Tag Archives: message

Microsoft Teams: Suppress Annoying Message Pop-ups

Posted on by
1

KB ID 0001722

Problem

Wow! Who at Microsoft Teams thought that enabling that by default was a good idea? I was on a large conference call this morning, (about 150 people). Every message to the message feed was spewing onto my screen and making a noise during the meeting!

Thought: Why do ALL developers think it’s a good idea to have pop-up banner massages appear top right of the screen, (where your windows control buttons and things live), why not bottom right?

Anyway, I want them off completely, (if I want to read the messages I’ll open the message feed window!)

Microsoft Teams Notifications

Click your picture/Initials > Settings.

Chat > Edit.

Set as shown > Back to settings.

You may also want to alter, Notifications Section > Custom.

I’ve disabled ‘Banner’ for EVERYTHING and set them to only show in the feed.

Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links

NA

VMware ‘Virtual Machine MessageVirtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform’

Posted on by

KB ID 0000777 

Problem

Everytime you go to power on a virtual machine you get asked the following question,

Virtual Machine Message
Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform.
Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT?

And if you choose No it throws up an error. You need to choose Yes before it will let you power on the VM.

Solution

This is a problem of my own making, a while ago I was trying to enable Hyper-V on a Windows 8 VM, and needed to make a change in my VMware environment so I could add this Windows feature to the VM. I enabled the change globally on the ESX host (Instead of just on the machines .vmx file which would have caused me less problems!).

So I needed to remove the change I made.

1. Connect to the ESX host via SSH, and login.

2. You need to edit the /etc/vmware/config file, and remove the line I had added earlier [highlighted below].

[box]

vi /etc/vmware/config

Navigate to the line you want to remove with the arrow keys > Press I > remove the line > press {Esc}

:wq

[/box]

Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links

VMware Workstation – Error – “Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled”

My McAfee “Shield” has a Red Background / Red Brackets

Posted on by

KB ID 0000201 

Problem

Occasionally you may look at the McAfee shield in your taskbar and see that it has a red surround.

 

Solution

Don’t Panic! This is completely normal, it happens if McAfee has a message for you, in any one of the following scenarios,

1. The system has detected and cleaned a Virus.
2. A file action has been blocked (Or has been set to report).
3. An access protection rule has been broken.

To see what’s going on, right click the shied > And check the options.

For example, in this case there are entries in the “Access Protection Log File”.

To Prove it, on this machine Communicating on on Port 25 is blocked by McAfee (1). When I try and force a port 25 connection via Telnet (2). The traffic is blocked and logged in the Access Protection log (3).

 

Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links

NA