New Teams is a UWP (Universal Windows Platform) app and that presents its own challenges when it comes to system-wide mass installs. If you download the MSIX directly and install it, it actually tricks you into thinking it’s installed for all users but in reality, it is only installed for the user that downloaded and…
There are various reasons why you may need to delete a Microsoft 365 tenant. The most common one I run into is after a corporate merger or acquisition. In this post, I will show step-by-step how to delete a Microsoft 365 tenant. Prerequisites Completing all of those perquisites will take time and sometimes things are…
Controlling who can and can’t create Microsoft 365 groups can be a very powerful tool. In this post, I will detail step-by-step how to prevent users from creating Microsoft 365 groups unless they are members of a specific security group. Prerequisites The Process The beginning of the script should look something like this.
I’m a fan of using Microsoft Windows Server Core for as many things as possible when it makes sense. In this post, I’ll cover step-by-step how to install VMware Tools on Windows Server Core via the GUI and PowerShell. The GUI Way Sometimes the VMware tools install screen hides behind the command line window.
Providing your users with a centralized and user-friendly way to report phishing, junk, and non-junk emails is a great quality-of-life improvement for everyone. In this post, I’ll cover step-by-step how to deploy the Microsoft Report Message add-in for Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft 365.
Backups are a good thing to have. Within Microsoft Configuration Manager you can set up a backup maintenance task, but what if you need to run a backup on demand how do you do that? Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) has had a few names the longest-standing name was SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) it also…
A few years ago I wrote a post about how to Swap Office 365 Licenses. Microsoft has deprecated the cmdlets that were used in that post specifically Set-MsolUserLicense and has replaced them with Microsoft Graph cmdlets specifically Set-MgUserLicense. In this post, I will show step-by-step how to swap Microsoft 365 licenses using Microsoft Graph and…
By default, Windows servers display lots of details when you logon to them and rarely leave you wondering what it’s doing. A while back I ran into an issue that was causing 15 minute login times when a user would log in to the computer for the first time. This was particularly a problem with…
Microsoft has been warning about the deprecation of the MS Online and Azure AD PowerShell cmdlets for a while now; the end date is fast approaching, and some of the commands have stopped working. You can read the Microsoft post about the deprecation here. Microsoft Graph is becoming a day-to-day reality and a tool we’ll…
A while back I saw someone’s computer that had a company logo in the Windows taskbar; it looked super slick. I wanted to duplicate the same thing in my setup. The documentation on what causes a company logo to show up in the search box in the Windows taskbar and the Windows start menu is…
