Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Xerox Workcentre 59xx scan to Office 365

 I went on to update the other office scanners, and these were easier.
They were able to authenticate with a mail enabled office 365 account to send.

(These directions assume your scanner is already setup on the network and can scan to your local email server)

Log into your Xerox
decent site https://default-password.info/xerox/
default for the 59xx:
admin
1111

Once you're in go to Properties
Email
SMTP

Under Server, you can select Use DNS to select SMTP server, and it will give you the option to update the DNS servers. I added google (8.8.8.8) as the third DNS, the other two being internal servers. I read that the scanner might not find smtp.office365.com without an external DNS, (I didn't test without the external, if it works with just internal DNS let me know.)

Ok, so back to email (link at the top of the DNS page.)
I selected Hostname and entered smtp.office365.com
Device Email address I used the mail enabled account at my domain.

Save

SMTP auth, I used system and put in the mail enabled account. (User@emaildomain.com)


Go to the Connection Encryption tab and select STARTTLS
I tried SSL/TLS and it never connected, STARTTLS and the test went right away.

Test your configuration.

Monday, June 12, 2017

Optiplex 3040 no boot devices found

I got a nice new Dell computer and shipped it out to a user. After a couple months
No boot devices found...
FML

So I had the user send it in to check it out. Data was on the drive. Swapped drive with a clean drive and loaded my windows 7 image to it.
It ran through the image, rebooted.

No boot devices found....
weird.

I took the drive out of my computer and put it in the 3040 case.

No boot devices found...

what the duck?

Put the drive back in my computer. Boots fine.

Double what the duck!

Talked with dell support and they sent me a new drive preloaded with one of their  images. Popped that badboy in, boots like a charm. Issue fixed yay!

So I reimage the drive with the corporate image...

No boot devices found.
Time to throw it in the trash...

But there's more!

After farting around with it for a couple months, and the Dell tech going no contact, I finally figured it out.
I set BIOS boot setting to legacy instead of UEFI.

Imaged drive loads! Yay.

Option 3: Configure a connector to send mail using Office 365 SMTP relay

Creating the "Option 3" connector for multi function printer scanners to scan to email using Office 365. I am using a Ricoh Aficio MP2852

The SMTP server is your MX endpoint (domain-com.mail.protection.outlook.com)
Port 25
TLS enabled

Administrator email I used a mail enabled account.

Add a Mail Flow connector.
Name it what it does and give a description.
Example:
Office Scanner.
Makes it so the scanner can scan to Office 365.

Select "By verifying that the IP address of the sending server matches one of the IP addresses that belong to your organization"
Hit the Plus and put in your local IP (google/bing "what is my IP")

This was getting the mail to Office 365, but it was failing SPF, if you're not checking SPF (you madman) you won't have this issue.

If you are, the next step made it work:
Exchange admin center
Protection
Connection Filter
Add local IP (google/bing "what is my IP") to Allowed IP Address

Disabling Azure AD connect

Disconnected and uninstalled Azure Active Directory Connect from the AD server, but still getting unhealthy synchronizations?
Log into portal.office.com, at the bottom, go to Admin centers, Azure AD
double click on your domain
Directory integration tab and deactivate

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