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Re: Windows 11 just started to chew up RAM. ~15 GB unaccounted for.
Task Manager is indicating you are only using 57% of your RAM. Why worry about that? If it was in the 85-95% might then be of concern. Also, after using computer for a very long time and one of those that used to watch all the stats in Task Manager, trust me, just use your computer and let Windows manage it. Watching memory use (or any of the other stats) is just a time waster. I finally woke up to that a number of years ago. Of course if that's what you want to do, by all means do.8Views0likes0CommentsRe: Spam and Junk
If the spam is ending up in your Junk Email folder then using the Reporting tool is not needed. Here's the steps an Exchange Engineer once told me at a conference a number of years ago to manage my mailbox with as little effort as possible. Check Inbox, move spam to Junk Email (this tells backend servers that you find it to be junk) Check Junk Email, move any legit items to your Inbox Empty Junk Email folder That's it. No Rules, No Blocks, No Reporting. Microsoft blocks multi-Billions (yes that's a B) of emails a day from ever entering our mailboxes. They let the ones they aren't 100% sure about through just in case something might be legit for you. Also, realize that Business users do get better spam blocking, but we are of course paying for it, whereas the majority of Consumer users do not. As for your friend, maybe they've never released their email address publicly. So far, there are no email services that can promise 0 spam.7Views0likes0CommentsRe: DO NOT UPGRADE TO "NEW OUTLOOK"
At our business we keep trying to prevent "New" Outlook from installing on our company's computers but it is a constant battle even though we are enterprise and intune users. Microsoft will change how they are distributing "New" Outlook and a few of our users install it. They find it doesn't work as expected and we have to go have them uninstall it, and yet again send out communications to avoid "New" Outlook as it is still an Alpha product and missing many features. You'd think Microsoft would respect a businesses and not continue to force a faulty product upon us, but they do.71Views0likes0CommentsRe: Best way to conduct performance reviews in Microsoft Teams?
Typically you send the employee a document which asks questions such as accomplishments, what have they learned during year, etc. Manager fills out same or very similar. The 2 meet in Teams video 1 on 1 and discuss what each wrote. Once come to an agreement both parties sign off on the document, gets routed to HR and then the employee receives their pay raise and bonuses.51Views0likes0CommentsRe: Restrict User Access to Specific Devices and Location Using Intune & Conditional Access
The hard part is going to be the location access. Though the location data for IPs is about 95% accurate you'd run the risk of someone being in Mumbai and Conditional Access thinking your user is somewhere else. The problem is companies do buy and sell IPs and they can then change location and might take awhile before databases are up-to-date. The managed device is a much easier to use conditional access with. Edit: Here's info on using Location in Conditional Access: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/policy-block-by-location71Views0likes0CommentsRe: MS Bookings
Send out an all user email that states, "IT will be removing all Bookings calendars unless you notify us by X date. Please note if we don't hear back from you we will conclude you no longer need the calendar and it will be permanently deleted after that date." Making the users responsible for their items is a good thing, not bad.65Views0likes0CommentsRe: How large is your Windows 10 system's C drive partition?
I don't do W10 anymore, no point since it basically out of support, but for W11 I use all of the main hard drive of the system as the C: drive and don't create additional partitions. I'll add an additional drive for my work documents and files. If I'm creating a virtual machine then I do 100GB as it's an extreme pain to try and expand it later due to Microsoft's hidden "health" partitions that usually end up at the back of of the drive and if want to expand later becomes a hassle.25Views0likes0CommentsRe: The “Agentic” Intranet: Securing and Scaling M365 Copilot with SharePoint & Teams
Yes, CoPilot may be too good at finding data, but unfortunately it has a tendency to allow the data it does find outside of a company's tenant space. That's our big stumbling block to adoption of CoPilot. It's bad enough I receive, seemingly monthly, notices in the Admin Center how Microsoft bugs have cause our logs, or some of our data to go outside our tenant space. Thinking that Microsoft can't prevent that from happening and CoPilot from sharing our data widely, should scare IT leaders even more.49Views0likes0CommentsRe: Microsoft 365 admin center support
Welcome to the real world of Microsoft Tech Support where the number of licenses your company purchases helps to determine how good your support is. Mine has ~100 licenses and it can take days to receive a response, and more often than not, the techs don't even read the ticket. When I say "don't call, use email" and they still call doesn't bode well. I've worked on some issues for 3 or more months before I finally gave up and closed tickets. It is unfortunate, that as customers, we receive that kind of support, but as customers many of us demand the lowest price possible. If we wanted better support then we'd have to be willing to pay extra for it and Microsoft does offer Premier (I think that's what it's called) Support options, for a price of course.25Views0likes0CommentsRe: Unlocking the Power of Microsoft Teams Premium Why It’s Worth the Investment
Interesting, Microsoft couldn't even follow through with the promise of uninstalling old Teams and replace with new Teams, so why would the people in charge of my organization even consider purchasing even more Teams features? How would we know if they'll work consistently? Would the "new new" (next) Teams app be a rollout failure like the current one? Needless to say Teams does not have a good track record in our organization.135Views0likes0CommentsRe: New Outlook: Users Say It's Broken—Microsoft response.
Never heard an actual answer as to why Outlook "new" is being forced upon users. Why the insecurity around your products that you feel you have to force people to use your products? It used to be Microsoft products were well received with tech articles touting features and users would adopt because they wanted to. But now it feels like you know how inadequate and poorly implemented they are now that you have to force them upon users. Outlook "new" isn't the only product Microsoft is forcing upon their users, but it really shows how the developers at Microsoft are out of touch with their user base. Of course maybe these decisions are made by MBA types at Microsoft who have no clue at the history of Microsoft or their user base. And it's laughable to say you have 10s of millions of users who've switched, when you FORCE the switch. Do you take that in account with your numbers? I was FORCED on my home machines to switch, and switched back. Do you consider those scenarios with your numbers?387Views2likes0CommentsRe: Mystery of the Exchange Room accounts in Teams
StevenC365 Likely because we are a small shop, ~ a dozen rooms, and having to manually create and modify a rooms list when the Rooms are in Exchange and should be referenced from their directly. The calendar in Teams seems to have no problems with the rooms names for meeting created in Outlook. So why should Teams be any different? A room list is just additional overhead for something that organizations shouldn't have to maintain.404Views0likes0CommentsAdd-Ins supported for GCC Tenants?
I'm having no luck at getting Outlook Add-Ins deployed to my GCC users. Whenever I go to click on Get Add-Ins in Outlook desktop it dumps me to OWA with no option to adding any items from the online store. Are Add-Ins even supported in GCC tenants?8.9KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Microsoft Teams News: Wiki Page Retiring in January 2024 & There Are Things You Must Do
Teresa_Cyrus Thanks for the recommendation, but to replace the free built-in Wiki feature with a product we'd have to pay for is not an option. Likely when the time comes for GCC to have Teams functionality reduced by the removal of WiKis I'm going to recommend to all my users to use Word or Excel for their various notes and stay away from OneNote. Afterall, Microsoft could one day decide OneNote is going to be retired just like Wikis are now. I'll hedge our bets with Word/Excel as they'll likely stick around for the long haul. Thanks again for the information it's appreciated.5.8KViews0likes12CommentsRe: Microsoft Teams News: Wiki Page Retiring in January 2024 & There Are Things You Must Do
Harm Totally agree. <5% of our users even like OneNote. Most user's app of choice for taking notes, Word! OneNote has a long and justified rep at corrupting OneNote files that can't be recovered.5.3KViews1like0Comments
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