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Hey Folks As I am looking across hard drives that I have acquired over time where I have stored data but also backups of data I am trying to find a way where I can perform data depuplication across these drives so that I can look at the end delta and then look at backing this up to some cloud storage and remove the reliance upon TB of disk space which to be honest I very rarely access. Do any of you have any recommendations on software that can do this for personal use (one time) as it is not something I have looked for before; I know plenty of enterprise software that can do this and I imagine none of our suppliers on here are willing to borrow me a license for a weekend :-) Any Ideas? Many Thanks, James.

it's fine you just p155 all over my nice shiny equipment that arrives tomorrow morning! ;-) @ZeroHour can I ban this random LOL I assume this was the one though that you were referring to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-NVMe-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B01639694M/ref=sr_1_5?s=computers&rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1488670813&sr=1-5&keywords=m.2+ssd

I think I picked the wrong one from the list as this is the one I have: MZVLW512HMJP (PM961) - Client SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global If I follow you then I don't see the problem

Yeah just got to see how it goes no reason why can't go and upgrade in a few months ;-) in terms of VR I have not thought about that to be honest don't really have the room. Are any of you on Discord? James.

Yeah I was aware that I was paying the full price for this stuff but that doesn't really bother me I have little patience when comes to buying stuff online :-) IN respect to the 4k yeah my buddy also purchase a machine recently and we found it pretty awesome actually on those monitors even on ultra. He just purchase a Acer Predator X34 UltraWide. James.

Hey Folks! So, I had a moment over the past few days and went and purchase a brand new rig (quite quickly so open for criticism) :-) and I also appreciate the TI is out soon before anyone says that; but here is the rig I have https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/3WrPcc and so was looking for some feedback but furthermore interested to see which EduGeek Folks want to maybe reach out and i'll look at what's occurring and get some games and connect with the community here. Speak Soon, James.

You need to make sure your internal DNS also has the following as per your external DNS and then if you give it a test it should work. CNAME - sip sipdir.online.lync.com 1 Hour CNAME - lyncdiscover webdir.online.lync.com 1 Hour SRV _sip _tls 443 1 100 1 Hour @ sipdir.online.lync.com SRV _sipfederationtls _tcp 5061 1 100 1 Hour @ sipfed.online.lync.com If you run in to issues; head over to https://diagnostics.outlook.com and download the tool to run diagnostics for you and perform the relevant tests for Skype and return results and advise you on next steps. Let me know if that works James.

Hey, To answer the question regarding the move program for UK Customers; Existing customers hosted in the EMEA datacenter region will not be provided an option to move their customer data to the new UK datacenter region. If your a Customers that have strong data residency requirements you should contact your dedicated account manager at Microsoft or Support and put forward a request with appropriate references that states you have to comply with strong data residency requirements and that you request an exception from this decision. I also want to add that, customers whom have their core customer data stored in the existing EU data centre region are not impacted by the launch of the UK data centre region. We introduce no unique capabilities, features or compliance certifications with the new data centre region. Customers in both regions will benefit from the same quality of service, performance and security controls as before.At this time the only services that can have data stored in the UK Datacenter Exchange Online and SharePoint Online you can find more information here: http://o365datacentermap.azurewebsites.net/ Starting September 7, Office 365 will provide storage of core customer data at rest in the UK for new tenants; customers must have a billing address in the UK to be eligible. I hope that helps, Regards, James.

@gshaw - If possible can you send me your WPAD File so that I can check what is occurring here as we maybe trying to get somewhere that hasn't been taken in to consideration in the WPAD File. Thanks, James.

We spent a lot of time ensuring that DirSync upgrades went as smooth as possible; we had a few hiccups at the start but at the moment we primarily see issues when people went and changed the DirSync Configuation to which most of the time was an unsupported change and so we struggle to know about all the things that people poked around with :-) The same goes for Auto Upgrade that is available that is something that we have such a high bar for because we ofcourse need to ensure that goes smooth. One of the biggest issues at the moment we see people running in to is Proxy/Network related issues which is something we are looking to see how we can further help in those scenarios so that such problems are not encountered. Feedback is always appreciated; so feel free to drop a PM my way if you have anything you want to discuss we do review and discuss customer feedback that is provided. James.

Yes; I am not sure if something changed since 2014 but it would of done. The command you have shown is the correct one as you are adding a value to an array

If you use Azure AD Connect we create a Dedicated Sync Account so that you don't have to worry about the password expiration issues. James.

