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SharePoint foldershare notification after expiry?
Hi all I am trying to find out if there is a kind of automatic notification avalaible for the following situation: A SharePoint Documents subfolder is shared to some external contacts (not anonymously!). The tenenant is configuered such that external shares expire after 30 days. When the share is about to expire, the SharePoint Site owner should decides if the share is still needed. But the owner is actually not notified that some folder shares are about to expire. so waiting for the exernal users to coplain that they lost their access ist not a option. Is there a way to get a notifiction on the expiring folder share, similar to the notification that an external user (as a SharePoint member) is about to expire? And how can the owner of the SharePoint site then increase the share lifetime? ( best practice?) System is: SharePoint Online M365 tenant Thanks for any help Best regards Jiri
sharing problem after update
hello After installing update KB5065426, the system is no longer able to use shared printers. The PC clients are joined to a domain, and all user accounts are standard users. All machines are running Windows 11 LTSC (latest version and updates). The problem: I shared printers on some clients. When I enter the destination IP or PC name to access the shared resources, I encounter the “Enter Network Credentials” window. I have tried the following: Changed both destination and source user accounts to Administrator. Used the local Administrator username and password. Used the domain Administrator username and password. Used the destination user’s username and password. Rejoined both systems to the domain. Created a new local user with the same username and password on both systems. Checked Windows Credentials in Credential Manager and removed old users/passwords. Disabled password-protected sharing via the registry. Installed the SMB 1.0/CIFS Client feature. Created the registry key: Computer-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-SYSTEM-CurrentControlSet-Services-LanmanWorkstation-Parameters DWORD (32-bit): AllowInsecureGuestAuth =1 I don't know what else I should do
Windows 11 24H2 breaks the .exe and .com file associations
Hello world, Recently updated to 24H2 feature update on my Dell Latitude 7450 laptop. Update took hours to complete. However, after login in, we found all the exe and com file extensions are broken. From notepad, task manager to Command prompt are not working. Tried all possible ways to restore the file associations thorough the recovery startup page, but did not help, until completely uninstall all quality and feature updates. 24H2 is still matured till this day, i believe. Please let me know if there is a workaround on this issue or a patch is available addressing this issue. Thank you.I want to turn off or hide the draft with copilot dingbat that follows my cursor around in MS Word.
I have seen a few articles on this website, and I know it's not possible but I'm going to ask anyway. For reference this is what I'm referring to: It's more I find the little thing following me around on my screen to be annoying and distracting, I've managed to hide or disable anything related to copilot on my system except this little dingbat. When a new document is open you get a little message that says "Select the icon or press Alt + i to draft with copilot" It would be nice if I could hide that as well, yes copilot is a *feature*, and I don't care about it. I also want to hide the paste with copilot and just used the local paste options that were built into previous versions of word. I suspect that there is a copilot dingbat that is stored somewhere on my system, possibly in a font, and as I have already made a few detrimental modifications to my operating system registry, I'm not wary of messing up my computer any more than it could be. The only saving grace I have at the moment is there is an issue with my account, so any accidental triggering of the feature causes it to crap out. (So long as I don't accidentally press the 'fix account" button) I know that if it was easy to turn off there would be a button for it, I know Microsoft probably wants us to use this feature because it means more data for them to collect, an I'm disappointed in the loss of user agency that's resulted from this rollout, and there's a spike in animosity towards AI in general.
Magnifier starts tiny in the corner
I have poor vision and I regularly use the Magnifier tool on my Windows 11 desktop. I went to Accessibility > Magnifier and made these my settings: When I start my computer, I want the Magnifier to be minimized by default. I got it working on a different desktop of mine, but on this one the magnifier starts in this small, miniwindow in the corner. To get it to this point, I set up my Regedit to these values: What I want is that when I start the computer the magnifier tool is open and already minimized so I can use the hot keys to start zooming right away, but the small window means I have to find and close it every time. I have it working on my other desktop, so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
