Teams for Mac Spellcheck Not Working
Teams for Mac Spellcheck Not Working KB ID 0001842 Problem I’m running Teams for Mac (Microsoft Teams Classic) and this has happened a couple of times now. My spelling is terrible, so I tend to just type furiously and then go back and fix my spelling mistakes. As with all ‘office based’ application it helpfully underlined all the typos in red, then USUALLY I can right click and correct them. Each time it breaks I can see...
Migrate NPS Server
Migrate NPS Server KB ID 0001841 Problem If you have deployed an NPS Server on your network, there may be a time when you want to replace that server – if all its doing is NPS and its 2012 or newer I’d be tempted to simply in-place upgrade it, but some people are rigid in their beliefs that that is not a good idea. So in that case you need to migrate to a new server. Solution : Migrate NPS Server Locate NPS Server Just in...
RDP Black Screen
RDP Black Screen KB ID 0001840 Problem This problem has jumped up through various iterations of Windows operating systems. You attempt to RDP to a machine; it connects but you simply get a black screen. RDP Black Screen Solution Over the years various ‘hotfixes’ were known to cause this, but before proceeding make sure both the machine you are connecting FROM and the machine you are connected TO are fully patched and...
Insufficient access rights Error Code 8344
Error Code 8344 KB ID 0001636 Problem With Azure AD Replication, you may notice that you have the following error when you take a look at your connector status; Error: permission-issue Connected data source error code: 8344 Connected data source error: Insufficient access rights to perform this operation. Solution: Error Code 8344 Firstly ensure that the user you are running AAD sync under, has the following permissions on the...
PowerShell Inventory Operating Systems in Active Directory
PowerShell Inventory KB ID 0001838 Problem I needed to get a list of operating systems ‘in-use’ in my active directory this week. bear in mind this will pull information from all enables computer accounts in AD, so if you are ‘not good’ at tidying out old machines and servers you might get a lot of garbage in your output! Solution: PowerShell Inventory Use the following PowerShell. Get-ADComputer -Filter...
MS Teams Notifications Missing (macOS)
Teams Notifications KB ID 0001803 Problem I’ve put up with this for a while, my business pretty much runs on Teams now, so when theres no notification badges on the Teams icon (in the Dock), my response times can be ‘not great’. In fact, usually I get my head down into a job, and check Teams just to see a ‘ton’ of messages that need my input. (Some might think that’s a good way to work,) but when...
There Is No Editor Registered To Handle This Attribute Type
KB ID 0001837 Problem If you attempt to edit the authOrig attribute of a mail enabled group using ADSIedit you will get the following error. There is no editor registered to handle this attribute type. Why would you be doing this? This is done when you want to restrict who can email a group. Solution If you are running either on-premises Microsoft Exchange (or are running in Hybrid Exchange mode, and have retained an Exchange server...
Exchange: Object Reference Not Set To An Instance Of An Object
Object Reference Not Set KB ID 0001836 Problem This has plagued me for a while – but as the server was my test server it’s had to wait. When attempting to open the Exchange Admin Center website I got the following; Server Error in ‘/ecp’ Application Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Object Reference Not Set: Solution First stop was to make sure all the Exchange services were running....
Excel: Calculate Cost, Margin, Sell Price
KB ID 0001835 Problem Occasionally at work I need to work out what the sale price / retail price will be for something would be (given that I know the cost and the % margin). That’s easy to work out. But sometimes I get given the sell / retail price and I know the margin used, and I then must work out what the cost will be. Ordinarily if it’s a quick question I’ll just use and online margin calculator. But if I have a LOT of...
Delegate LAPS Administration
LAPS Administration KB ID 0001834 Problem I saw this asked on a forum this morning and, went to test the answer (and create an article if successful), to find out the posted answer and most of the info I found online was for Microsoft LAPS and not the newer Windows LAPS. Windows LAPS Laps Administration Let’s say we have an OU called Computers (with my computers in) and I want to grant read permissions to LAPS password to a security...