Hello, for the last 10 years, I have been writing on and of about my experiences on a personal site (like this one) and in that time, I have moved from platform to platform in search of the one that really fitted my needs. I must admit, the research involved and the work to getting it all up and running has been most …

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I have been working with the new Microsoft Edge for a few months now. This browser is (just like Chrome) based on chromium and offers quite some features. You can thus compare it to google chrome with the difference that Microsoft and Google each have their own approach to quite some elements. Microsoft has published a …

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Have you ever had to to find out it there was someone connected to a given server (either directly or either through a remote connection)? I had it yesterday and it created the idea that I should be able to check this regularly (or it should be automated) to find a moment where the server can be restarted when no one …

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Microsoft added a cool feature in exchange online (office365) where they allow you to automatically add an "online meeting" to any new meeting that you organize. This is a huge improvement as it solves the issue that you send out a meeting to some people and then forget to add the option to join the meeting digitally. …

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Apparently (& in some cases), screen sharing in Microsoft Teams/Skype4Business is not working as it should when you need to control your counterparts pc and in that case, you can resort to an alternative called "Windows remote assistant" (MSRA) which is installed by default on all windows machines... you can start it …

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If you are as keen on (keyboard) shortcuts as I am, then, you will really appreciate this one! Teams offers a bunch of them, but they are not really visible... To solve this, you can type alt + / and a nice cheat sheet will appear! Enjoy!

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Everything that we know is changing drastically these days... It is a given that needs no introduction. This drastic change has been increasingly defining how we have to live and work these last few weeks and/or months... Things that were considered as a default (like commuting everyday back and forth to work, …

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From time to time you want to find out who has local admin permissions in your domain... As it is typically a bad practice to give too much permissions, you really want to be able to find out easily. In that context, I created a small PowerShell script that allows me to retrieve this info relatively easy... It produces …

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For ages, I've been searching the internet for beautiful pictures that can be used freely in presentations, blogposts, websites, etc in order to make the visualizations in them more attractable and to make them more interesting. It was always very hard to find out whether or not the image I found was copyrighted and …

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For those what it means to install RabbitMQ for local development, it typically means that you have to go through the pain of installing erlang and RabbitMQ , only to discover that something is wrong with your setup. (To given an example: the RabbitMQ management plugin is not installed by default, requiring you to do …

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From time to time it happens that you install a sql server (or SQL express) and that you forget to assign local admin permissions. When this happens, you can choose to do a reinstallation... or you can try to assign the permissions after all through a backdoor. I chose the latter! Open a cmd prompt (as admin) {% …

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I must admit, it was hidden very well... but apparently there is an emoticon picker that is available in windows. It allows you choose from a wide range of emoticons and lets you insert those in the text in an application that you are working in... You might it is stupid, but I like it. I tend to forget the key combo's …

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From time to time, it happens that you get/buy a new computer and that you have to set up everything from scratch. All your software gets installed either by hand or by some sort of automated process (pushed to you by your organization or something that has been set up by you) and you get to do your work pretty fast …

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For some time, I've been struggling with this, but we are using Microsoft Office365 with shared (free) mailboxes and from time to time, someone wants to have a calendar of such a shared mailbox on his iOS device. The idea of such shared mailboxes (and why they are free) is that they do not represent real users, but …

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