{"id":10761,"date":"2024-03-10T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T21:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10761"},"modified":"2024-03-10T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T21:31:22","slug":"office-365-activation-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10761","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 Activation Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working to lock down our workstations &#8230; not &#8220;so secure you cannot use it&#8221;, but <em>just<\/em> this side of the functional\/nonfunctional line. Everything went surprisingly well <em>except<\/em> I use the Office 365 suite for work. Periodically, it has to &#8220;phone home&#8221; and verify my work account is still valid. And <em>that<\/em> didn&#8217;t seem to go through the proxy well. The authentication screen would pop up and immediately throw an error:<\/p>\n<p>No internet connection. Please check your network settings and try again [2604]<\/p>\n<p>I spent a whole bunch of time playing around with the firewall rules, the proxy rules &#8230; and finally went so far as to just turn off the firewall and remove the proxy. And it <em>still<\/em> didn&#8217;t work. Which was nice because it means I didn&#8217;t break it &#8230; but also meant it was going to be a <em>lot<\/em> harder to fix!<\/p>\n<p>Finally found the culprit &#8212; a new Windows installation, for some reason, uses really old SSL\/TLS versions. Turned on 1.2 and, voila, I&#8217;ve got a sign-on screen. Sigh! Turned the firewall &amp; proxy back on, and everything works beautifully. I think I&#8217;m going to add these settings to the domain policy so I don&#8217;t have to configure this silliness every time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TLSVersions-Windows.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TLSVersions-Windows.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TLSVersions-Windows.png 504w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TLSVersions-Windows-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working to lock down our workstations &#8230; not &#8220;so secure you cannot use it&#8221;, but just this side of the functional\/nonfunctional line. Everything went surprisingly well except I use the Office 365 suite for work. Periodically, it has to &#8220;phone home&#8221; and verify my work account is still valid. And that didn&#8217;t seem &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1737,1527,265,136],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-firewall","tag-office","tag-office-365","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10763,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions\/10763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}