Distribution groups are meant to be distributing messages to their members. But for whatever reason, if you don’t want anyone but only certain people to be able to send emails to those groups, here is something to try. For regular Microsoft 365 groups, you can go to the Exchange dashboard, open the group, switch to the Settings tab and click […]
I came across this post in my LinkedIn feed trying to use ChatGPT to explain the difference between Kubernetes and Docker to a 15-year-old with the example of going on a camping trip. Sure! Imagine you’re going on a camping trip and you need to pack some things in a bag. Docker is like the bag – it’s a tool […]
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 […]