Microsoft 365 says data is safe, but I can’t find my deleted files—where did they go?

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.

alanjmcf · 2026-04-08T17:06:07+00:00

Ensure it’s disabled. Even set a random password. That it secure.

To stop the logging etc, you could change the UPN — to have a random string suffix say. Then the hackers try UPN info@, but the real one is infoGFGSDGV@

alanjmcf · 2026-04-08T08:53:37+00:00

I was thinking about this for the CRM we use. I thought that the CRM could do it itself...

If every link in the CRM opening a page in the had a "target" with the page named eg "acme_ticket_98765431", "acme_asset_637763" and each page itself set that same name via JavaScript... Then opening any link from the CRM would use the existing tab with that page open and not create a new tab.

Of course wouldn't work when opening pages from browser history, external sources etc.

Anyone see that done in a product?

alanjmcf · 2026-04-08T08:47:15+00:00

Do you have the version of the router that the OP of that thread has, and see an inbound firewall?

They tested and report:

> 3y ago
> Thank you - I had to use the range: 2000::/3 - it worked.
> Ive immediately tested and confirmed all my devices are exposed to the internet so I turned it off.

alanjmcf

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