For years and years, we all have been copying an pasting stuff on our PC. Chances are real that you typically had to copy specific things over and over again and that this action cost you a lot of time. The so called "problem" was that there could be only one item stored in the clipboard and each time …

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This weeks post is one with a lot less text! I really dislike having to click around in the UI of an OS/application to get things done and I love it whenever that I can take a shortcut to shave off a few seconds of the time that I would need otherwise! It happens regularly that I see other people working and see them …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A few years ago, Microsoft announced that you could upgrade your (official) windows 7 (or 8) installation to windows 10 and that this could be done for free! The reasons for this move are outside of this post, but the idea is that this offer was only limited in time and the free upgrade supposedly ended in July of …

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