Category: How To
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Setting your work hours in Outlook
I recently set my Skype for Business client to ring simultaneously on my computer and my cell phone. I did not, however, want it to do so all the time, and set Skype for Business to only apply the call forwarding settings during my Working hours: When I clicked the link, the popup referred to…
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Setting alternative ringing plans in Skype for Business
In the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time in meetings, and have missed incoming Skype calls because I didn’t bring my computer (I only bring my computer if it is relevant to do so, opting for pen and paper a fair bit of the time). I decided it was time to…
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Removing duplicate entries from Remote App on iPhone
It’s no secret that I use an iPhone and Apple Watch. With those in the house, adding an Apple TV to the mix made a lot of sense from an eco-system point of view. A while back, I encountered the issue that I had duplicate Apple TV entries in the Remote App on my iPhone.…
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Mapping a local folder to a Windows drive letter
A little while ago, I needed to simulate the File Explorer presentation of a network share in order to illustrate a point to a very non-technical customer of mine. Luckily, this is very easily accomplished through the use of either the subst or net use command line commands. The difference between the two commands is…
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Outlook: Mark deleted messages as read
A pet peeve of many users of Outlook is the fact that deleted messages that were unread when being deleted are counted in Deleted Items. Like the behavior when going from one unread email to another in the Reading Pane, there is a setting for this. Here’s how to change the behavior: Go to File…
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Set Outlook to only mark as read when you open an email
A while back, a customer complained that Outlook always marked emails as read when he clicked over to another email, and wanted to know if there was a setting that would change this behavior. As it turns out, there is. Here’s how you do it: Go to File -> Options Go to Mail Scroll down…
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Outlook: Disable the send without location prompt
Like many others, my work days are – to some extent – made up of meetings with others. It’s not uncommon for these meetings not to have an assigned meeting room, and I find it annoying that Outlook asks me if I want to enter a meeting location: To get around this issue, we can…
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iPhone: Using Apple Pay with facial recognition
I enabled Apple Pay on my iPhone shortly after it became available in Norway. Some time after that, however, I was pickpocketed, and got a new phone. While my previous one was one of the models with a fingerprint scanner, I replaced it with one with facial recognition. It took me a little while to…
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Deleting entries from the Run MRU List
If you’re like me, you use the run menu. A lot. One of the features I like about the run menu is that it stores your recently used commands in a list, called the Most Recently Used list (MRU for short). From time to time, I like to remove superfluous items from that list. Here’s how:…
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PowerShell: Check Remote Computer Disk Capacity
From time to time, I get tickets where one of many possible root causes may be a full disk. While accessing this information over RDP is often an option, it is rather more intrusive than needed. What’s more, I usually don’t have access to access file servers over RDP. Enter PowerShell and the get-WmiObject query!…
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Outlook: Mail merge
I have previously written about one of my many responsibilities; contacting users whose login credentials have shown up in breach lists. While the pertinent results of the breach files are delivered to me in a flat file, I use Excel’s Text to Columns feature to separate logins (usually email addresses) from the password. While this…