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. […]
After following setting up WSUS for Windows 10 20H2 upgrade, the workstation updates actually failed with an error code 0xc1900223. The error code reveals nothing. Nothing useful in the event viewer either. But the log from WSUS does. (Unable to Find Resource ) ReportingEvent. Client 181: Parameters: Feature update to Windows 10 (consumer editions), version 20H2, en-us x64 More specifically, […]
To use PowerShell to manage Microsoft 365 services, you need to initiate a connection to Azure Active Directory first and then run the cmdlets it provides. Connect-MsolService It prompts a normal Microsoft login screen for you to sign in. When you are using PowerShell window, one connection should last until you close the window. But if you are using PowerShell […]
If you already have accounts set up in Microsoft 365 tenant before you synchronized between on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft 365’s Azure AD, you may want to convert these accounts to the synced ones, rather than leaving them as the cloud users. Assume you already have your on-premises Active Directory cleaned up and prepared for Azure AD Connect, here are […]
Microsoft 365 uses an Azure Active Directory to store and manage user credentials for authentication and permissions to access cloud-based resources. If you also have an on-premises Active Directory, you should sync them up for having central account management. The process of setting it up isn’t hard but it’s not easy and straightforward either. Here is a quick guide on […]
The simplest way to install Office 365 apps on a computer is to run the setup.exe file downloaded from Microsoft and wait until it’s finished. Depend on your internet speed, it could take a while to finish. It’s definitely not the right way when you need to deploy the apps on hundreds of computers. If you are using a package […]
Gmail has a feature that lets you use Gmail to send emails from your other email addresses. For example, you own another email address like [email protected] and you want to send an email from that address right from your personal Gmail account. It typically works like this: Email gets automatically forwarded from [email protected] to your Gmail account. When you reply […]