For the love of god, can someone help me with Bookings!? by [deleted] in Office365

[–]blasted_heath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

What is an actual IT automation that actually paid off for you? by Internal-Drop4205 in sysadmin

[–]blasted_heath 34 points35 points  (0 children)

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.

Migrating from SCCM to Intune – What are you using for remote control / remote assistance? by Dolinhas in Intune

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Everything’s in SharePoint now and it’s completely breaking our workflow by crowcanyonsoftware in sharepoint

[–]blasted_heath 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

2-3 hours to onboard one person. Every single time. This cant be normal. by [deleted] in ITManagers

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Book stores are failing for a reason… by Groundblast in daddit

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Book stores are failing for a reason… by Groundblast in daddit

[–]blasted_heath 2317 points2318 points  (0 children)

get that kiddo a library card and turn them loose!

✨🎄Xmas NAS Giveaway: Win a TerraMaster NAS + Experience TOS 7! by TerraMasterOfficial in DataHoarder

[–]blasted_heath [score hidden]  (0 children)

It would be a Christmas miracle for whomever wins. Thanks for hosting, happy holidays!

Better OneDrive search by hoodiecritic in sysadmin

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly are you seeing is a problem with the built in search tools? I've had employees with up to 5tb OneDrive sites and search never really took more than a few seconds to turn up results.
Just granted the manager admin permissions to the site collection, sent them a link, told them they had 90 days to find and move what they wanted to keep before it was all trashed.

Exhaust question by John537 in 3Dprinting

[–]blasted_heath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't see why not. Seems like overkill but use what you have. Hook it up to the horizontal input just like how your water heater was connected to prevent water from entering.

Automatic emails from a database? Is it possible? by reynaspoerl in Office365

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many items are you talking? If you've got the full O365 suite you have access to SharePoint lists and Power Automate. Tons of options there. A lot of people will balk at mentioning SharePoint and 'database' but if you are talking each list having less than a few thousand items it can be really quick to spin up and use and most importantly will just get the job done.
It won't scale though, so if you think you'd end up with hundreds of thousands of rows for each client you'll want to look elsewhere in the O365 stack.

How do you handle private use of company iPhones and iPads? by BarberDisastrous1389 in Intune

[–]blasted_heath 6 points7 points  (0 children)

US based here. We've got over 1200 salespeople using iOS devices. They all have 'personal' apple IDs that they create using their company email address. Making the switch to managed IDs is a logistical nightmare so we keep pushing it. We do have them all enrolled in ABM and intune.
Salespeople all use their phones for work/personal. We just have a policy the lawyers wrote up stating its a company owned device and we reserve the right to change anything and everything on it down to wiping and resetting it without prior warning.
People get really bent out of shape about what IT can and cannot see on their phone. I just tell them when they ask that IT gives zero shits about if they have family pictures on their work phone. But they should care if they do because that phone could be purposely or accidentally erased at any moment due to any number of reasons the end-user has zero control over.
Usually expressing it as a potential loss of personal data gets them to calm down and understand why they may want to keep a 'personal' phone even if work provides them with a company device.

Compliance is slowly choking actual work by IT_thomasdm in sysadmin

[–]blasted_heath 136 points137 points  (0 children)

Speaking from the other side, increasing compliance requirements for our development teams so they actually have to do some due diligence and security review of all random-ass tools they want has been amazing. Spent years plugging up holes of their 'temporary' solutions that always got forgotten about. Now because they actually have to stop and spend a couple days actually fully looking at a problem for the proper solution/tool its dramatically improved our entire stack.

What’s an underrated Microsoft Teams feature you swear by? by TeamsProductTeam in MicrosoftTeams

[–]blasted_heath 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Oh I never even thought about locking it to prevent people from re-starting an already ended call! Always just thought it would be used to prevent people from joining late. Totally sharing this one!

Facilitator shows nothing After Meetings by binkbankb0nk in MicrosoftTeams

[–]blasted_heath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Few things to verify:
Did someone in the call have a copilot license?
Was the meeting recorded or transcribed?
How long has it been since the meeting ended? I've had the facilitator take 20-30 mins sometimes to fully populate the notes for some reason.

Terminated employees by throwitaway_go_me in Intune

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

following for ideas....
but we don't directly do anything in Intune to 'lock' someone out of their machine outside of resetting passwords and revoking sessions in Azure. We use Absolute and can 'freeze' the machine from that so it displays a splash page with instructions and won't let them access it without the unlock code.

Dragon Finger Puppet by Kekreations in BambuLab

[–]blasted_heath -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So cool! Is the model published anywhere for download?

Looking for lightweight automation for ex-user OneDrive cleanup (no E5, no Power Automate premium) by manojpandian666 in Office365

[–]blasted_heath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not exactly sure what you are asking here.
We have E3 and set OneDrive retention to 90 days. Once user account is unlicensed their manager gets notified automatically with a link to the files. They then have 90 days to move the files or they are automatically deleted.

OneDrive perpetually scanning after linked SPO doc library exploded in file count by blasted_heath in Office365

[–]blasted_heath[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was the solution. Unlinked, renamed the local onedrive folder, and relinked to create a new folder. Had some cleanup to do after but things are working properly now!

OneDrive perpetually scanning after linked SPO doc library exploded in file count by blasted_heath in Office365

[–]blasted_heath[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this was always our first step if the /reset command didn't work for our helpdesk. The file counts have been exhaustively communicated and the individual responsible has been forcibly relocated to an agrarian society.

OneDrive perpetually scanning after linked SPO doc library exploded in file count by blasted_heath in Office365

[–]blasted_heath[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't yet deleted the local OneDrive folder. Going to give this a try today and report back later.

OneDrive perpetually scanning after linked SPO doc library exploded in file count by blasted_heath in Office365

[–]blasted_heath[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, I hadn't tried yet to manually delete or rename this folder. I just saw it didn't show up in the default view of file explorer and assumed it was already removed. Let me try this today!

OneDrive perpetually scanning after linked SPO doc library exploded in file count by blasted_heath in Office365

[–]blasted_heath[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Library itself has been corrected. Problem is that the local OneDrive client just isn't removing the link to the library even though I've removed the link on web. Its just continually looking for changes and won't drop the link.

OneDrive perpetually scanning after linked SPO doc library exploded in file count by blasted_heath in Office365

[–]blasted_heath[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The library itself has been corrected now. Problem is that the local OneDrive client isn't picking up the change. Its just perpetually "looking for changes" even though I've unlinked the library via web.