How to create Microsoft app password in Office 365

After enabling MFA, you may have a problem to access email from Android phone or your home computer. Whenever you enter the domain password, it keeps popup for the password. In this case, you may need to create app password. here is how.

  1. Login Office 365 using your credential.
  2. To go My Account by click your image or name.
  3. Click Security & privacy.

4. Under Security & privacy, click on Additional security verification.

5. Click Create and manage app passwords.

6. Write down or copy the created password for your app.

How to check the version of the SMB protocol

You can check the version of the SMB protocol by which the client connects to the server using the PowerShell command:

Get-SmbConnection

On the file server side, you can display a list of the versions of the SMB protocols that the clients are currently using. Run the command:

Get-SmbSession | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Dialect | Sort-Object -Unique

In this example, there are 898 clients connected to the server using SMB 2.1 (Windows 7/ 2008 R2) and 8 clients via SMB 3.02 (Windows 8.1 / 2012 R2).

How to enable SMB in Windows 10

Scan options in Canon printer

There are 3 options in Canon printer:

  1. Scan to email. You need to enter each email addresses or sync them from Active Directory.
  2. One touch. IT administrator needs to configure the storage location and credentials so that everyone can use it without entering the credentials.
  3. New Destination. The user can scan it to a shared folder by entering his/her credentials.

How to disable login password

1. Press the Image+ R combination on your keyboard.

2. Type control userpasswords2 then click on ok.

3. Make the UAC Affirmation.

4. Now switch to Users tab. Uncheck the option “Users must enter a user name and passwordto use this computer”.

5. Click on Apply. Now in Automatically sign in window type your password and confirm it.

6. Click on OK and that’s it. Now whenever you open windows, you will be automatically sign in.

Free Windows 10 upgrade for machines running Windows 7 or 8.1?

Q: Where can I get the free Windows 10 upgrade for machines running Windows 7 or 8.1?
A: The free upgrade offer extension for Windows 7 and Windows 8 customers who use assistive technologies expired on December 31, 2017

However, if you download the Windows Update image, you may be able to do it.

Also read this information:

All the Ways You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 for Free

Here’s how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade | ZDNet

How to check sign-in status in Microsoft azure

Situation: The client get a lot hacking and one of their user accounts has been used to send spyware to his clients. The company would like to check the sign-in failure status in Azure.

Procedure:

  1. Login azure account and access Azure Active Directory>Users>Sign-in.

2. You can search a single user or all users sign-in status. You may also download the report.