Outlook password not working on Thunderbird

August 3, 2022 / Kannan / 0 Comments

When configuring Thunderbird with Outlook 365 account, the password fails when using IMAP account type.

I use multi factor authentication and hence this is little difficult than using plain old password. The following configuration is the recommended method across almost all articles in the Internet, but still the password will fail. There is a solution which I came across in the forums, which worked for me and I’m documenting it here.

IMAP configuration

Incoming server configuration

  • outlook.office365.com
  • SSL/TLS
  • Port 993
  • OAuth2
  • Full email address as username

SMTP server configuration

  • smtp.office365.com
  • STARTTLS
  • Port 587
  • Full email address as username

User configuration at Microsoft Admin Center

  • Go to tenant admin center. The URL at the time of writing this article is https://admin.microsoft.com.
  • Go to Users > Active users.
  • Click/press on the user who has get the incorrect password error.
  • In the properties panel, click/press the “Mail” tab.
  • Under the “Email apps” section, click the link “Manage email apps”.
  • Look at the check box “Authenticated SMTP”.
  • Check it if not already checked. If already checked, un check it, press save changes, follow the above steps and check it again.
  • Finally save the changes.
  • Wait for some 5 to 15 minutes.

Now try adding the account in Thunderbird and most probably this should resolve the issue.

For me the app password didn’t work but the above with OAuth worked!

Finding OneDrive for Business space usage using PowerShell

February 13, 2020 / Kannan / 0 Comments

Microsoft OneDrive for Business Logo One of the SharePoint Online administrator of the customer I work with wanted to know the space used by a business user’s private OneDrive.

The following PowerShell script helps to know the exact same information.

The script assumes that you have the SharePoint administrator role in your tenant.

To run this script “SharePoint Online Management Shell” PowerShell module should have been installed

Make sure you update the variables $tenantName & $url

Please note that the below scripts use minimal error handling for simplicity and clean code.

Script for single URL

Clear-Host
 
$tenantName = "tenant name"
$url = "https://unit4-my.sharepoint.com/personal/<user one drive url>"
 
Connect-SPOService -Url "https://$tenantName-admin.sharepoint.com"
 
$sc = Get-SPOSite $url -Detailed -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object url, storageusagecurrent, Owner 
$usage = [math]::round(($sc.StorageUsageCurrent/1024),2)
$owner = $sc.Owner
 
Write-Host "Site: $url"
Write-Host "Owner: $owner"
Write-Host "Usage: $usage GB"
 
Disconnect-SPOService

The following script helps to do the same for multiple URLs. All you need is a text file with OneDrive URL per line and it will provide output in a csv file.

Script for multiple URLs

$inputFileName = "OneDrive-Usage-URLs.txt"
$outputFileName = "OneDrive-Usage-URLs.csv"

Clear-Host
$tenantName = "tenant name"

Connect-SPOService -Url "https://$tenantName-admin.sharepoint.com"
$inputFile = Get-Content -Path .\$inputFileName
Add-Content .\$outputFileName -Value "URL,Owner,Usage (GB)"

foreach ($url in $inputFile) {
    $sc = Get-SPOSite $url -Detailed -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Select-Object url, storageusagecurrent, Owner
    $usage = [math]::round(($sc.StorageUsageCurrent / 1024), 2)
    $owner = $sc.Owner
    Add-Content .\$outputFileName -Value "$url,$owner,$usage"
    Write-Host "Site: $url"
    Write-Host "Owner: $owner"
    Write-Host "Usage: $usage GB"
    Write-Host ""
}

Disconnect-SPOService

Input file format (OneDrive-Usage-URLs.txt)

https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user1_tenant_com
https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user2_tenant_com

Output file format (OneDrive-Usage-URLs.csv)

URL,Owner,Usage (GB)
https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user1_tenant_com,user1@tenant.com,123.45
https://unit4-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user2_tenant_com,user2@tenant.com,678.90

Logon attempt failed for remote desktop Windows 10

June 22, 2019 / Kannan / 0 Comments

Microsoft Windows 10 Logo

Scenario

  • My remote PC is a Windows 10 Pro v1809.
  • The remote PC Windows user is an Office 365 user.
  • I’m trying to login to my remote PC and I get the error “Logon attempt failed”.
  • The following are the various user IDs I tried and none of them worked.
    • user@domain.com
    • AzureAD\user@domain.com
    • AzureAD\user
The logon attempt failed

Solution

  1. Save an RDP connection as file with parameters like name of the PC.
  2. Open the RDP file using a text editor like notepad.
  3. Modify the entry “authentication level” to “authentication level:i:0”
    1. Make sure the “Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication” is unchecked in the remote machine’s settings.
  4. Add the entry “enablecredsspsupport:i:0”.
  5. Now save the file.
  6. Run the RDP file and it should connect to remote machine and show you the login screen of the remote machine
  7. Type in the username as AzureAD\user@domain.com
  8. Password as login password and not the Windows PIN.
  9. Now you should be able to login.

Refer here for more information.