Organizing cloud-based resources is a crucial task for IT, unless all deployments are simple. For complicated or complex deployments, use naming and tagging standards to organize your resources for the following reasons: Resource management: Your IT teams need to quickly locate resources that are associated with specific workloads, environments, ownership groups, or other important information. Organizing Read More
How to Use the Office Customization Tool for Microsoft Apps Deployment
The Office Customization Tool creates the configuration files that are used to deploy Office in large organizations. These configuration files give you more control over an Office installation: you can define which applications and languages are installed, how those applications should be updated, and application preferences. After creating the configuration files, you can use them with the Office Read More
Overview of Shared Computer Activation for Microsoft 365 Apps
The information in this article is intended for administrators and IT Pros. For information about activating a personal copy of Office, see Activate Office. Shared computer activation lets you deploy Microsoft 365 Apps to a computer in your organization that is accessed by multiple users. Here are some examples of supported scenarios: Three workers at a Read More
How to Define Naming Convention in Azure
An effective naming convention consists of resource names from important information about each resource. A good name helps you quickly identify the resource’s type, associated workload, environment, and the Azure region hosting it. For example, a public IP resource for a production SharePoint workload in the West US region might be pip-sharepoint-prod-westus-001. Diagram 1: Components of Read More
10 Best Email Archiving Solutions
Email retention is a legal requirement in many parts of the world. Keeping all of the emails that your company receives and sends plus all of their attachments requires a lot of space. You can reduce your on-site storage needs by archiving emails onto a remote server. There are many reasons that you need to keep all Read More
How to Fix PowerShell Script Won’t Execute as a Windows Scheduled Task
Issue like below: I have a PowerShell script (that works). In Windows Task Scheduler I created a new task to execute “C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe”, passing the argument as my PS1 script. When the task runs I get a Last Run Result of 0x1. I updated my script to write to a log file when the script opens and that Read More