Sysadmin Stuff Archives - dave.harris.uno

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-5953e8982216b881681303/] 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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Upgrading DirSync to Azure AD Connect

19 Dec

I finally got around to moving over from DirSync at the weekend, or rather Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) to Azure AD Connect. For those who don’t know, this software sits locally and basically keeps your local AD in sync with...
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Windows (10) Fixes

6 Dec

Just tidying up all my notes, came across this, might be useful for someone having Windows 10 issues. Things to try before a re-install: Sfc /scannow dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth dism /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth (Will add...
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Outlook 2016 Print Dialogue Box Closes Instantly

11 Oct

Had an issue recently when a user could print from any application, except Outlook. The print box would flash on the screen for a second but wouldn’t print the item. The fix was to rename the file OutlPrnt from %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook to...
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