AVINASH GADGE, Infrastructure Solutions

Today we will talk about commands which will give you more information about Ports on your machine and Server.  1) Portqry Use following syntax for the same.  Portqry – e PORT -n SERVERNAME 2) Tect-Netconnection https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn372891(v=wps.630).aspx Test-NetConnection – I used it today to check if the HTTPS port (443) was active on a test server I was working on.  Pretty useful command! There is a parameter called ‘CommonTCPPort’ and you can use it to check if SMB,HTTP,RDP, or Ping are available. 

Hello Fellas,  Do you really think blocking USB is big thing? If yes let me remind you in Windows World everything is registry and if something is blocked than it has same registry to unlock it.  You can block USB mass storage with Symantec End Point Protection also and it’s even more simple than Group policy few next and you are good. http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH175220 Symantec Endpoint Protection you can block access for users to use USB Pen drives and allow usage of Keyboard and mouse.   1. In the SEPM, Under View Policies, select Application and Device Control 2. Right click the Application and Device Control Policy and select Edit. 3. Select the Device Control view. 4. Under the Blocked Devices section, click Add, select USB and click OK. (If Disk Drives isn't listed, it is already added as a Blocked Device). 5. Under Devices Excluded from Blocking, click Add. 6. Select Human Interface Devices and the devices to restrict one of ...

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configurationmgr/2016/05/17/new-update-rollups-for-windows-7-windows-8-1-and-windows-server/#comments

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21Vianet - Office 365. Friend's if you are working on O365 and while configuring you see option for 21Vianet. Please don't select it as it stores your data in China Data Centre. As per China Govt. there data should be within country and that's why Microsoft is working with 21Vianet. https://blogs.office.com/2014/04/18/office-365-operated-by-21vianet-becomes-generally-available-in-china/

Hello Friends, I came across good tool IdFix which identifies errors such as duplicates and formatting problems in your directory (Active Directory). URL: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Install-and-run-the-Office-365-IdFix-tool-f4bd2439-3e41-4169-99f6-3fabdfa326ac

Hello Folks, U know Exchange doesn’t support .NET Framework 4.6.1 hence please don’t install on your exchange servers. here is the post published from Microsoft... http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2016/02/10/on-net-framework-4-6-1-and-exchange-compatibility.aspx