Office Activation or Other Issues

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If office fails to activate - possibly displaying a blank logon window or the logon window disappears - use the Office Diagnostic tool found here:  https://diagnostics.office.com/#/ The tool must be run as administrator but sign in as the user that is experience the activation issues.  Office may activate under the Administrator account instead of the user's account even though you sign in with the user's credentials.  Follow these steps to switch the license from the Administrator to the User - in addition to the instructions on the following page make sure to log into the Admin Office 365 account online and click to Deactivate the computer from that account:  Changing Office Pro Plus Activation Credentials for Windows...
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Changing Office Pro Plus Activation Credentials for Windows

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Changing Office Pro Plus Activation Credentials for Windows Created by: Nathan Mitchell Note: This article only applies if you need to change your Office Pro Plus activation credentials to another account that has the same Office 365 license as your current account. If you are upgrading or downgrading your Office 365 license you must uninstall Office Pro Plus then re-install Office Pro Plus from the portal of the other account. This is required because different Office 365 licenses provide different levels of Office Pro Plus functionality. 1. Open Microsoft Word > Click your name in the upper right corner then click  Switch Account > Click Sign Out > Click Sign Out next to the account Office Pro Plus is currently activated on then click Yes on the Remove Account window. 2. Close Microsoft Word > In Windows 8.1 or older Click Start > type cmd in the search bar > right-click on the Command Prompt program > click Run as Administrator. In Windows 10...
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How to configure an L2TP/IPsec server behind NAT

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INTRODUCTION Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows By default, Windows Vista and the Windows Server 2008 operating system do not support Internet Protocol security (IPsec) network address translation (NAT) Traversal (NAT-T) security associations to servers that are located behind a NAT device. Therefore, if the virtual private network (VPN) server is behind a NAT device, a Windows Vista-based VPN client computer or a Windows Server 2008-based VPN client computer cannot make a Layer Two...
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VPN Only Shows Some But Not All Folders – Offline Files Issue

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The issue is that when connected to VPN, only a small subset of folders appear in a network drive.  For example maybe a network shared drive has 20 folders but when connected to VPN only 3 of those 20 folders appear.  This could be due to an Offline Files issue where certain folders are synced between the computer and the server for some reason but the other folders are not.  Only the synced folders appear when connected to VPN.  You could disable Offline Folders which should stop the sync and force the computer to show all folders or try the following to disable Slow Link Detection and thus prevent Windows from displaying only synced folders.   Disable the Configure Slow-Link Mode Group Policy Computer Configuration – Administrative Templates – Network – Offline Files – Configure Slow-Link Mode (disable turns it off)   Set Configure Group Policy Slow Link Detection to 0 (All connections are Fast) Computer Configuration –...
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Windows 10 Not Getting IP From DHCP (Limited Connectivity LAN or WAN)

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By Dinesh If your Windows 10 desktop or laptop suddenly lost the network connectivity and showing limited connectivity, then this how-to guide will be useful. Your Wi-Fi or Wired network can go offline and can’t connect to the network. This will impact the internet and other network activities on your computer. The below steps show how to fix Windows 10 limited connectivity issue on the wireless or wired network. If it shows as limited connectivity, mostly the network adapter would not have got an IP from the DHCP. If only one particular PC is facing this issue on your network/home, then apparently nothing wrong with the network setup or DHCP server, it is a problem on your Windows 10 laptop or desktop. When I recently faced this similar issue randomly on a Windows 10 and another Windows 8.1 laptop, the following steps helped me to solve the problem. This problem is not specifically for the Wireless network adapter; it...
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Connect to VPN in Windows 10 with one click [desktop shortcut]

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Right click the Desktop and select New - Shortcut. In the shortcut target box, type or copy-paste the following command:rasphone -d "VPN connection name" See the following screenshot: Set the desired icon and name for your shortcut. Once you do this, just click this shortcut to connect to a VPN directly. You can pin it anywhere you want.   For Disconnect create another shortcut with:  rasphone –h “VPN Name”     Another option: Connect: rasdial “VPN Name” [username] [password] Disconnect: rasdial “VPN Name” /DISCONNECT     Original Links: http://winaero.com/blog/connect-to-vpn-in-windows-10-with-one-click-desktop-shortcut/ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-networking/vpn-connection-shortcuts/e94fa04c-e8e0-4499-8cc5-e7a342912725...
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NTLM Windows Credential Leak

