Turn on caller announcements in Teams meetings
We have turned off announcements of callers joining or leaving calls by default. These announcements can be very disruptive to larger meetings like classes, wor...
Author: Geoff
Sr. System Administrator at the University of Vermont
Manage Teams meeting transcripts
I received a question from a client who wanted both to use the live transcript capability of a Teams meeting, but also to delete the transcript from the meeting...
Capturing MS Whiteboard in Teams meeting recording
Teams meeting recordings don't capture whiteboard content when the whiteboard is shared within the Teams meeting window. To work around this issue, you can open...
Embedding a Microsoft Form
Adding a Microsoft form by editing the HTML directly:
Problems accessing Teams recordings
We’ve been seeing problems where students have trouble accessing the recordings for a class meeting even when the permissions on that recording indicate t...
Can’t change meeting organizer
There’s no way to modify or update the organizer of an existing Microsoft Outlook or Teams meeting. The organizer is the person (or account) that created ...
Change Modern Windows Event Log settings with PowerShell
I may be late to the party, but I just found the cmlets I need to update the properties of modern Windows event logs. The Limit-EventLog cmdlet only works with ...
Convert Active Directory AccountExpires attribute
I wrote a quick function to convert the AccountExpires attribute from the Long Integer value to a DateTime object or a string object of “!! Never !!”...
Find all hidden network shares
I have a Windows file server with thousands of shares. Occasionally, create hidden shares for data migration or other administrative tasks. How do you find thes...
Preventing Petya ransomware with Group Policy
This post and this twitter thread describe a mechanism to prevent the latest ransomware cyber attack from running. It involves creating 1 (or 3) files with a s...