Unfortunately I can't state when we will open up the preview of Microsoft Classtoom outside of the US. I can confirm that we will add support for other geographies for Classroom and SDS over the course of FY17 according to demand and compliance limitations. Keep an eye out for updates, We will have more news on roll out plans and geographies for international availability by Q1 FY17.

Thanks @dapaulio I have recieved the link and shall have a look through the logs. Thanks @steven_layton_sl - I didn't get a PM from you though :-)

I think you need to keep an eye out for Microsoft Classroom ;-) https://classroom.microsoft.com/ James.

Hey Folks, I don't suppose you could send me the AAD Connect Log files where the Installation Failed and then you were unable to Uninstall the Application. Log Location: (C:\users\%username%\AppData\Local\AADConnect) I assume you were using the latest version 1.1.189.0 Many Thanks, James.

:-) all you need to do is the following much easier $x = Import-CSV -Path C:\Temp\Users.csv $x | % {Set-MsolUserPassword -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -NewPassword "Password1" -ForceChangePassword $false} *The column that has the UserPrincipalNames for each of the users in my case above had a header value of UserPrincipalName

Hey Steven, If the teacher uses the share functionality he can generate a view link which the teacher can then instruct the students to go to (maybe even make a ShortURL for it). When the students access the Excel Workbook they should see the '3 circles' on the top right hand corner for 'more options' and have an option to 'Download' which they can then modify accordingly. I hope that helps, James.

Hi, I just wanted to point out a few things; If the user objects in Azure AD are Cloud Users and then at a later date you choose to setup Azure AD Connect your On-Prem Users with soft-match to the respective cloud user object providing that the On-Premise User Objects Primary SMTP address matches the Primary SMTP address of already present user object in the cloud. If you used the default configuration of Azure AD Connect if any of your On-Prem Users have a UPN Suffix that is of a non-routable or non-verified domain namespace in the Azure AD Instance then by default it will use the *.onmicrosoft.com Initial Domain Name for the UPN Suffix. IF you have signed up in the past 6 months~ then your Azure AD will have a feature flag added that will allow updates to the UPN to be performed even if the user has an assigned license and the UPN providing the UPN is not being changed from a Federated Domain to a Managed Domain. This in turn means; if you change your UPN on-premise to be that of a Verified Domain NameSpace during the next sync cycle the updates will be reflected in Azure AD. If you do not have this feature enabled, you can now enable this via AAD Connect PowerShell Module: More Information:- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnectsyncservice-features/#synchronize-userprincipalname-updates By enabling this feature it means you shouldn't need to go and run scripts to correct the UPNs; The script that populates the UPN value on-prem with that of the Primary SMTP address is helpful and ideally you would want to run that prior to doing your Initial Sync to prevent any issues such as dupliace accounts being created as then things get messy. :-) James.

send me a PM with your e-mail address and I will have a look at this with you. I need your TenantID etc. so I don't want you to post that here publicly. Thanks

It was great to see you there! thanks for everyone whom contributed to the day... out of curiosity did they take you to see the Xbox Mine Craft Room? James.

Is this sorted now Gareth? James.

If you change the name servers; and don't remove the configuration from the old DNS Management Service then I can't see you getting any issues in terms of downtime. If they go to old place the records will be there, new place will have them if you have configured them in advance. (logically in my head that would see you ok - DNS Propagation is pretty quick these days though, i make changes to public DNS every day and it never seems to slow me down)

Hi, If you login to Office 365 Admin Center, Select 'Domains' from the left navigation pane and then select the domain in question. You should have an option in the right hand action pane appear called 'domain settings' if you select that option it will take you to a page that show's you the required DNS Records based on the Domain Purpose you have specified. The DNS Records that are listed per service; you just need to ensure that the specified records are configured in your new DNS Management Portal. All DNS Records are important per the respective service; The DNS Verification Record that was used to verify the domain initially does not need to be moved over, it's only used during the verification process. I hope that helps, Regards, James.

Hey All, Some customers may have received an email similar to the following ion Wednesday / Thursday for any objects that were recently updated on their on-premise. ---- ----- note: the blank error and descriptions fields being reported in the emails. After investigation, we have determined these are false positives. If a customer sees this it means the object was actually provisioned/updated successfully. Please verify this by reviewing the object modified on their Azure Active Directory ex. the respective portal or powershell This has since been fixed and so you shouldn't get any errors, unless they are actual errors. I hope that helps, James.