Want to track how long you spend in Microsoft Teams meetings or have a request from a user for some stats? Luckily, it's actually quite easy to get the meeting durations for any user in your tenancy. Common scenarios for needing meeting duration Ok, some of these might not be common but I have seen … Continue reading Check length (duration) of Microsoft Teams meetings
One of the most requested features on Microsoft's UserVoice forum was the Support for Dynamic '+' Email Aliases in Office 365. This has been pending since 2017 and Microsoft finally implemented it in September 2020. Woohoo! However, it's not enabled by default in Exchange Online, so we'll have to turn it on. What is '+' … Continue reading Enable ‘+’ plus addressing in Exchange Online
My computer is in the lounge and it tends to be left on for most of the day (especially with WFH in full effect). With 4 monitors hooked up, it actually outputs a decent amount of light and if you're trying to watch a movie on the TV it can be distracting. Of course, I … Continue reading Shortcut to turn off monitors on Windows 10
Do you run a WordPress site? Have you configured it so that its contents are automatically backed up in case of failure/hack/human error? If it's a no, then you better get cracking as it can happen to anyone. Check out how you can automatically backup any WordPress site to Amazon S3 on a regular schedule … Continue reading How to automatically backup a WordPress site to AWS S3
I'm lazy, no getting around that but over the last year or so I've been able to maintain zero emails in my Gmail inbox. One of the ways I lazily do this is by archiving the vast majority of mail that requires no action but I may need to refer back to in the future. … Continue reading Gmail – Automatically mark archived mail as read
Recently, I needed to review a whole bunch of domains and see if the domain information is up to date. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to do this but seen as there was quite a few (100+) I'd thought I would create a quick and dirty PowerShell script. There are plenty of APIs … Continue reading PowerShell – Get WHOIS domain information
Using Git on Windows is pretty straight forward. You can just install Git for Windows and use either the Git GUI app or Git Bash console. But what if you use PowerShell as your default console of choice and don't want to switch? Furthermore, what if you're connecting via SSH keys? Well with the help … Continue reading PowerShell – Using Git with SSH Keys on Windows 10
Perhaps you need an app principal to be able to access a particular SharePoint site? You could be using the great SharePoint PnP PowerShell module and you want to connect via an AppId and AppSecret. You've got two choices: Grant access using Azure AD app-only Microsoft's preferred method when using SharePoint Online. All you have … Continue reading SharePoint – Extending app only secret lifetime
Microsoft announced a while back that they are going to end support for basic authentication in Exchange Online from Oct 13, 2020. This includes connecting via remote PowerShell. So what do we need do in order to connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell? Answer: Use Modern Authentication. Modern authentication is based on the use of … Continue reading Exchange – Connect via PowerShell using Modern Authentication
By default, all SharePoint sites created in SharePoint Online are set to the United States time zone and locale. In the past, you had to either manually or programmatically set the timezone, region and locale for every site including all sites generated by the creation of an Office 365 group. The good news is now … Continue reading SharePoint – Automatically set the time zone on all new sites
