I have a Azure AD Synced group that I don’t want people to see from the address book. Since it’s a synced account I can’t do much in Office 365 console once it’s synced. So how can I do that? Turns out, it’s pretty easy and straightforward. Open Active Directory Users and Computers on your computer, make sure Advanced Features […]
I have Ricoh network printers shared from Windows 2012 R2 Server on Windows 10 computers. All went well until recently some of them are shown as Printer Model Number instead. They are still working fine and are shown properly when printing in applications like Microsoft Word. It’s just annoying. On top of that, on some of the computers, I get […]
In a nutshell, MyAnalytics is an Outlook add-in that helps you find opportunities to build better habits and get back in control of your time. It uses everyday data from Microsoft 365 to give you insights into how you spend your time. If you wonder why all of sudden you are getting emails from Microsoft titled as MyAnalytics, it’s most […]
Normally, sharing a calendar with others doesn’t provide them the privilege to view the private appointments you put in your calendar. But if you do, you will also need to give the others the delegates access. preferably with automatically send a message unchecked so the delegates don’t get all the unnecessary notifications. You can also accomplish the same with PowerShell, […]
I have a bunch of group policy settings that need to be enforced on a lot of new Office 365 installations. I excitedly downloaded the Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) package, uploaded them to the Active Directory’s PolicyDefinitions folder, and opened up Group Policy Management, put in all the policies I want to push out. Guess what? Out of the 6 […]
Even though Windows 10 has made taking screenshots so much easier, using PowerShell for the same task still gives a lot of good use. But PowerShell doesn’t have the capability of taking screenshots out of the box. You will need to leverage .NET for a few things. Here is a good example of taking a full window screenshot using PowerShell. […]
After following setting up WSUS for Windows 10 20H2 upgrade, the workstation updates actually failed with an error code 0xc1900223. The error code reveals nothing. Nothing useful in the event viewer either. But the log from WSUS does. (Unable to Find Resource ) ReportingEvent. Client 181: Parameters: Feature update to Windows 10 (consumer editions), version 20H2, en-us x64 More specifically, […]
To use PowerShell to manage Microsoft 365 services, you need to initiate a connection to Azure Active Directory first and then run the cmdlets it provides. Connect-MsolService It prompts a normal Microsoft login screen for you to sign in. When you are using PowerShell window, one connection should last until you close the window. But if you are using PowerShell […]