Sysadmin Stuff Archives - dave.harris.uno

Microsoft Wireless Display Adapters V2

2 Aug

I was sure I had already written a post on this, but it appears not, so here we go. A recent (ish) office move and a few new meeting and conference rooms meant the need to start looking into better...
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Office365 Room Calendar Displays and ScreenCloud Dashboards

2 Aug

I setup all the rooms in the head office to have their own calendar in Office365 so users can book meetings without fear of double booking etc. This is done simply in Office365 and then from within Outlook calendars for...
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PXE-E55 WDS, ProxyDHCP service did not reply on port 4011

25 Jul

I was recently building a load of machines, almost all of which worked fine by PXE booting and loading a vanilla Windows 10 O/S, Ver. 1703. I lean towards a completely vanilla build of the basic O/S (this removes any...
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Logging and Reporting on Print Jobs with PaperCut

28 Apr

Some time back I wrote a couple of posts on using the free PaperCut software (this one and this one) I haven’t used it for quite some time, but somewhere else I needed to log and report on Print jobs...
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PowerShell to Maintain a Line Managers Group

22 Mar

A simple bit of PowerShell (feel free to optimise it!) to scan AD for all users (that are enabled and have an email address set) and then assuming a group exists called “Line Managers” it will add anyone who has...
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TalentLMS SSO with Azure AD SAML2.0

17 Mar

So I have this issue which I’m hoping you good people can help with. We use TalentLMS and this is set to use SSO with Azure AD. Basically, I followed section B of this guide as we use our own domain....
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Restrict OneDrive to sync only with Domain Joined PC’s

28 Feb

In the OneDrive admin centre there is an option under Sync for “Allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains. This won’t affect the web based version or any mobile OneDrive clients, it purely stops the automatic sync on...
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Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\webio.dll

18 Jan

I had this issue on a couple of machines. Opening Outlook, Excel and Word 2016 would all crash immediately after opening. The event log showed: [crayon-599df305ee150998642742/] Reinstalling (and repairing) Office seemed to fix the issue short term, but as soon...
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Recording TV to a non-fixed drive in WMC

4 Jan

A few people out there still use Window Media Centre although since M$ dropped it from W10 it’s days are numbered. Since I replaced my Media Centre Extenders with Roku boxes, my only use for it now is to record...
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