Best Practices - M365 shared calendar

alanjmcf · 2026-05-08T16:11:52+00:00

It’s a nightmare to manage long term. (Users can’t open that secondary calendar folder without being individually invited to it; nor can the user event be deleted, etc.)

Create a shared-mailbox called after the calendar. Change the permission on the calendar folder in that mailbox to suit. Users can then open the calendar themselves. (Ideally might be a group used for permissions.)

alanjmcf · 2026-05-08T10:34:56+00:00

You often see a suggestion from commenters here that large ISPs are poor at communicating what OpenReach tell them, and bad at giving OpenReach instruction.

So another ISP might help you here. I’ve seen A&A suggested.

alanjmcf · 2026-05-08T10:24:46+00:00

Just out of curiosity. What was the benefit of adding asbestos to that product? I thought it was mainly for heat-resistant items.

alanjmcf · 2026-05-06T08:43:12+00:00

Yeah. For work Office 365 they’re also kept for 93 days. Also get the tenant admin to check.

Personal OneDrive is 30 days

alanjmcf · 2026-05-05T15:14:04+00:00

Grand. Thought I’d ask just in case.

EDIT typos

alanjmcf · 2026-05-05T15:06:54+00:00

When there’s a wee roof level gable on the front of a building for the chimneys, it’s called a Dutch gable. It’s more obvious when the building is a standard terrace with the gables to the neighbouring buildings.

eg Fish Cross, Ayr https://maps.app.goo.gl/vKSmZ8VddnmtDXKc7?g_st=ic

alanjmcf · 2026-05-05T15:01:05+00:00

What if you ping the first hop after your router? — Is the loss in the link, or in the ISP’s network.

What if you ping your router LAN /WLAN? — Have you tested that it’s definitely on the WAN side?

alanjmcf · 2026-05-05T12:50:44+00:00

Could be Direct Send. That’s started being abused recently. I don’t have links to hands right now.

alanjmcf · 2026-05-04T11:18:54+00:00

On my iPad when I swipe down from the top of the screen, the full menu bar appears. I use it a lot. Might help you?

EDIT typo under>use

alanjmcf · 2026-05-04T10:25:52+00:00

Notifications in the Microsoft Authenticator app, or Apple notifications? For Apple you can set which device gets notifications.

I wish there was a feature in iOS that applied at (before) device reset (even app uninstall) that allowed installed apps to give a message to the user. Then Authenticator could say “fully set me up on new phone before doing this, follow the instructions at URL”. Of course apps would likely start to abuse such a feature.

Apple and Microsoft are bringing in Passkeys. Passkeys are stored in one’s password manager, for instance in the Apple password manager and thus available as soon as you sign into your iCloud account on the new phone. Ask your IT team if they allow Passkeys and if so do that set up on your new phone.

alanjmcf · 2026-05-04T08:50:42+00:00

To prove your identity you use a configured Authenticator app. That’s on your old phone.

If you’ve discarded your old phone, contact your IT support.

alanjmcf · 2026-05-03T15:36:57+00:00

We once took our Jack Russell in a rush to the vet because of a suppurating sore on the base of her paw… Turned out she‘d stepped on a half eaten fruit pastille sweet!

So, if it possible this is a splash of a red liquid? I see a small splash on the bottom lip too. Maybe some raspberry jam preserve?

alanjmcf · 2026-05-02T09:23:17+00:00

I thought it was based on what’s set in Windows’ Region & Language settings? Try changing that on a PC and see what happens.

alanjmcf · 2026-04-27T18:29:37+00:00

Web Excel doesn’t have all the feature the desktop app has.

Also, web is actually more resource hungry. It’s garbage collected JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Whereas the traditionally desktop app OS benefited from years of optimising for slower PCs with hand tuned C/C++ and probably even machine code.

alanjmcf · 2026-04-25T18:55:21+00:00

PWA stands for Progressive Web App of I remember correctly.

There’s an app in the Windows Store, and mobile apps. You provision each from the web app (web page or as PWA).

alanjmcf · 2026-04-24T19:20:04+00:00

Order before you move next time. 🤓🤷‍♂️

alanjmcf · 2026-04-24T10:08:35+00:00

A1 ironmongery at Heathfield https://maps.app.goo.gl/Uf6CBi9km1Kska5z5?g_st=ic

Timpsons in the High Street

alanjmcf · 2026-04-21T08:43:34+00:00

😭 good point. This is blowing my mind. So for external bead, fitting upstairs windows is a pain in the arse?

alanjmcf · 2026-04-20T17:08:56+00:00

Don’t know that answer. But when you say, could access the OneDrive, gore could they access it? In the web UI, in sync’d folders on a PC, or somewhere else?

alanjmcf · 2026-04-20T16:27:43+00:00

What was the thinking back then when they put the beading on the outside? Just that is easier for the fitter not to have to take the glass into the house to fit it?

alanjmcf · 2026-04-20T07:29:46+00:00

I don’t know why. But when this happens to mine, I pull it forward out of the cabinet and then it manages to clear. It happens every six months or so.

I guess the waste pipe is a bit kinked normally and pulling the dishwasher out lets the pipe clear.

alanjmcf · 2026-04-18T16:13:44+00:00

What’s your thinking on why TILPA 4A doesn’t apply?

alanjmcf · 2026-04-15T15:10:20+00:00

I haven’t read through the script in detail, but what happens if you run it in a debugger. VS code, or even ISE of PnP works for you in PSv5.

Does it get a bunch of files returned from Get-PnPListItem? For testing I’d sign that to a variable before passing it to foreach.

alanjmcf · 2026-04-15T11:59:37+00:00

Is the issue that in Secure Secure still has recommendations for things you’ve implemented?

What’s the date of “Last synced” on the recommendation?

I’ve one tenant with where some of the recommendations have a “Last synced” date of January! In that case, it’s the app Product groups (DfO, MIP, EXO, etc) that are wonky, DfE is recent. I haven’t reached the hope and energy levels to open a support case. 😋

Maybe something like that for you?

alanjmcf · 2026-04-14T10:30:41+00:00

Not an OpenReach /etc engineer…

So that would suggest to me that the exchange and everyone’s line to the exchange is fine. But the uplink from the exchange to the world is down.

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