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Altaro Office 365 Backup (for MSPs)

There’s a common misconception that Microsoft fully backs up Office 365 Mailbox. Microsoft is responsible for providing the O365 service, but do you know it’s your (!) responsibility to protect your (customer’s!) O365 data? Microsoft has limited possibilities to help you with unexpected data loss or damage. Therefore it’s very important to have a solid […]

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How to check your Office 365 tenant for auto-forward rules

Use the following steps to check for any Office 365 auto-forward rules to external email addresses. In this blogpost I’m using Powershell to check for any existing auto-forward rules to external email addresses. Step 1 Logon to Office 365 using Powershell Step 2 Export the mailbox(es) that have either redirect or forwarding This produces a […]

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Troubleshooting Visual Studio Code: language client undefined

Recently I ran into the following problem when editing Powershell scripts using Visual Studio Code ; First I tried to remove the specific extension. Go to the extenstion tab and check for installed extensions using @installed : Click the action/config wheel to uninstall the specific extension and reload and reinstall it. In my case that […]

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Troubleshooting Office (/365) made easy

A collegae asked me for my support with a strange problem using Outlook 2016 (Click 2 Run).. She randomly received errors containing running out of memory resources although there were more then enough resources available… After the default checks (update, scanpst, registry settings max cache value etc) I tried the Office 365 troubleshooting tool (C2R) […]

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Free Azure IaaS Webinar with Microsoft’s Thomas Maurer

Implementing Infrastructure as a Service is a great way of streamlining and optimizing your IT environment by utilizing virtualized resources from the cloud to complement your existing on-site infrastructure. It enables a flexible combination of the traditional on-premises data center alongside the benefits of cloud-based subscription services. If you’re not making use of this model, […]

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Unable to connect to share (System error 1272)

I noticed that I ran into a system error 1272 error to connect to a share residing on my NAS.  In Windows 10, version 1709 and higher (also Windows Server versions 1709 and higher) SMB2 guest access is disabled by default. SMBv2 has the following behavior in Windows 10, version 1709, Windows Server version 1709, and Windows Server […]

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Review Altaro VM Backup V8

In this blogpost I’m going to take a closer look to the latest version of Altaro VM Backup.  Altaro is a loyal sponsor of vWorld.nl for some years now and I’m using their product since version 6. Recently Altaro released their latest version (V8) and I thought that would be a great time to post […]

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PatchMyPC to the rescue!

Recently I looked into PatchMyPC for Microsoft SCCM purposes (more info about that in another blog post). But I found out that the Home Edition of PatchMyPC did a hell of a job also! This version is free to download and use and it instantly updates all your installed programs like Notepad++, Winrar etc. The […]

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Ignite 2018 by Tony Krijnen

Wil je weten wat je hebt gemist van Ignite? Tony Krijnen van Microsoft praat je bij in deze TechCast van LogIn! Deze alweer 7e extra TechCast gaat over de nieuwste ontwikkelingen die zijn gepresenteerd op Microsoft Ignite 2018. Tony Krijnen, IoT technologie strateeg bij Microsoft, bezocht dit mega tech-event in Orlando USA en praat Sander […]

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Celebration of Sysadmin Day

My sponsor launched an exciting contest in celebration of Sysadmin Day. Altaro we’ll be giving away Amazon eGift Cards to the first 100 eligible entries and 1 Grand Prize for 1 lucky winner. They have some fantastic options for the grand prize including a Playstation 4 Pro, Xbox One X, 3-year membership of Amazon Prime […]

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Webinar : Journey to the Clouds

My sponsor Altaro is hosting a webinar called “Journey to the Clouds”. There are 2 sessions, feel free to register to one (or both :-)) of them : (Click this banner to register) Some information about the webinar : Want to migrate your datacenter into the cloud but unsure how to make the transition successfully? […]

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How to fix Remote Desktop DPI scaling with high resolution laptops

More and more laptops are equipped with high-resolution screens, like the Microsoft Surfaces and (in my case) the Dell XPS devices. Do you also have a very high-resolution display on your laptop like I do? And is everything too small to see within your Remote Desktop Connection, I found the following solution very useful. This issue […]

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How to export your Windows 10 product key

The product key for new computers that come preinstalled with Windows 10 has the product key stored within the motherboard firmware. Users can retrieve it by issuing a command from the command prompt. Press Windows key + X Click Command Prompt (Admin) At the command prompt, type wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey This will reveal the product key. […]

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