I have an external user that needs access to a shared mailbox within Office 365.

I have a client that runs two businesses with the one set of staff. Half the employees have [email protected], the others have [email protected] addresses.

Some employees are shared between the businesses, so a user may have the address [email protected], but needs to monitor a mailbox for the other business such as [email protected].

From what I can see you can't add contacts to a shared mailbox.

I'm hoping someone may have come across this problem before and may be able to help me out with a solution.

Thanks.

winter solstice today, sun up at 7:55am, 1 degree outside. beautiful morning just darn cold.

Thanks everyone for the help, it's greatly appreciated.

Haha. About to mow the lawns.
Happy Sunday morning neighbours!

Just for anyone else who may ask the same question - I came across an open source program, Avidemux, simple to use and understand & free.

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

don't think i've ever had more grief with a windows os version post 95, more than i have with 10. bsod, bsod, bsod.
&
sth korea defeated germany, outstanding.

You probably weren't unlucky enough to use Windows Me.

Took a look at ME and thought nup, it was junk.

I was lucky enough to install NT 3.1 off 30 or so 1.44Mb FDD though, quite a few times.

I don't know what has happened to Microsoft (with 10 and 2016 and their updates in mind). They seem to have forgotten or chosen to overlook all the data & experience they would have gained from the past 30 years working with businesses that use their OSs. These feature updates, does anyone actually use the crap that is included in them?
Everywhere I go and everywhere I read people hate these massive unneeded, unwanted downloads.

Well I dug out an old Centrino Duo 2 with 3GB or RAM and it upgraded fine from W7 Pro to W10 Pro and the upgrade was slow but pain free.

Thanks everyone for the help.

@siringo Haha! toasted lamb & cheese sanger.

I need to change the local admin password at two sites on around 10 PCs per site.

The GPP option no longer is available, free tools fail.

I'm looking at some type of scripted solution I can run that will also provide me with a Success or Failed message as well, no point running a script if you're not sure it worked.

Clients are W7 & W10.

Anyone have any suggestions?

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo Haha! toasted lamb & cheese sanger.

sounds glorious

Yep it was pretty good, with a nice cup of tea, all set for the rest of the day, which is ending early today!

I have to ask a dumb question, sorry.

I work on my own and just need to throw some stuff out there to get some general thoughts.

A client has about 15 W7 PCs, they can't afford to replace the PCs so I'm just going to upgrade them to W10.

Just imagine that the upgrade went fine, the hardware is fine, drivers are OK etc, should programs that are running happily on these Windows 7 PCs still run happily on/in/under Windows 10?

I know we can't give an iron clad guarantees and know how everything will end up, but what have others found that have done this?

Have you found it's been a nightmare or have programs just continued to run properly?

I'm not after specifics, just an in general type conclusion.
Thanks or any help.

I

dodging rain drops & low temperatures.
watching a very interesting doco on the vietnam war by ken burns.

@MC_Bol said in Windows 7 to Windows 10 Upgrade Experiences:

@siringo said in W7 to 10 Upgrade. Experiences.:

I work on my own and just need to throw some stuff out there to get some general thoughts.
A client has about 15 W7 PCs, they can't afford to replace the PCs so I'm just going to upgrade them to W10.
Just imagine that the upgrade went fine, the hardware is fine, drivers are OK etc, should programs that are running happily on these Windows 7 PCs still run happily on/in/under Windows 10?
I know we can't give an iron clad guarantees and know how everything will end up, but what have others found that have done this?
Have you found it's been a nightmare or have programs just continued to run properly?

In general Windows 10 really handle very well the upgrade process (even better than Windos 7)... I remember Windows XP to Windows 7 upgrades, mostly need a new fresh installation. Said that, the short answer is yes... it´s easy and relatively fast, but as you said, there are not guarantees, there may appear some issues or delays, and there is an universe of situations: Hardware/Software compatibility, etc. The good news is that with Windows Update Tool may help you to prevent of most of the issues related to HW/SW compatibility. My best suggestion is to order all devices, grouping them based on similirities, such as HW and/or age. Test the upgrade in one of each group, see how it run, and then apply to the rest of the group. After the upgrade, take a moment for a restore point and proceed with last windows updates (for some reason some updates may generate some conflicts with old HW). My final advice, once finished, free space on your HDD deleting temp files... Windows 10 has some easy options to perform that.

Some very good advice in there, thanks @MC_Bol

eating chocolate biscuits!

Just read about Zoom's privacy issues, not good.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

eating chocolate biscuits!

TimTams?

No, Chocolate Teddies, an all time favourite.
Snags for tea I think.

I've been having trouble getting Zerotier to work on RDS servers.

I'm using the current client version and installing it on 2012R2 and 2016 RDS servers.

In the Zerotier management console, the Zerotier client says that it is connected and gets a Zerotier IP address and reports a status of OK.

The client has been authorised and shows as online, however I can't ping or RDP to the RDS server.

Thanks for any help.

sizing up a nas. building a wsus server. ordering stuff. listening to some bloke play the saxamaphone.

OK, all fixed. All I'm going to say is that I need to slow my typing down & take more care.

I'm about 99% sure that after almost 30 years of supporting end users, I just have no more patience left. I find myself almost immediately going for my sidearm instead of a deep breath and friendly demeanor.

The other day I had an end user ............ . . . . . .. ... . . .... . .. . I can't talk about. That night I drank too much.