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 […]
If you are using VMware’s vCenter to manage your virtualization environment, the chances that you encounter this famous 503 Service Unavailable message are pretty high. 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x00007fd8c00155b0] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) Most of the time, a restart would get you going again. But today, a simple restart won’t cut […]
Documentation is no fun but a must-to-do in almost every aspect of the work and has to be done constantly and consistently. It’s basically not how you do it, rather, a matter of doing it, in a good structure. Over time, I have been using OneNote as my main note-taking and documentation tool. But lately, I am obsessed with Wiki-based […]
r/sysadmin is one of my favorite places to hang out, not only to keep up with what’s happening out there in the industry but also to learn a lot of perspectives outside or inside of the IT world, such as the types or levels of burnout like this, along with many awesome comments by my IT fellows. === Common and […]
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. […]