Yesterday I did something I haven't done for a few (4-5) years: I completed an "official" exam! (In this case it was a Microsoft exam) What/Why I started studying for the exam in December and because of work (and life) it took a bit longer than expected. (Initially, I was really optimistic and my thought was that I …

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Important: This is mostly for the Belgians among you A few weeks ago, I was talking to a colleague via Teams and at some point he was interrupted by a phone call. He took the call (I told him that I would wait as it seemed "to do something with him") and I heard him speak to the person that called him. It was a really …

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Every so now and then, you might have to set up meetings with people from somewhere else on our little planet. It is already complex most of the times if you have to do this within a single time zone, but it gets even more complex when you have step outside one time zone. In the beginning, I counted the difference to …

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If you are like me and have always a huge amount of tabs open in your active browser(s), then you might like the introduction of sleepy tabs in Microsoft Edge (the new one based on Chromium)! It was introduced a few weeks ago, but at the time I only managed to take a screenshot of it (the introduction) back then... The …

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Azure Static Web Apps and what you can do with them . Since I started using the service, I have been very happy with what it has to offer and in that is why I have decided to also start using it for other things than my personal blog. One thing that you can use it for is an easy to use, …

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Do you know the feeling when you have a lot of VS Code editors open, each pointing to its own folder, where you need to do a lot of context switching? There are several ways to find the correct VSCode window: Alt-Tab Hovering over the VS code icon in the windows taskbar ... In both cases, you have to 'hope' that you …

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Last summer I had a situation where I needed to migrate files away from a server that was at the end of it's life. The raid controller was about to give up and time was of the essence. As I had only given myself one night for the migration from the old system to the new, I wanted to make sure that I could succeed. As I …

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I have always loved the images that are shown on the windows lock screen! They show you places that you most likely have never heard of and point you in the right direction if you want to find out more. Especially in times like these where COVID-19 determines a lot what we can and cannot do, this offers a view on the …

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Chances are real that you have been working from home for a while now and that (like it is the case with me) your days are filled with online meetings. Those meetings are typically planned back to back, leaving no room for a little break. Those little breaks were typically inherent to switches between meeting rooms or …

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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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