Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Has this ever happened to you? You're using Teams like normal and one day it doesn't start. No reason, just the usual Teams error that tells you nothing. You try the usual workarounds (Mark Vale's write-up on cleaning the Teams Cache is invaluable) but nothing helps. So back to that error that doesn't tell you anything. Teams being helpful Or maybe it does tell you something. The error code in the bottom left corner: CAA70007.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
IntroductionOne of the new features in Windows 10 1803 is the ability for "local Active Directory" Domain joined workstations to allow users to reset their password from the login screen. This was introduced for Azure Active Directory joined systems in Windows 10 1709. In this post I’m quickly going to run through what you need to do in order to configure this for your domain. I’m making the following assumptions:
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
One of the things I’m working on at the moment is moving the remainder of our Exchange organisation over to Office 365 / Exchange Online. We moved the bulk of our accounts some time ago; students here have been on Office 365 Exchange email for a few years, but staff and ‘role’ email accounts have been held on local Exchange servers until this month. The things I’ve seen people worry about on these migrations have actually been the least of my worries.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
At work I tend to turn up to meetings with a MacBook Pro. This surprises a few people who know me as a former Microsoft MVP, a Windows Server/Infrastructure person and the manager of a IT system that is predominantly Windows based. The MacBook Pro isn’t ideal; it’s a 15" 2010 model and it is starting to be a problem. Even with a SSD installed, it’s starting to get slow and cranky when it comes to waking up.