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Continue reading →: Y2K…25 years ago
25 years ago, some people were convinced the world would end, but I was confident nothing severe would happen that night. December 31st, 1999, I was an IT manager for a publishing company. For those of you who don’t know the significance of Y2K, here’s a summary. In the early…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes, people make mistakes
Tech-savvy staff (I’ll call them TSS) can be great for helping with your small, low-budget technology environment, but sometimes intentions are good, and results are bad. The problem: A user had one ethernet wall outlet in their office and needed to plug in more than one ethernet device. The TSS…
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Continue reading →: Anatomy of a network connection problem
There have been several times in my career that I have come across faulty network interface ports or bad ethernet cables/connections and they can be difficult to diagnose. Symptoms usually appear when network devices go offline, come back online, go offline, etc. Here are a few steps and inexpensive tools…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft 365 Account Compromised?
Are your users having any of these symptoms? Primary Causes Microsoft 365 Admin Response Verify Contact user (not by email) to discuss possibilities of how it happened Log into Microsoft 365 Identity Admin portal (entra.microsoft.com): Log into Microsoft 365 Exchange Admin portal (admin.exchange.microsoft.com): Mitigate Block sign-in for that user orLog…
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Continue reading →: 5 Steps to Get Started with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph
Disclaimer: This article is for less technical people who just want to do a few easy queries of Microsoft 365. It is not for people who enjoy programming and want to know all there is about PowerShell and Microsoft Graph. Microsoft has been pushing Microsoft Graph for data connectivity, so…
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Continue reading →: CISM Journey Update
So far, my journey to CISM has been rocky. A month has passed, and I’ve only read two chapters from my new book. I also took practice tests (15 questions) at the back of each chapter and got 73% and 60% correct. I wasn’t too concerned after the first chapter…
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Continue reading →: 10 Things Your Kids May Never Do
Our daily lives continue to be affected by changing technology. Here are 10 things your kids may never do that were once very common. Our kids are in their 20s and haven’t done many of these. Can you add to this list? Write a check – I still write about…
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Continue reading →: What is the Second-stage Recycle Bin in Microsoft 365?
Not long ago, a client contacted me because a recently terminated employee allegedly deleted several important files from a SharePoint site before they left. When files are deleted from a SharePoint site or OneDrive for Business, they are moved to the Recycle Bin (also referred to as the First-stage Recycle…
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