When someone leaves the company with a bunch of data left behind in their OneDrive account, the easiest way to access this data without going through the whole sharing exercise is probably to grant others administrator rights to this OneDrive account. Heading over to the SharePoint admin center and signing in with a Global Admin account. Click the More features […]
If you need to deploy an Edge extension within an AD-powered network, you definitely want to do it via Group Policy to automate the process. But before you go ahead and do that, you will have to download and install the Microsoft Edge administrative template to your AD first. First, download the policy template files here. There are two files […]
I have a few very large obsolete VM files that I need to get off from the Host to save storage spaces for other things. Downloading the files directly from vCenter doesn’t seem to work because, based on the download rate, which is at 15MBps at best, it would take days to transfer my files. Since I am using Windows, […]
I use a self-host Spiceworks Helpdesk Server daily to manage all my support tickets. Email plays a big role to automates most of the steps during the process, from automatically generating tickets to sending notifications to support staff, to replying to a ticket with comments and commands that categorize, assign, or close the tickets. And that’s why it’s a big […]
The official downloaded version of Windows 10/11 ISO has an install.esd file that includes all Windows editions but MDT needs a more specific edition of install.wim copy to work with. So, here are the steps to prepare a copy of the Windows image for MDT deployment. 1. Download Windows 10/11 ISO image Download and run the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to […]
Windows 10 20H2 has finally reached its end. So it was time to prepare the new image for 21H2 for the MDT deployment. I followed the instruction to get the right image.wim file up and uploaded to MDT share, then created a new Task Sequence that will take the new image for deployment. But when I put it into the […]
I never used Active Directory’s Account Log On To feature to limit computer access for certain user accounts before. So when I had to do it the other day, I thought I can just simply put the computer name in the Log On To computer list for that user account and call it a day. Guess I was wrong. I […]
I got a warning email from Microsoft stating that my organization is out of SharePoint Online storage. I was surprised at first, and even thought it was spam. But turns out, that running out of space on SharePoint Online is a thing. To view the total and available free storage space currently for your organization, go to Active sites in […]