Move AD Group Members to an OU
KB ID 0001266 Problem I got asked to do this at work this week, PLEASE BE AWARE, moving users about within AD may drastically change the way your ‘User Group Policies’ are being applied. So do some Group Policy Modelling beforehand, to avoid any problems. Solution In the example above, I’ve got ten users in a security group called ‘Source-Group’. For simplicity, they are all in the same source OU as well,...
Upgrade vSphere vCenter Appliance to Version 6.5
KB ID 0001265 Problem Here I’m upgrading from version 6.0 to 6.5, the process creates a new vCenter appliance, then migrates all your settings into it, finally it then shuts down the old appliance and brings up the new one. Note: This procedure is ‘non-invasive’ i.e. it does not affect your production VMs, a vSphere environment can run for about 60 days without it’s vCenter, all that you would lose is the...
Microsoft Office for Mac – Favorites Missing
KB ID 0001264 Problem Whenever Office needs updating on my Mac I just hit OK and let it do its own thing. I did that this morning, and went and got a coffee. It was a while later that I noticed that when I needed to add an attachment to an email I got this; Now that might look fine, but in the left hand pane ‘Favourites’ is missing, it should look like this; If I opened launcher it was fine, it was only from Microsoft...