Failure extending the schema in the Active Directory?
It is possible while installing the Active Directory Connector (ADC), or while running an Exchange setup Forestprep action, to be greeted with this incredibly generic error message: Extending the schema in the Active Directory failed. Please consult the error log LDIF.ERR in your TEMP directory. When presented with this error message, you might dutifully go off to find yourr LDIF.ERR log, as directed, and find nothing of the sort present in your temp directory. So now what? Well, one possible explanation is that you’ve got spaces in your temp dir path. I know, I know – what up? Here’s the scoop: Exchange setup and ADC setup both need to import a bunch of schema into Active Directory on initial installation. To do this, they call on a little Windows utility called ldifde.exe. Ldifde.exe takes as one of its parameters a directory path for the location of its log file. Our setups pass as this parameter the path to the current user’s TEMP directory. The code calls a Win32 API (GetTempDir()), which returns the value of the TMP/TEMP variables, and appends a trailing backslash to the string (presumably so a filename can be just tacked on the end). If our code gets back the temp dir string and finds a space anywhere in it, we’ll enclose the whole string in quotation marks (perfectly reasonable string handling practice). However, when we pass a quoted string to ldifde.exe, it barfs. In fact, it barfs so early that it isn’t even able to write an LDIF.ERR log to the TEMP dir. Why does ldifde.exe panic when it gets our string? That’s where the bug is — I’m guessing ldifde.exe reads the trailing backslash and quotation mark at the end of the string (\”)as an escape sequence, and so doesn’t think the string is actually formatted correctly. The owners of ldifde are currently investigating this. How is it that you’ve got a space in your temp dir path? Well, by default the temp dir path is something like D:\Documents and Settings\Alex\Local Settings\Temp. “But wait,” you say, “there are spaces all over the place in that path.” Right you are. However, by happy accident your temp dir variable actually gets constructed by default using 8.3 short file names. So the path becomes D:\DOCUME~1\Alex\LOCALS~1\Temp …no spaces there, which is why most users don’t experience this problem. A user would have to manually change their temp dir path to get spaces in it… or would they? Another (this time not-so-happy) accident: you can disable 8.3 file name creation. There is, in fact, a registry key that will allow you to do this (intuitively named NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation, found in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem). Set this value to 1, and 8.3 filename creation will be disabled. If a user logs on to a box where this setting is in effect, the userprofile for that user will include TMP/TEMP variables that look like this: D:\DOCUME~1\Alex\Local Settings\Temp. Uh-oh… Forestprep and ADC install fail. This registry setting is actually specified in many of the security templates found up on TechNet. The workaround is to remove the spaces in your temp dir path variables (SET TEMP=D:\SOMETHING\WITHOUT\SPACES; SET TMP=D:\SOMETHING\WITHOUT\SPACES), then run Forestprep or ADC install, then set your variables back the way you had them. We'll have a KB article about this created in the next few weeks. Alex MacLeod
Copilot Agent inside SharePoint site is not able to answer questions regarding the custom columns
I have a SharePoint online document library named Test. and it has those 3 custom columns inside a custom content type:- now using a username named Mohannad , i uploaded 2 documents, and for one document i defined a user named "Test User" as the "MC / Project Lead (Use)", as follow:- but when i asked the agent this question, about who is the Project Lead , i did not get the "Test User", instead i get the user Mohanand:- also when i ask the agent about the project team, i got this answer:- so how i can modify this behavior? Second question. when Copilot said that the document is authored by Mohannd, how it get the Author info? based on the created by field inside SharePoint? and can we create a custom column , so the copilot reads the author from it instead of relying on any built-in field?
Copilot Chat: Missing Web/Work Toggle Bar – How to Enable It?
Hello I have an Office 365 Business Standard license and purchased a Copilot 365 license. I can access all Copilot applications, but in Copilot Chat, I don’t have access to the Web/Work toggle bar. How can I make this bar appear (not working from edge, ms365copilot.com or windows app)? Is there a specific configuration required to enable the Web/Work toggle? (I am the admin of my tenant and have followed the guides, but I haven't found a solution to my issue.) Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Best regards,Data Extraction and Manipulation
Right. So I have been trying to achieve the following; Extract Key Data from a structured PDF > Push this Key Data into a Word/Excel document I can get parts of this process to work. Copilot seems pretty good at extracting data from PDFs and Excel files etc, it will show me the correct data in the chat. BUT when I ask it to push this into a pre-existing word template it just doesnt work. The best result I had was when Copilot added the Key Data to the end of the Word doc. Not what I wanted but not a million miles off. Its also fine with putting this into a new word document. So it feels like Copilot has all the functionaility required but just wont combine this with using a pre-existing word/excel template. I even tried content control boxes. For some context, this sort of thing (basically copying pasting data from one doc to another) is incredibly time consuming and there is a LOT of this in my industry. Hoping that there is a way to achieve this, even if it means multiple steps etc! 🙃
Copilot Edge Icon in Looping
Hi All, I have configured two tenants for Copilot EDR. I can open copilot via edge icon (upper right) then log in with an Azure User with no issues, for tenant 01, and the shield icon for EDR is there as expected. For tenant 02, when I try to log in the copilot using edge icon, it enters in a loooping, I log then return to the same page asking for login, I log again, return to same page again, etc. For this same tenant, we have no issues when using copilot.cloud.microsoft, it only happens if we try the edge icon. Any tips? Thanks in advance
Copilot for Outlook not working on our company email-adress?
Hi, We have Microsoft 365 Business subscription, and i have downloaded Copilot in Outlook. But I still dont get access to making it draft emails. I have read several places that it only works with outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com, eller msn.com. But is this accurate when we have a Business-account? Or is it because we dont subscribe for Copilot Pro?Sharepoint Agent not talking in Teams chat
Hello, I created an agent in one of our Sharepoint Site : The agent works fine inside Sharepoint, but when I add it to a Teams group chat, whether the chat members all have access to the Sharepoint content and a Copilot licence or not, the agent doesn't "talk". It doen't even introduce itself : I tried to follow many tutorials/documentation, such as https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-an-agent-from-sharepoint-in-teams-6dcbf7b5-8c13-44e5-a68a-dbd71fb76ad3, but found nothing on this issue. Is there something I'm not doing right? Thanks. Regards, J.L.
Microsoft copilot stops while giving a response.
Why is this happening? Is there a solution for this? It just stops while giving response. And it has happened several times. And you can't even give prompt to continue from there. You should restart it. Does anyone have a solution for this? and I have restarted and reinstalled it 1000 times.
How can I permanently remove the irritating copilot icon from my word document
How do I get rid of this from the documents I create? I have copilot switched off in preferences and I have it deleted from my menu bar and yet, I just can't get rid of this icon/text? How do I just get a normal word document? I noticed that my subscription sneakily went up to £105 per year from £80 per year and the only way to revert back to my old subscription was to cancel it. So, I don't have copilot switched on, nor am I or will I pay for it but the copilot prompt just won't disappear. Any ideas would be welcome... thanks