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Understanding the Windows Credential Leak Flaw and How to Prevent It By Lawrence Abrams August 5, 2016 12:48 PM 34 This week there has been a lot of news about a flaw in Windows that could be used by web sites to easily gain access to a visitor's Windows login name and password. When I tested this flaw it was downright scary.  Using a test site for this flaw, the site was able to get my test Microsoft Account login name and the hash of its password in a few seconds.  Then it took the site less than 30 seconds to crack the password! What is even scarier, is that this flaw is not new and was discovered in March 1997! Test shows my account info and PasswordYes. I changed the password already. News about this flaw was recently reported again by VPN company Perfect Private and by ValdikSS, who is affiliated with the Russian...
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Disable NetBIOS and SMB to protect public Web servers – TechRepublic

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techrepublic.com Disable NetBIOS and SMB to protect public Web servers - TechRepublic Mike Mullins Serving data to users outside of an internal network, public Web servers are typically the first point of contact for an external attack. In addition, internal networking ports are the most revealing and most often attacked ports on a server. That's why you need to make sure you've disabled the services that are specifically for intranets. The two biggest culprits that you need to worry about are the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Both services can reveal a wealth of security information and are reoccurring vectors for hacks and attacks. They're unnecessary for the operation of a public Web server, and you should take steps to shut down both services on these servers. Disable NetBIOS NetBIOS was once a useful protocol developed for nonroutable LANs. In this case, it acts as a session-layer protocol transported over TCP/IP to provide name resolution to...
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Nslookup

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Nslookup Updated: April 17, 2012 Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows 8 Displays information that you can use to diagnose Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure. Before using this tool, you should be familiar with how DNS works. The Nslookup command-line tool is available only if you have installed the TCP/IP protocol. Syntax Nslookup [<-SubCommand ...>] [{<ComputerToFind> | -<Server>}] Nslookup /exit Nslookup /finger [<UserName>] [{[>] <FileName>|[>>] <FileName>}] Nslookup /{help | ?} Nslookup /ls [<Option>] <DNSDomain> [{[>] <FileName>|[>>] <FileName>}] Nslookup /lserver <DNSDomain> Nslookup /root Nslookup /server <DNSDomain> Nslookup /set <KeyWord>[=<Value>] Nslookup /set all Nslookup /set class=<Class> Nslookup /set [no]d2 Nslookup /set [no]debug Nslookup /set [no]defname Nslookup /set domain=<DomainName> Nslookup /set [no]ignore Nslookup /set port=<Port> Nslookup /set querytype=<ResourceRecordType> Nslookup /set [no]recurse Nslookup /set retry=<Number> Nslookup /set root=<RootServer> Nslookup /set [no]search Nslookup /set srchlist=<DomainName>[/...] Nslookup /set timeout=<Number> Nslookup /set type=<ResourceRecordType> Nslookup /set [no]vc Nslookup /view <FileName> Parameters Parameter Description Nslookup -exit Exits nslookup. Nslookup -finger Connects with the finger server on the current computer. Nslookup -help Displays a short summary of nslookup subcommands. Nslookup -ls Lists...
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Use Hosted Application Using Out-of-Date ActiveX Controls in Internet Explorer (IE)

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SYMPTOMS: When you access a local area network (LAN), an intranet share, or an intranet Web site by using an Internet Protocol (IP) address or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), the share or Web site may be identified as in the Internet zone instead of in the Local intranet zone. For example, this behavior may occur if you access shares or Web sites with Microsoft Internet Explorer or Windows Internet Explorer, with Microsoft Windows Explorer, with a command prompt, or with a Windows-based program when you use an address in any one of the following formats: \\Computer.childdomain.domain.com\Share http://computer.childdomain.domain.com \\157.54.100.101\share file://157.54.100.101/share http://157.54.100.101 This behavior can occur regardless of whether any or all of the following settings are configured: In Microsoft Internet Explorer or in Windows Internet Explorer, you have added the FQDN (or *.domain.com)...
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