List Drive Volumes
Open Powershell
Get-volume
Columns Drive letter, FriendlyName (what it is named), File System Type, Drive Type (fixed, removable,CD-Rom), Health Status, Operational Status, Size remaining, Size...
Disable Focused Inbox
In OWA/outlook.com
Click on the cog wheel > Display settings > Focused Inbox.
In Outlook Desktop app
View tab > click on Focused inbox...
Office 365 – Creating a shared Mailbox & Change Send as and Full access
Create a shared mailbox and change full access and send as permissions:
Access Exchange admin centre and Go to Recipients, then shared and click on the + icon
Enter the require display name and email address
To add users (this would be both send as and full access, if some users only need full access skip this step) click on the + unders users, search for the use or select them from the list and either click add or double click on the user and click on OK
If you need to add users that only have full access or make changes to existing permissions on shared mailbox, double click on the mailbox
In the mailbox settings go to mailbox delegation and click the + under the required permission "full access" and "send as"
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Disabling Windows Hello for business
Disabling Windows Hello for business:
I use Office 365 I wanted to test out the AD Connect. Which allows me to join the pc's the azure domain and login with AD accounts setup on the DC, this allows me to keep existing permission on Server and I do not need to join it to Azure AD.
What I found was that when logging in it prompted to setup a pin, to get pass this follow the steps below:
Enter in Login credentials
click on setup PIN, then click on the X, it will give an error message, click on Skip for now
open Group Policy gpedit.msc
Got to "Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Hello for Business" under both User configuration and Computer configuration, double click on Use Windows Hello for Business and select Disabled
Log off and back in to confirm it is working
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Enabling Nested Virtualization
A Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
A Hyper-V VM running Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
A Hyper-V VM with configuration version 8.0 or greater.
An Intel processor with VT-x and EPT technology.
Shutdown VM
Open Powershell as admin and run this command on Hyper-V host "Set-VMProcessor -VMName <VMName> -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true
When using Nested Virtualization you can not use dynamic memory. Set to VM to Static memory if it isn't already
Start VM
Install Hyper V role
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/nested-virtualization
Script that will prompt you to enter name of VM
$Server = Read-Host -Prompt 'Input your server name'
Set-VMProcessor -VMName $Server -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true...
Accessing Memory Diagnostics results
Start Menu
Type "Event Viewer" and press the Enter key
The Event Viewer will open. In the left pane of the window, disclose Windows Logs and select System
Widen the window to show the contents of the Middle pane
Choose menu item Action -> Filter Current Log.
Set Filter "Event sources:" to "MemoryDiagnostics-Results" and press the Enter key to apply it and/or simply click the OK button to close the Filter Current Log window.
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Issue with replication on domain controller
While installing some software that links into AD it mentioned check domain topology is healthy, I opens site and services and forced replication, however it gave the RPC server is unavailable
The cause was a dns issue on the primary dc, it was set to my routers ip, I also noticed for some reason if I pinged the FQDN of the other dc it gave an external ip, which was strange, I updated dns to loopback and the other dc and sync was able to complete...
Remove duplicate values in Excel column
Select the range of cells, or make sure that the active cell is in a table.
On the Data tab, in the Data Tools group, click Remove Duplicates.
Do one or more of the following:
Under Columns, select one or more columns.
To quickly select all columns, click Select All.
To quickly clear all columns, click Unselect All.
Click OK
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Enabling the new OneDrive Sync Client for Office 365 SharePoint
Enabling the new OneDrive Sync Client for Office 365 SharePoint:
While syncing my library's to another computer I found it was opening Onedrive for business instead of Onedrive app.
I had this on my main pc aswell, however I logged in to it on another account and I could setup the sync.
Today I have found that a setting needs to be changed in the tenancy.
Login to the admin portal > under admin centers select Sharepoint > Settings > Sync client for sharepoint change to start the new client...
Task Schedule Save location
Easy way to copy task sequence from computer to another go to
%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks
Copy the task you want from Computer A to a usb stick or over the network
(you cannot paste the task directly into the tasks location as they are reference in the registry [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache] )
On the other computer open task scheduler and click on import and go to the location the task is stored
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