by Rocky Beaven | Sep 16, 2021 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell, Software
Someone was struggling to log in to Teams via a web browser. After doing a sanity check that they did indeed have a Teams licence in the 365 portal, and they had tried running it in an InPrivate/Incognito window (just in case), further investigation showed that the...
by Rocky Beaven | Sep 13, 2021 | Miscellaneous, Software
Needed a remote user to be able to access a server (with admin rights) but nothing else on the LAN. Without getting into detail, the option for using VLANs (tagged or otherwise) wasn’t available, so needed a simple solution. Using the existing Draytek router I...
by Rocky Beaven | Aug 16, 2021 | Microsoft 365, Office
By default when you install Office (365 or 201x) it joins the ‘monthly’ update channel where you will receive all updates, both security and feature, as soon as they are released by Microsoft. Generally having the security updates applied immediately is a...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 24, 2021 | Miscellaneous, Server 201x
We added a larger virtual disk to a Hyper-V file server and copied over a shared folder to the new location. The folder also had a number of subfolders that were shared independently. The quick way to move the share permissions etc is via the registry (i.e. without...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 12, 2021 | Microsoft KB, Patching/Security, Server 201x
A Server 2016 VM was stuck at 0% attempting to download updates. Neither a manual restart of the Windows Update service, nor a server reboot, rectified the problem. Even tried to manually download the latest servicing stack update and cumulative update from the...
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