When running an application that you recently downloaded from the internet (even some from Microsoft), you may come across the error as seen above, "Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor". If you click on the Details button, it'll open a text file that probably has the lines "Deployment and application do not have [...]
If you're using Azure Active Directory, there might be a time where you'll need to get a count of all the user accounts in your environment. You can use the Powershell commands below to get a listing and get counts for your Directory Synced and Cloud-Only Azure AD users. Open Powershell Run Connect-AzureAD and sign [...]
With an on-premises Exchange environment, you would connect using the Exchange Shell which you would need installed on the server or workstation. If you're new to Exchange Online, things are a little different. Instead, you use the regular Windows Powershell, create a Remote Powershell Session, then run your commands. Open Powershell Type $UserCredential = Get-Credential [...]
While Microsoft is working on adding the option to Include Office 365 Group Calendar in Teams, you can use this as a workaround which will basically add a web link to the group calendar as a tab in Microsoft Teams. NOTE: If your team group is not visible in Outlook, it is probably because the [...]
Last year, Microsoft made a change in Office 365 that hides Office 365 Groups that were created in Teams from Outlook. There are a couple of options to get around this, but those will depend on if you're creating a new Team, or if you're trying to view an old Team that was created after [...]
As a best practice, it is sometimes recommended that the Windows Pagefile be cleared at every shutdown or reboot. Please note that this could add a significant delay to your shutdown or reboot times as Windows basically rewrites the Pagefile with 0's to clear it. You can either set a registry value to make a [...]
As a part of a Microsoft Azure account, you can create a storage account and an Azure File Share that you can map to a drive in Windows 10 using the industry-standard SMB protocol. If you have an operating system newer than Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, it will use SMB 3.0. This includes [...]
Microsoft has been including its Windows Defender antivirus software in Windows 10, and now they're also automatically including it and enabling it in Windows Server 2016. While this is welcomed by some organizations that may not have another antivirus solution, running multiple antivirus applications has been known to cause issues for a long time and [...]
As a Mac user, using Time Machine to create backups of your Mac is usually a good idea. You can either attach a large enough USB drive to use as a backup drive, or you can use a network file share as your backup drive. Sometimes your backups can take a painfully long time to [...]
Allowing a Microsoft Teams owner or member to invite a guest or external user to Teams has been available for almost a year. While Microsoft provides some documentation on how to set this up, there's still some issues out there and multiple places to look depending on your setup. In order to get this fully [...]
