Office 365 DNS (or; Nightmares with Dreamhost)

First things first, this is NOT a failing with Dreamhost, it is merely an issue with poor/outdated documentation. I will attempt to resolve that shortcoming via this post.

When you sign up to Office 365 you are able to use your own domain for user authentication for the various services on offer.

As I am quite happy with my current site hosting, DNS, and mail and calendaring services, there was only a handful of options left that may be of some use.

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Logging your connectivity

I had a message this morning from a friend who was having intermittent disconnection issues on their internet. The network itself was fine and, when using another provider, that too was working so it came down to evidence gathering to support the case to the ISP to investigate.

As a quick throw together, we came up with the following using wget and a batch file to repeat the command every x minutes.

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