. (We have a "new issue watcher" who gets triage mails in each project.) You could do the same thing to let certain users opt in or out of the time-tracking nag mails.
If you're interested, here's a link to one of my reminder scripts:
http://joecullin.com/redmine_scripts/redmine_reminders
After some googling I found that this reason if caused by too many scheduled conferences by my Application Endpoint. My only problem is, how do I delete/remove currently stored scheduled conferences for my application endpoint, when the only access I have to my server is through PowerShell??
EDIT:
Just found a command that actually could increase number of scheduled meetings per organizer (Set-CsUserServicesConfiguration -MaxScheduledMeetingsPerOrganizer 2000), but it didn't change the issue. I'm still receiving MaxConferencesExceeded error. Any ideas??
Use Get-CsUserServicesConfiguration to make sure the change has actually occurred, and/or setting it globally to make sure it has the correct context for your users.
I've also found with a large pool, it can take a while to kick in.
Have you tried republishing your Lync topology after making the change? A bit dramatic, but can help with Lync gets itself into a knot with changes.
I want to write a workflow application that routes a link to a document. The routing is based upon machines not users because I don't know who will ever be at a given post. For example, I have a form. It is initially filled out in location A. I now want it to go to location B and have them fill out the rest. Finally, it goes to location C where a supervisor will approve it.
None of these locations has a known user. That is I don't know who it will be. I only know that whomever it is is authorized (they are assigned to the workstation and are approved to be there.)
Will Microsoft Windows Workflow do this or do I need to build my own workflow based on SQL Server, IP Addresses, and so forth?
Also, How would the user at a workstation be notified a document had been sent to their machine?
Thanks for any help.
I think if I was approaching this problem workflow would work to do it. It is a state machine you want that has three states:
A Start
B Completing
C Approving
However workflow needs to work in one central place (trust me on this, you only want to have one workflow run time running at once, otherwise the same bit of work can be done multiple times see our questions on MSDN forum). So a central server running the workflow is the answer.
How you present this to the users can be done in multiple ways. Dave suggested using an ASP.NET site to identify the machines that are doing the work, which is probably how I would do it. However you could also write a windows forms client that would do the same thing. This would require using something like SOAP / WCF to facilitate communication between client form applications and the central workflow service. This would have the advantage that you could use a system try icon to alert the user.
You might also want to look at human workflow engines, as they are designed to do things such as this (and more), I'm most familiar with PNMsoft's Sequence
You can design a generic "routing" workflow that will cause data to go to a workstation. The easiest way to do this would be to embed the workflow in an ASP.NET application. Each workstation should visit the application with a workstation ID in the querystring:
http://myapp/default.aspx?wid=01
When the form is filled out at workstation A, the workflow running in the web app can enter it into the "work bin" of the next workstation. Anyone sitting at the computer for which the form is destined will see it appear in their list of forms to review. You can use AJAX to make it slick and auto-updating.