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MC424414 – Updated April 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the content to reflect the change to Viva Engage. Thank you for your patience. Non-Native and Hybrid Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) Networks will be upgraded to Native Mode to allow users, groups, and content to be compatible with and mapped to their counterparts in Azure…

How can I change the Telnet banner seen when connecting to my Windows Server 2003 server via Telnet? MS KB article 245095 has more: When you use Telnet to connect to the a Windows 2000/2003-based server the following banner is displayed: ​*========================================================== Welcome to Microsoft Telnet Server. *========================================================== C:’Documents and Settings’Administrator> You can change your…

Daniel Petri shares three different ways to enable the helpful Telnet client for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 to meet your IT needs.

Windows Server 2003 has the Telnet disabled by default (and so good that it does!) To have the Telnet service running on Windows Server 2003 follow the next steps: Go to the Services applet in Administrative Tools (or click Start, then Run, and type "services.msc" (without quotes) and click OK). Find the "Telnet" service, right-click…

How can I verify that my Exchange server is accepting connections? How can I connect to my Exchange server via Telnet? Sometimes you might want to troubleshoot your Exchange server from outside your corporate LAN (or from within, it makes no difference) in order to see if it accepts incoming connections. An example for this…

Telnet is a client/server protocol used for accessing remote servers. As the name might suggest, Telnet was originally used on terminals that only required a keyboard because everything on the screen was displayed in text, usually from a mainframe computer. The terminal used Telnet to remotely log in to a mainframe server or other computer….

  Telnet Client allows a computer to connect to a remote Telnet server and run applications on that server. Once logged on, a user is given a command prompt that can be used as if it had been opened locally on the Telnet server’s console. Commands that you type at the Telnet client command prompt…

As much as each software vendor would like it to be so, most IT environments are not homogenous. Most shops do not run Linux or Windows or Solaris exclusively. So what happens when a user on one type of system needs to interact with another type of system? To be more specific what should a…

Darrell Webster speaks to Rebecca Keys, a Program Manager from the Microsoft Loop team. Including the latest and greatest that’s arrived in Microsoft Loop. Transcript Hey, this is Darrell Webster for UnplugIT. I had the privilege of being able to go to Microsoft Redmond and for the Microsoft MVP Summit. And there I met with…

Microsoft has released a new “convert to internal user” feature in preview for its Microsoft Entra ID service. The latest release allows IT administrators to seamlessly convert external accounts into internal ones to ensure a smooth transition without disrupting user access and workflows. Microsoft mentioned that most enterprise customers use a combination of internal and…