Spybot has a tool just for blocking telemetry stuff called Anti Beacon. I just set it it "full" and leave it be. Portable version available too.

https://download.spybot.info/AntiBeacon/SpybotAntiBeacon-3.1-setup.exe

@JaredBusch said in Exchange - best way to forward a shared address to two people?:

@Dashrender said in Exchange - best way to forward a shared address to two people?:

We have a user who has resigned. I need their email to go to two people, but I don't want to have to use a license to do it.

Do I create a contact, then forward the email to both internal addresses?

Thoughts?

Distribution group with the employee email address and then add those users as members of the group. done.

Others said it before you - but best explanation.

Thanks.

I found a post where someone blamed the way chrome uses BITS for updates.

They claimed that removing chrome, then resetting BITS would solve it.

I didn’t have time to test before my trip.

@Dashrender nice

I have seen weird/slow response with the video/hardware acceleration turned on. Try disabling it.

@dashrender So what task management software has she used? Evernote and Todoist are pretty darn good and have different styles.

Hello.
I tried rdp connection to the server by entering the ip address with relative port (192.168.1.66:1512) and it worked. I do not understand why the problem occurred with the installation of the latest Windows 10 release (April 2018).
thank you. regards.

Mix of HP and Sharp... a few examples:

Sharp MX-7040N Sharp MX-4070V Sharp MX-M3050 HP LaserJet M401DNE HP LaserJet M452dn

@dashrender said in Excel - auto recover:

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - auto recover:

@dashrender said in Excel - auto recover:

@jaredbusch said in Excel - auto recover:

@dashrender said in Excel - auto recover:

@jaredbusch said in Excel - auto recover:

@dashrender said in Excel - auto recover:

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - auto recover:

@wrx7m said in Excel - auto recover:

That is why I tell people the policy is to reboot every night before you leave for the day. Most people do... some don't. This is the exact reason why this is the policy.

Yup, I agree, end of day reboots are the smartest if you can get people to do it.

Most of our people do - the few (really the one) who doesn't is also the one in charge. I can't make them.

Sure you can. If it is company policy, you simply create a schedule task to reboot machines.

LOL - You're on a roll today!

Just stop covering up bad behavior.

You, and others make it sound like I have a choice here - I only have two choices, perhaps three - 1) quit
2) according to you all ignore her
3) just stop talking to you all about trying to find solutions to provide to attempt to fix things.

No, you are missing the one thing we all recommend...

The CTJ talk. The talk where you give her the options and make her choose. You don't make up the options, you just enumerate the ones that exist.

No one has suggested any of the things you think we are recommending and missing the one choice we almost all agree on.

Can you spell out those options, apparently I've missed them.. .I feel like I've already gave her said options.. and she chose the one not on the table - to do nothing and still complain about it.

At which point, my option option is to basically ignore her - stop caring, whatever you want to call it, it's basically the same thing.

You can come up with the range of known options. Examples:

Use Google Apps and live with their save mechanism. Use local Excel and live with it's save options, either auto or off. Use Excel online and live with its save options. Use a different application, like OnlyOffice. Use Excel with auto save but get a "save all changes" storage system like Exablox

Tell her what is possible, that's your job. Afix prices and info to each. Then make her decide. Then any complaints you just tell her "hey, talk to the person who made this decision... you".

@jaredbusch said in Zoho and Outlook with Activesync:

@dashrender said in Zoho and Outlook with Activesync:

Messages over 6 months old not syncing (or visible at all in Outlook, but are visible in Zoho webmail)

Assuming you are in cached mode, did you tell Outlook to download all mail? I believe by default on Exchange is sets to 12 months.

Yes, cached mode was/is enabled, and set to all mail.

This one:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2128112-microsoft-creators-update-removes-even-more-functionality

I checked just now to see if indexing was installed and setup on the server for this share.

Installed - check
configured for this share - negative.

So I checked the box for the required folders and now it's indexing. We'll see if this makes any difference.

@momurda said in Win10 won't highlight selected items in File Explorer:

I see this happen sometimes. It actually selects everythign but you cant actually see that it has. Luckily this has always gone away when i reboot.

In my case it was selecting only the one item being clicked on, as evidenced by the status bar at the bottom of the window.

The weird thing for my user - the busy cursor came up when they double clicked on the item, but (in this case) Excel never opened. The busy cursor was still there when I arrived about 25 seconds later.

I had the user check task manager - nothing was hung, the CPU was yawning at 10% usage, RAM was under 3 GB used (8 in the machine).
I had the user return to File Explorer, and try again, first try (at my request) - nothing, second try - it opened.

The lack of opening makes me thing the user is was moving the mouse between clicks, though I can't prove that.

FYI - I've set two of the machine (one laptop and one desktop) to not sleep for 3+ hours. We'll see if this makes any difference. The laptop user is not very mobile, so they rarely move the laptop (close the lid, etc).

JB suggested that this is related to an as yet unresolved issue with pjsip.

To that end, I have changed this trunk from pjsip to sip.

Being as this is an intermittent issue (3 times in the last month, reboot always fixes), only time will tell if sip fixes it.

In the meantime I'm still curious if the logs are in any way helpful?

@bbigford said in Windows Admin Center:

@dashrender said in Windows Admin Center:

@bbigford said in Windows Admin Center:

It was a messy setup and doesn't work with most browsers. I started laughing when I got the cert prompt.

Why, you would expect a self signed unless you replace it.

Sorry, not that I wasn't expecting it since it is self-signed. Just after having it not work with anything but Edge, it was just one more thing to get through and I was nearly done at that point. But I couldn't get it working with Edge very quickly to try it out (got more errors) so I eventually just uninstalled it.

Edge would act the same as IE, I mean you would expect that after the SSL Cert warning anything else would work better but you it is always a feature with MS 🙂

@dashrender said in T-mobile stores passwords in clear text:

At bare minimum this social media person needs to be fired. This is so much more egregious than the Hilton guy who was fired a few weeks ago.

Yes, none of his response made any sense.

I have not seen that yet, but do you do Windows Drivers through Microsoft?

@dashrender said in Secunia PSI replacement:

Secunia PSI

Did you use this to check updates and security patches on the computers? I have not used it before.

@matteo-nunziati said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:

@dashrender said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:

OK, to the end to my question seems to be - stick with status quo.

i.e. Dell Optiplex or HP Elite series.

Of course a few other names were tossed around, but the general consensus wasn't some unheard of (by me) brand or whiteboxing, etc.

+1 for optiplex

Unless there price is noticeably less than HP's, I'm not likely to switch. HP Elite desktops have been great for me. Small form factor i5 with 8 GB RAM run around $800.