Google Postmaster Tools, No Data to Display Message - google-postmaster

I added my domain to Postmaster Tools and have my domain verified.
Unfortunately when I tried to check the data (it is already 3 days until today), it showed No data to display at this time. Please come back later message.
Actually SPF & DKIM are already set up correctly (below is my Check MX result).
Anybody know how to solve this issue?

As far as I’m aware, you need to have a minimum level of activity (of the order of several hundred messages) before it will show up. I’m not sure why, but it may be to limit the ability to identify individuals. My own very active accounts still get some of these “no data” days.
Also bear in mind that google postmaster tools is a buggy mess that hardly works at the best of times, for example a spam rating of “bad” will often coincide with a spam reporting rate of zero. It’s also about the only google service that has no support channel whatsoever.

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Azure Action Group email notifications - fail, not reliable

This is part public awareness and part actual question for better workarounds.
Overall, we have recently discovered (the hard way) that emailing via an Azure Action Group is unreliable and occasionally fails. Basically, sometimes their IPs get blacklisted for various reasons (very common). They have nothing in place to alert those relying on an email notification that it failed, even though they have all the information they need to do so (they showed me a screenshot showing the SMTP failure due to the IP blacklisting from their log). The Azure portal will still show "fired". And, so, it just fails silently in the background with no indication to the user it was never sent. According to one of the technical Azure reps we have discussed this with:
The way of identifying a failure is to evaluate any kind of rejection message received from the target server but those are not guaranteed and not generated in all scenarios. Take into account that email actions are provided free of charge and performing post-send operations to try and verify delivery would consume additional computing that would make providing this notification mechanism free of charge less desirable
I know that many rely on these for production notifications of various scenarios. You should not rely on this going forward, or at least have a backup in place (e.g. SMS, web-hook, etc).
I would like to know if anyone has experienced this as well and, if so, what is the better, more reliable method to use.
Thanks in advance!

MDM Terms of Use endpoint is not correctly configured

I have three laptops and one desktop joined to Active Directory hosted on Azure. I am trying to join a new workstation to Azure AD using the email address of a person who has a laptop connected to Azure.
Here are my steps.
Connect to Work or School.
Connect.
Join this device to Azure Active Directory.
Enter user's email address and password.
I receive the following error when trying:
"Looks like the MDM Terms of Use endpoint is not correctly configured."
I've checked whether "Users may join devices to Azure AD" is set to ALL. (It is.)
The number of devices per user is set to 20.
Where do I go the portal to resolve the issue?
I know that this is an old question but I'm hoping it can help others avoid hours or days trying to figure out. Even Microsoft couldn't figure this one out which is sad. Their documentation actually even contradicts the solution.
During your domain setup, there are two CNAME records that you are instructed to create: EnterpriseEnrollment and EnterpriseRegistration. What they don't tell you is that this is only used if you are using the free MDM for Office 365 solution. If you are using, or switch to a license of Active Directory Premium and/or Intune, you MUST remove these CNAME records in order to allow your devices to register. It worked for me instantly upon removing the records on Cloudflare, though there may be a delay depending on who you use for DNS management.
I hope this helps anyone encountering this issue. Microsoft really needs to work on the detail of their error messages.
I see you got a couple answers on Reddit - but here goes,
Firstly, make sure you have one of the more advanced AAD services (such as P2) not the free one which has almost nothing whatsoever to do with AD.
AAD seems to "propagate" slowly ala Y2K Domains. I get this error often and there might be more than 1 root cause (thanks to the cryptic message in the first place).
Similar symptoms:
MDM TOU error when activating brand-new PC
Vague error regarding connectivity when setting PIN
"Successfully" connecting to work but no listing in Intune
For all of the above, I find simply waiting about 24 hours before trying again often helps as the newly created user/device/passport/hello propagates through Microsofts complex cloud ID servers.
I have had it fail with your message and then retry 30-seconds later and it works (forever from then-on) and I have had devices which "join the workplace successfully" but not show up in Intune/AAD for almost 48 hours!

Suspicious Data in Website Contact form

I have an IIS hosted website that is getting lots of suspicious data coming in from the contact form. What I mean by suspicious is that there are people whose names and address and phone numbers are all valid, but when my company contacts them they have never heard of us. We attempted to use a CAPTCHA to help prevent this, but it merely slowed it down. We would filter out the IP addresses, but it is never using the same IP twice and it is not using it in ANY pattern we can recognize. I am at a loss here as to what to do to keep them from giving us bad data. The problem, also, is that I am not entirely sure it is a Bot since they are coming in at a pace that COULD be a few people doing one right after the other, though this seems unlikely since they come in ALL the time. Does anyone have any suggestions on, if it IS a bot, keeping it form submitting the form or identifying it after the form has been submitted? Also, is there any way to tell for sure that it IS a bot?
Why do people have to enter data? Is it to download something? People will always enter any false data if it's to get at something they feel doesn't need their personal info. 'Any info' is not the same as 'accurate info'.
Your problem is not bots, but perhaps imposing your want for unwanted info.
Also, depending on the captcha, some are easier to bypass than others, but why would people want to bypass it if they gain nothing (such as a link on your site) in return?

Getting Into The Nitty-Gritty of Gmail Meter

Backstory: I work at a place where we use Gmail for our business email system. We sell things online, provide a phone number, chat, and email for customer service. We can pull statistics from our phone and chat records, but not email.
This is where Gmail Meter comes into play. We installed it hoping to gain more insight into the statistics of our emails. We did, but some of the numbers seem to be off.
Can anyone explain the backend workings of GMeter a bit in hopes to explain why our numbers appear off?
Also, I looked in the gmail admin panel and the Reports tab only appears to give a high level overview of all accounts, not specific ones, such as Total Mail Usage, User Activity, Total Email Accounts, and Usage.
I'm Ryan from the Gmail Meter team. We understand there are some bugs right now, so not everyone's data is being analyzed properly. It seems some parameters are set up for a couple days' worth, instead of a weeks' worth, of counting.
Feel free to shoot me an email and I'll send you an update when we get it fixed.
Thanks for bringing this to attention!
ryan#shuttlecloud.com

How to determine nationality based on IP address?

How can I tell the nationality of a user of my web site based on client ip?
Edit: Like commented, this question have been answered before:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/283016/know-a-good-ip-address-geolocation-service
use the GeoIP databse. there is a free one. there are also a lot of GeoIP webServices you can use.
If you're thinking localization, let the user choose the correct language instead of doing it automatically -- or at least provide an easy way for them to change it and make it sticky via cookies. You can do ok most of the time at guessing using GeoIP, but sometimes you'll get it really wrong. Google sometimes sends my wife to the German version of their web site even though we're in the middle of the US. Using anonymization services (like TOR) will also likely result in guessing errors. Having the option to choose and keeping the choice on the computer will make it a better experience for your users.
Besides the already mentioned GeoIP database, you could also use IP2LOCATION service. It's a paid one but it will also work.
Keep in mind that all these services will give you an estimate of the location but not a very accurate geographic position. I read a networking paper once stating that this is an impossible task to accomplish (give an accurate position of an IP address).

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