Microsoft 365 Information, How-To’s, Tips, Tools, and Guides
Quick how-to for updating Firefox with screenshots included.
Open Firefox
Click the hamburger icon (shown below) which is in the top right of your computer screen
Click Help (shown below) then select About
If there is an update, it will show here, if the update is installed you will need to restart the browser as shown. And that is it!
Quick How-To on installing and running the app
First – Get Global Administrator permissions to the M365 Tenant
Second – Open a browser and login into it using the newly created Global Administrator Account
Next Download SCuBAGear from – https://github.com/cisagov/ScubaGear
Open PowerShell as an Administrator (right click and select this) on the computer that you will run SCuBAGear from
cd C:\directory\ScubaGear-main\
To the directory you installed SCuBAGear
Type
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
Type
Import-Module -Name .\PowerShell\ScubaGear
Type
.\SetUp.ps1
Type:
Disconnect-SCuBATenant
Type:
invoke-SCuBA
Login as your Global Admin account
The report will run!
For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.
Login into Office.com
Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen
Select Power Automate
Click My Flows
Click +New Flow
Select Scheduled Cloud Flow
Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run
Click Next
Click + Next Step
Type in mail and press Enter
Select Send EMAIL V3
Put in the FROM address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com
Enter in a To Address for another email you own, that is off domain from the domain you are warming up.
ex: tacticalwarexyz123@gmail.com
Enter in a Subject
Add some Text to the Body
Click Save
Test your Flow, and email should go though now.
Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.
For those of you who need to get a positive reputation on your domain for email campaigns, you first need to warm up the domain. Here is a simple power automate flow to assist with the task.
Login into Office.com
Click on the Menu to the Top Left of the screen
Select Power Automate
Click My Flows
Click +New Flow
Select Scheduled Cloud Flow
Give it a Name, Start Date, and Interval on how often you want it to run
Click Next
Click + Next Step
Type in mail and press Enter
Select Send an Email V2
Put in the address of a user for the new domain you want to send email to
ex: user@tacticalware.com
Enter in a Subject
Add some Text to the Body
Click Save
Test your Flow, and email should go though now.
Next you will want to setup an auto reply on the receiving email address, and also setup a power automate flow from the email domain so you can generate content coming out of it.
This is a quick how-to on setting up the record. If you want a more in-depth one, there are many available elsewhere. So for now, here it is
Login into your Email Server
Create a new email address. Something like dns@tacticalware.com
Next, Login into your DNS Provider
Ex – Network Solutions, Hostgator, ENOM
Navigate to the area to Manage DNS records
Create a TXT record
Name will be
_dmarc
Value will be:
v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dns@tacticalware.com; ruf=mailto:dns@tacticalware.com; fo=1;
Make sure you change dns@tacticalware.com to whatever the email address is that you created in the first step
Save the record
Go to MXToolbox.com and enter your domain name
You should see a green checkmark next to DMARC
Most marketing emails contain a single pixel hidden in the email which tracks you. This pixel calls home, lets the marketers/spammers know that you opened the email, and begins tracking your movement through their system.
Here is how to block it within Outlook on your IOS device (ipad, iphone, etc)
Open Outlook
Click on the File
Select Options
Open Trust Center
Click on Trust Center Settings
Find Automatic Download
Place check mark in:
Don’t download pictures automatically in standard html…..
Don’t download pictures in encrypted or signed…..
Thats it! Tracking pixel disabled
Most marketing emails contain a single pixel hidden in the email which tracks you. This pixel calls home, lets the marketers/spammers know that you opened the email, and begins tracking your movement through their system.
Here is how to block it within Outlook on your IOS device (ipad, iphone, etc)
Open Outlook
Click on the Avatar for you at the top left of the main screen
At the bottom left column you will see a gear. Click it
Find Mail Accounts
Click on your Office 365 Account / Google Account / Whatever you have for email
Find Block External Images
Turn it on
Thats it! Tracking pixel disabled
The time has come to remove your information from BIG TECH. This guide will show you how to get your data off of APPLE’s iCloud, so you can move it to Microsoft (who has largely, and wisely, stayed out of American Politics as of late)
First you will want to log into your iCloud account.
On your computer, open a Browser (not Chrome) and navigate to https://www.icloud.com/
Sign in
Click Calendar
On the left side, select the calendar you want to export
Click on the bars next to it
Select Public
Copy the web address. it will look something like this:
webcal://p51-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/MTExMjE4tJ9gcpOId08zbH1z8S88F_Baxte8C1b-UiaqdDNsmFL5
Open another browser window on your computer (Not Chrome)
Paste the following into the window:
webcal://p51-caldav.icloud.com/published/2/MTExMjE4tJ9gcpOId08zbH1z8S88F_Baxte8C1b-UiaqdDNsmFL5
And change the webcal text to https, so it looks like this:
Press Enter, and it will take some time, however your entire calendar will now be downloaded as an ics file
Make sure you do this for each of your calendars
To Import the data into Outlook
Open Outlook
Click File
Select Open & Export
Click Import Export
Choose Import and iCalendar (.ics) or vCalendar file (.vcs)
Click Next
Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the calendars to
Select a Calendar
Click OK
Choose Import
The calendar will import, and any errors that occur will be displayed
Once the import has completed, the dialog box will automatically close. So keep an eye on the success / failures during the import
Finally, it is time to clean up / delete your calendar from iCloud
Back to the iCloud Calendar page in your web browser
In the Calendar section to the left you will see the Edit link at the bottom
Select Edit
Then click the Red Circle next to each calendar that you want to delete, to remove it
Click Delete when prompted
Your calendar will now delete and your data will be safe from Apple moving forward
This is a quick how-to when it comes to upgrading your subscription.
Go to http://office.com
Login
Click the Admin link
Navigate to Billing on the left and select Products & Services
Click on your Office 365 Subscription, in my case it is Office 365 Business Premium
Select Upgrade from the menu at the bottom of the screen
Find the plan that works for you. For me it was Microsoft 365 Business
Click Upgrade
Select the Billing cycle (Monthly or Yearly)
Click Go to checkout
Verify your billing information
Click Place Order
Your order is now complete and you can proceed to setting up the new features
