Office

Outlook Contacting:\\googleads.g.doubleclick

6 February 2019
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Outlook, RougeKiller, Security

Had a customer with an issue of Outlook “Not Responding“, and a dialog box would popup saying: Microsoft Outlook Contacting: \\googleads.g.doubleclick.net\pagead\viewthroughconversation\877065211”.

Running Outlook in safe mode would stop this from happening. Go to run and type in “outlook /safe” and hit enter.

The following article lead us to possible Malware. There were no obvious browser add-ins or extensions that could be causing this. We found the following article which prompted us to install and run RougeKiller.

Click here to see article.

RougeKiller found 3 items that we didn’t really see as a threat. One was just a shortcut, but one was a registry entry. We recreated the short and let RougeKiller Quarantine the three items. We restarted the machine and the issue didn’t popup again. We uninstalled RougeKiller and restarted the machine and Outlook was working properly.

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Outlook a program is trying to access e-mail address

6 December 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Outlook, Outlook Add-in, Security, VIPRE

We had a customer who’s Outlook keep popping up the following dialog box.

Here is the link we used to understand the issue.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/i-get-warnings-about-a-program-accessing-email-address-information-or-sending-email-on-my-behalf-86cc5ece-379e-45e3-b8eb-3fefba09946b

This location uses Vipre Antivirus. We logged onto their server and went into the Vipre console. The customer’s machine appeared up-to-date with the client; however, the definitions were slightly behind. Not by much. We pushed “Definition Upates”, and this resolved the issue right-a-way.

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Outlook Keeps Asking For My Credentials

29 October 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Outlook, Window 7, Windows, Windows 10

We were having this issue with one of our employees. He would login using his network password. He could access our Outlook Web App (OWA) which requires his same network password; however, when we entered that password into his Outlook we would get “Wrong username or password“.

The solution came with the “Credential Manager“.  There was a long “MicrosoftOffice15_Data:orgid:….“.  I click on this to expand and hit “Remove from vault“, and this fixed the issue.

Although this worked for several customers we had one that required us to create a new profile in the Mail portion of the Control Panel.

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Migrating Email From Rackspace To Office 365 Godaddy Domain

26 October 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Domain Name, Email, Office 365

We have been moving some customers over to Office 365.

Here are some of the steps required to do this.

  1. Setup the account in Office 365.
  2. Use the migration tool
  3. In Office 365 go under Setup >> Domains >> give it a second and it should populate the 3 records you will need to update.
    MX
    TXT
    CNAME
  4. We removed all the older record pertaining to SecureServer.net which was POP, SMTP, CNAME, TXT, and the MX record.
  5. Added the 3 records shown above.
  6. Sent a test and received the email. Replied back and was able to verify the customer could receive the email.

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Find Office 365 Partner Relationship

12 October 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Office 365

We needed to find a new customer’s reseller account for Office 365. It is easy…

  1. Log into their Office 365 account.
    If you are locked out of the admin account start the process to correct as soon as you can.
  2. Our accounts show an “Admin” button on the dashboard/splash screen, click the “Admin” button.
  3. On the left-side menu expand “Settings” by clicking on “Settings” and select “Partner relationships“

The following article got me headed on the right path.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/find-your-office-365-partner-or-reseller-b6c18a9b-2aed-4c84-9d75-af709160258c

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Outlook Not Opening Excel Document – EMET

21 September 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: EMET, MalwareBytes, Office, Word

Had a customer who was having issues opening Office attachments from Outlook. EMET was popping up and preventing Excel and Word from opening attachments in Outlook.

I found this article which got me started.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/deeb260d-96c5-4cb4-80a0-f5242d33095b/emet-55-simexecflow-blocking-excel-amp-other-office-opening?forum=emet

This didn’t fix the issue because Excel and Word were still blocked by EMET.  This also messed up the Office 2013 install, so I ran a repair on Office 2013 from Add and Remove Programs. When Excel opened up I had to re-activate the Office programs. I got this repaired.

I removed EMET and re-installed the latest EMET 5.5. This still didn’t resolve the issue. I found this this next link that lead me down a good path.

https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/144762-emet-simexecflow-problem-now-appears-fix-on-my-system/

I removed MalwareBytes, restarted the machine, and everything was working now.

I imported the three .XML files mentioned in the link above as well.

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Godaddy Domain To Office 365

11 September 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: Domain Name, Godaddy Web Hosting, Office 365

We recently had to move a domain from Wild West Domains to another Godaddy Reseller hosting account. This was able to be done in just a few minutes where a domain transfer usually takes a week to complete. We ran into issue when Godaddy moved the DNS in the background and then asked me what the MX record was. They didn’t explain to me that that we should have written it down, so now we had to start from scratch.

I logged into their Office 365 account as the Admin and went to Setup >> Domains.  We could see there were issues with the various records.

We clicked on the domain name with the issue and it lead us to some screens to fix the issue.

We clicked on the “click here to view”.

Clicking on “Fix my Records” took me to a Godaddy Login where it asked for authorization and then it would fix my records; however, I had already went in and manually updated the records. Their page gave me good instructions on what records to add.  It was broken up in sections and those sections had titles. Those title were the type of record I needed to add. In the image above you will see “MX Records” and CName Records”.

My final records were as follows:

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Xerox ColorCube 9303 – SMTP Scan To Email Settings

2 August 2018
Dwayne Grimes
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Categories: ColorQube, Office 365, Printer, Xerox

A customer called in because the hard drive in their copier died and was replaced. Since it was replaced the settings were never the same and their “Scan-to-folder” and “scan-to-email” was no longer working.

I could see there was an attempt by someone to get this set up; however, they would get an error about failing to send because of SMTP authentication. In the web interface of the printer which I reached by typing the IP address of the printer into the browser window and supplying the default credentials of “admin” and password “1111”.

Go to the “Properties” tab and in the Menu on the left under “Services” go to “Email” and then “Setup”. Go to the “Required Information” tab. This group is using Office 365 to handle their email, so I needed the following settings:

  • SMTP Server: smtp.office365.com
  • Port: 587
  • Host Name:  check this box.
  • Device Email Address: I had to add a valid email address and password.

While still in the “SMTP (Email)” section go to the “SMTP Authentication” tab. Here is what we needed fixed. It should look like the following:

You can use the “test configuration” button to make sure it is working properly.

This YouTube video did help me get the connection to Active Directory working correctly.

Here is a link to Xerox’s support for the copier I was working on.

http://www.support.xerox.com/support/colorqube-9300-series/contact/enus.html?fileLanguage=en

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