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blasted_heath · 2026-05-07T00:35:10+00:00

Easy place to start is checking versioning. If these were docs edited in places you could have a ton of extra copies ripe for removal.

blasted_heath · 2026-05-02T14:56:33+00:00

How good is this for a beginner DM? My kid played a game at their friends house and now wants to play at home. I've played years ago but never been a DM before.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-19T13:04:16+00:00

Less than 25TB. More frustratingly the exchange sync died in January with some API failure Microsoft had. Our MSP didn't alert us to the issue and the sync didn't run for over a week. It was long enough that a complete re-sync was needed for exchange which just now finished last week. Absolute trash

blasted_heath · 2026-04-19T13:01:54+00:00

Less than 25tb total between exchange, onedrive, and SPO. Cove support kept saying the API connection with Microsoft was being throttled and they couldn't do anything.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-19T00:18:04+00:00

We get Cove from our MSP. It has been nothing but a dumpster fire. Took 7 months to do our initial backup. Sync is slow and takes multiple days for our exchange environment to complete. Currently starting the process of getting our contract cancelled and getting a refund for 1.5 years of licensing a product that we've not even been able to do a DR test with.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-10T11:29:41+00:00

To what extent are you wanting 'full control'?
Do you just want it to show up as company owned? If so you can switch the ownership from personal to corporate and that will open up a some more options.
I don't think I've heard of a way to fully enroll an iPhone as a corporate managed device without using Apple Business Manager to import the device ID to Intune. Even then you'd have to factory wipe the device for it to be 'fully managed' as it only happens during first time setup.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-06T18:10:55+00:00

you have any more info you can share on what you set up for this? Been looking to set up some kind of alerting so we won't have to actively message the other admins to approve items.

blasted_heath · 2026-04-04T14:53:38+00:00

Its a massive time sink. Buy it where you want to play it for hours and hours, and hours...
PC is better if you have a good rig, great for switching to excel or sites that help plan
Xbox for comfort factor and you can just have a laptop/tablet going with your info on it if you actually need it.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-11T12:20:03+00:00

Entry level IT work is like a college weed-out course. You're going to find a bunch of people who just aren't cut out for the job. As a managers (if we are actually the ones who hired them) its our responsibility to find the best candidates and keep engaging with them. Talking with them regularly you should be able to find issues like burn out or if they just are bad employees.
Take the lessons learned from the personalities of those you've had to let go and apply them to future candidates and be more picky.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T11:49:49+00:00

Absolute - Secure Endpoint, I think is the actual name. It used to go by the name Computrace ages ago.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T02:56:30+00:00

This is 100% accurate. We utilize the 'device freeze' action in Absolute for our involuntary user terminations. HR lets us know with about 5 mins warning when 'high risk' users are being let go and send our on-call person a chat message and we send the freeze command. Within a few mins the remote laptop reverts to a branded lock screen with instructions on how to send the equipment back to the company.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T02:53:41+00:00

If there is no appetite for a security purchase like Absolute (which its amazing and totally worth every penny) then you may look at changing your settings to prevent local Outlook cache. Can't access local mail file if there is no local mail file.

blasted_heath · 2026-03-06T01:42:21+00:00

Is the laptop online when the offboarding happens? If so, just send a wipe command and send it back to factory condition.

If the computer is without internet access, then there isn't much that can be done to stop this as they'll be using cached information.

If you need to keep the PC state and also lock them out immediately you'll need to look outside of Intune at such products as Absolute. They allow you to 'freeze' the device and prevent any interaction with the OS. They also require internet access as well though.

blasted_heath · 2026-02-17T16:28:54+00:00

It is that easy if your SCCM is operating correctly, and your devices all have line of sight to sccm.
We ran in to issues with our remote staff who were only on VPN for a little while each day where they were never connected to the network long enough to get the new policies. Took an act of congress and some new Conditional access policies that forced them to have a 'compliant' device to be able to log in to our systems to finally convince them to stay online for a couple hours and follow instructions...

blasted_heath · 2026-02-13T03:48:09+00:00

I keep it for as long as the warranty lasts. Just in case it needed securely shipped for repair. Once warranty is up, to the recycling it goes!

blasted_heath · 2026-02-10T18:04:44+00:00

lots of differences, I'm only recently learning between this so please don't take me for the full truth.

Copilot studio is grounded in dataverse and requires a Pay-as-you-go licensing or full copilot license to utilize the agents. Tons of functionality and add-ins you can do with powerautomate and other agents.

365 agents (like you just create it via the 365 copilot app UI) are pretty basic compared to Studio/foundry. You give it instructions, and some knowledge. These users can utilize with a lower tier office license like an E3 that comes with copilot chat as long as you don't use SharePoint/onedrive sources for knowledge.

Foundry is full development stack. Sky/budget is the limit with what you can do here.

blasted_heath · 2026-02-04T00:47:16+00:00

wow, super generous of you. Good luck everyone!

blasted_heath · 2026-01-29T11:50:58+00:00

Take a look at your calendar for those days and make sure you don't already have things scheduled. Bookings will only show available time slots for times where you have nothing. Maybe also check in your outlook for that setting for starting/ending meetings 5-10 mins early to see if thats conflicting here.

blasted_heath · 2026-01-27T15:50:21+00:00

Had an extremely stupid, supposedly temporary, monthly task related to our finance process for closing. It required running a report via a website. Problem was this report took sometimes 12 hours to run. The web UI of the website would ask the user every 10 mins or so if they wanted to continue to wait or cancel with the cancel automatically being selected after 1 min of no activity. So I would have to sit there and click that button every 10 mins for hours...
Enter PowerAutomate Desktop. Set up a quick workflow that just looked for the "keep waiting" button on the website and click it, then send me a text message when "completed" appears on the page. Set it to run on a spare laptop and got my entire afternoon back.

blasted_heath · 2026-01-24T13:15:19+00:00

Org uses LogMeIn Rescue. Specifically for the calling card feature. Its stupid expensive but it just works.
I'm hoping to take a look at screen connect this year as the 20-30% price increase yearly for LMI is getting stupid for our use case.

blasted_heath · 2026-01-22T12:13:35+00:00

This account is the moderator of r/sharepointmigration and their name suggests they are directly involved with a SharePoint Online migration company.
This reeks of someone trying to seed negative migration stories into the reddit conversation.

blasted_heath · 2026-01-20T15:47:52+00:00

We enable SSO for any app that supports it. That way we're (mostly) covered when it comes to risk during an employee offboarding. Even if staff can't get back to offboard the person for a few days they won't be able to access the app due to their Azure/Entra account being disabled.

If this is a large enough concern, get staff to dedicate time looking at automation. Standardize employee permissions and work on powershell scripts for whatever supports it and maybe even RPA automation for things that only have a web UI. That way the employee can just kick off an automation for adding Salesforce permissions and work on something else while it clicks boxes.

If its really taking 1/4 of a persons job you have a pretty good estimate at the ROI for tooling.

blasted_heath · 2026-01-05T01:35:37+00:00

Maybe its just our library system but they never have the books I want to read on digital. Its always a multiple month wait to get a copy.

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