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 [...]
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 [...]
In the screenshot above, you can see when a site owner or member tries to share a document, the "Anyone with the link" option is greyed out and if you can see from the tooltip the error says "Your organization is preventing you from selecting this option". The first places to check as an administrator [...]
Microsoft's January 2019 Patch Tuesday has just passed and there have been a few issues with this round. If you still have Windows 7 in your environment, there have been a number of reports that KB971033 is causing those machines to display a "Not Genuine 0xc004f200" error when they were activated using a KMS volume [...]
If you're having an issue getting your camera or microphone working in certain apps after upgrading your Mac to macOS Mojave, it could be related to some of the new security and privacy features. In previous macOS versions, any application could gain control over these devices with or without you knowing. As a part of [...]
If you're running Microsoft Exchange 2010, you might run into an issue where your users can't expand their public folders and they'll receive the message "Cannot expand the folder. The set of folders cannot be opened. Microsoft Exchange is not available. Either there are network problems or the Exchange is down for maintenance." How To [...]
While running a Windows Server 2016 Server or Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Remote Desktop Licensing role, you may receive this notification popup in the lower right corner saying "Remote Desktop Licensing Mode is not configured. Remote Desktop Services will stop working in XX days. On the RD Connection Broker server, use Server Manager [...]
Microsoft released a few .NET patches in September 2018 that patch for CVE-2018-8421 which is a .NET Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Some people have reported that after installing the patches (mainly KB4457916 and KB4457035), their out-of-the-box Workflows fail to execute and the logs will show an error similar to this: 09/13/2018 01:59:07.57 w3wp.exe (0x1868) [...]
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac at its Ignite 2018 conference. There's been some confusion online about the differences between Office 365 and Office 2019. Microsoft basically has two models for Office, the cloud-based Office 365 subscription that stays up-to-date with current releases and features, and the [...]
