Office 365 – Fast Track Network Analysis (EMEA) Connectivity/Bandwidth tester
If you are having issues with connecting to office 365 services in your office I recommend running the following tool to test your connectivity. Its quite a thourgh test
http://em1-fasttrack.cloudapp.net/o365nwtest
- The first check is a port test to see if the ports are open.
- SMTP – (TCP-25)
- HTTP – (TCP-80)
- https – (TCP-443)
- imap – (TCP-993)
- pop – (TCP-995)
- stun – (UDP-3478)
- lyncpush – (TCP-5223)
- rtp-audio – (UDP-50000-50019)
- rtp-video (UDP – 50020-50039)
- lyncft – (TCP – 50040-50059)
- The second test is a route (hop) test
- The third test is a speed test.
- VoIP Test which is a jitter and packet loss test
- Capacity test which shows the amount of packets the upload/download can handle without packet lost.
- Round Trip time
- Packet loss
- The next three tabs show the data in graphical, summary and advanced forms. If you click on the summary tab and select test audit report this will bring up a URL you can copy and use later to bring back the results of this report.
- Having a high consistency of service is required to make sure you do not get outlook connection dropouts (80%+)
Office 365 – Azure Active Directory Sync Tool (password changes)
If you are using office 365 you may be using the Azure Active Directory Sync Tool to sync up your active directory to office 365.
You are probably aware that by default DirSync runs by default every three hours. I have seen various websites showing how to change the default setting in the Config. file (Microsoft.Online.DirSync.Scheduler) to make the sync happen faster. The main reason is to sync up the changes faster. I have found that this is not necessary to sync password changes up faster as the DirSync tool will sync up the passwords within about 3 minutes in the background. It won’t sync the AD changes such as a change in name but will sync the password in the background.
The details of the sync can be found in the event viewing searching for event ID 656 which is the password sync request ID. You will see the time stamp a couple of minutes after the password is reset.
There are various IDs that you can search for regarding the sync. The list below is taken from the Microsoft site (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2855271)
Office 365 – Azure Active Directory Sync Tool (Synchronisation Service Manager)
You can monitor and see the status of previous syncs to see what information has been synced up by the Azure Active Directory Sync using the Synchronisation Service Manager. By default you can find this application in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Windows Azure Active Directory Sync\SYNCBUS\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe
When running the application you will see the screen looking like this:
You can see the previous syncs and the details of what information has been synced by double clicking the relevant name and selecting the relevant export statistics in the bottom left hand corner.
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Office 365 Updates
- Office Deployment ToolThe Office Deployment Tool (ODT) is a command-line tool that you can use to download and deploy Click-to-Run versions of Office, such as Office 365 ProPlus, to your client computers.
- Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization ToolThis download includes Group Policy Administrative Template (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool (OPAX/OPAL) files for Microsoft Office 2016 applications.
- Microsoft Cloud App Security SIEM AgentThe Cloud App Security SIEM agent enables integration of Cloud App Security activities and alerts into your SIEM server
- Language Packs (SP1) for SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1Language packs enable creation of sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1
Microsoft Security Updates
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Cisco Security Advisories
- Cisco IP Phone 7800 Series and 8800 Series Denial of Service VulnerabilityA vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call-handling functionality of Cisco IP Phone 7800 Series and IP Phone 8800 Series could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected phone. The vulnerability is due to incomplete input validation of SIP Session Description Protocol (SDP) parameters by the SDP parser […]
- CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure VulnerabilitiesOn January 3, 2018, researchers disclosed three vulnerabilities that take advantage of the implementation of speculative execution of instructions on many modern microprocessor architectures to perform side-channel information disclosure attacks. These vulnerabilities could allow an unprivileged local attacker, in specific circumstances, to read privileged memory belonging to other processes or memory allocated to the operating […]
- CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: May 2018On May 21, 2018, researchers disclosed two vulnerabilities that take advantage of the implementation of speculative execution of instructions on many modern microprocessor architectures to perform side-channel information disclosure attacks. These vulnerabilities could allow an unprivileged, local attacker, in specific circumstances, to read privileged memory belonging to other processes. The first vulnerability, CVE-2018-3639, is known […]
- Cisco Meeting Server Information Disclosure VulnerabilityA vulnerability in Cisco Meeting Server (CMS) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to access services running on internal device interfaces of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to incorrect default configuration of the device, which can expose internal interfaces and ports on the external interface of the system. A successful exploit could allow […]
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