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 […]
Time to upgrade your monitor. Is it? When you are getting older, your eyes kind can’t keep up with all those tiny words on a very high-density monitor. For me, a 1080p type works pretty well in most of the cases. According to the DPI Calculator, 100 or so PPI seems to fit me well. But guess what, the world […]
Assume you have an Azure Storage account in place where you can create your own cloud spaces like blobs, file shares, etc., here is a way for you to map the file shares in your Azure Storage account as a network drive on Windows. Note that this is not to map the storage blobs but only File Shares. You will […]