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How to combine and merge files into one PDF

You can merge two or more files into one PDF using Adobe Acrobat. Here is how.

  1. With Acrobat open, click on the Tools or Create.

  2. Click Combine Files, and then click Add Files to select the files you want to include in your PDF.

  3. Click, drag, and drop to reorder the files and pages. Double-click on a file to expand and rearrange individual pages. Press the Delete key to remove unwanted content.

  4. When finished arranging files, click Combine Files.

  5. Click the Save button.

Can we sync our Windows 2012 r2 AD to azure AD 2016?

Q: We are small company and running two Windows 2012 r2 as domain controllers. We are planning to use Microsoft cloud services and will sync our active directory to Azure Active directory.

Can we sync our Windows 2012 r2 AD to azure AD 2016?

A: It should work. Azure AD has no versioning and you can sync your 2012 R2 environment.

How to get Forest and domain information

Q: We are small company and running two Windows 2012 r2 as domain controllers. We are planning to use Microsoft cloud services and will sync our active directory to Azure Active directory.

To answer some questions from the form sent to us, what are the Forest Name, Forest, site. I can search for the concepts, but can someone give me the example or where can I find them?

The article I read are example, forest name=forest.local, domain name is domain.local, Forest=corporate.local, domain=corporate.local, site=datacenter. I assume since we have only one forest and one domain, all forest name, forest, domain name and domain are the same, for example mydomain.com. The site is Default-First-Site-Name? Not sure.

A: Run PowerShell commands:

Get-ADForest

Get-ADDomain

How and where to change MFA verification settings

To manage MFA verification settings such as Call phone number, Authentication app, go to this page: https://aka.ms/mfasetup or https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/proofup.aspx?proofup=1

Or follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to Office 365 using your password and verification code.
  3. Choose Settings Office 365 Settings button > Office 365.
  4. Choose Security & Privacy > Additional security verification.
  5. Choose Update my phone numbers used for account security. This will display the following page:

Please view this step by step video:

Manage White List in Office 365

To prevent email from being marked as spam in Office 365, you may have 3 options.

  1. Create a rule bypass spam filter. After login Office 365, go to Exchange admin center>mail flow>rule. Create a rule and add the allowed domain.

 

2. Add senders to whitelist. In Exchange admin center, go to protection>Spam filter, click edit icon. Under allow list, add the senders’ emails you want to allow.

3. Add allowed domain in whitelist. Same procedure as 2 and add allowed domains.

How to assign Permissions using Security & Compliance in Office 365

The Office 365 Security & Compliance Center lets you grant permissions to people who perform compliance tasks like device management, data loss prevention, eDiscovery, retention, and so on. Here is how.

  1. login Office 365 using admin account.

  2. In the Office 365 admin center, open Admin centers and then click Security & Compliance.

3. In the Security & Compliance Center, go to Permissions From the list, choose the role group that you want to add the user to and click Edit Edit icon.

4. In the role group’s properties page under Members, click AddAdd Icon and select the name of the user (or users) you want to add.

5. Click Save to save the changes to the role group.

View and release quarantined messages as a regular user in Office 365

Normally, a user will receive quarantine notification once per day if he/she has some quarantined messages. The problem is the user doesn’t get the quarantine email until the next morning so that he/she may get a lot calls from the senders. To avoid this problem, as an Office 365 user, you can view and release quarantined messages by using the Security & Compliance Center. Note: You global administrator need to assign permissions for you.

To view or release quarantined messages, please follow these stpes:

  1. Login Office 365.
  2. Go to the Security and Compliance Center.
  3. On the left, expand Threat Management, choose Review, and then choose Quarantine.

4. here you can view and release quarantined emails.

If the user has been assigned to Compliance Administrator group, he can view and release the quarantined email by following these tseps:

  1. Go to this website: https://admin.protection.outlook.com/Quarantine
  2. Login your account.
  3. Now, you should see this page:4. To release a quarantined email, click the envelope icon.

WSUS Automatic Approvals

You can specify how to automatically approve installation of updates for selected groups, and how to approve revisions to exiting updates.

  1. Click on Options under WSUS server and then Automatic Approvals.

2. Create a Rule or Edit it here.

3. This is an example.