Having a homelab is a great way to learn new skills and test out new features without the risk of damaging a production environment. To run your homelab we will build our own home server, which will be low-power and affordable. Home servers often run ... Read moreBest Home Server build for your HomeLab

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Hyper-V is next to ESX one the most used Hypervisors to run VMs. Hyper-V is available for free, and you can install Hyper-V on Windows Server and on Windows 10 and 11, allowing you to run and manage multiple VMs on your computer. In this ... Read moreHow to Install and Configure Hyper-V

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When you have an environment with a lot of notebooks or other mobile devices that come and go, then stale DNS records are bound to happen. Stale DNS records can cause problems with name resolution, so it’s important to clean up the old DNS records, ... Read moreDNS Scavenging – Everything you need to know

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Building a Smart Bathroom Mirror was on my to-do list for a long time. I started with this project 3 years ago, but when I was almost finished, we decided to buy another house. Now 3 years later I found the time to pick the ... Read moreMaking a Smart Bathroom Mirror – Complete Guide

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When a user is deleted in Microsoft 365, the mailbox is removed as well. But what if someone still needs access to the mailbox and you forgot to share it first? Or maybe you have deleted the wrong user? In these cases, we can restore ... Read moreHow to Restore a Deleted Mailbox in Office 365

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SharePoint has limits on the size of files that users can upload and store on the platform. Which can be an issue for those who work with larger files. There are also limitations when moving data between SharePoint sites. In this article, we will look ... Read moreSharePoint File Size Limits Explained

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Deleting files and cleaning up directories can be a time-consuming task, especially when you need to perform the same task on multiple computers regularly. But with PowerShell, we can create small scripts that will delete a file quickly and efficiently by using the Remove-Item cmdlet. ... Read moreHow to Delete a File with PowerShell Remove-Item

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With Halloween coming up it’s nice to give your Microsoft Teams background a spooky Halloween feeling. You could of course style your whole room in a Halloween theme, but that might be a bit too much work. An easier option is to use one of ... Read moreBest Halloween Backgrounds for Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft has released the new version of Microsoft Teams in public preview. The version of Teams is lighter, faster, and easier to use. The performance of Teams was always a problem with the current version, it was slow and it used a lot of resources ... Read moreNew Microsoft Teams – Everything you want to know

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SharePoint Online comes with default permissions that we can choose from for the site’s owners, members, and visitors. In most cases, these permissions are more than enough, but sometimes you need to create a custom permission level in SharePoint. For example, when you want to ... Read moreHow to create Custom Permission levels in SharePoint Online

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Azure resources, like Azure Automation or Azure Virtual Machines, often need to have access to other resources. For example, when accessing the Azure AD from within a Runbook. To grant access, you usually need accounts, passwords, or certificates. But you don’t want to store this ... Read moreHow to use Azure Managed Identity

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Have you ever accidentally deleted an important document from SharePoint? Or maybe a colleague deleted something they shouldn’t have? Then there is no need to panic because we can recover the files from the SharePoint Recycle Bin. The often overlooked SharePoint Recycle Bin is a ... Read moreUsing the Sharepoint Recycle Bin, what you need to Know

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If-Else statements are the basis of any programming language, also in PowerShell. They are used to test if a condition is met, allowing you to perform different actions based on the result. Multiple conditions, if-not statements, and else-if statements give you a variety of options ... Read moreHow to use PowerShell If Else Statements

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Microsoft Teams has become in most companies the main internal communication method. So how do you let your colleagues know that you are a day or longer Out of Office in Teams? Setting an internal and/or external Out of Office message in Outlook is well-known ... Read moreHow to set Teams Out of Office

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New SharePoint sites are easily created in Microsoft 365, but sometimes a bit too easy. I often see a lot of unused SharePoint sites in SharePoint online. Users accidentally created two sites for the same project, or just wanted to test something out. So sometimes ... Read moreHow to Delete a SharePoint Site

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Microsoft Loop is a new app in Microsoft 365 that offers interactive components. The loop components allow you to work together on (task)lists, tables, or notes in a chat, email, or documents. Microsoft Loop was first announced during the Microsoft Ignite event in 2021 and ... Read moreMicrosoft Loop – What you need to know and How to use it

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Emojis are a great way to quickly react to an email or message in a personal way. We all use Emojis pretty much daily on our phones, but did you know that you can also easily use Emojis in Outlook? We can use the emojis ... Read moreHow to use Emojis in Outlook

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Microsoft LAPS can be used to manage local administrator passwords on your domain-joined devices. LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution), creates a unique and random password for each device client in your network and stored the password in the Active Directory. The advantage of Microsoft LAPS ... Read moreHow to Deploy Microsoft LAPS – Complete Guide

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Email is quite often used to remind yourself or someone else of a task that needs to be done. Now we can of course use Microsoft To Do, or your calendar. But a quick email with a couple of notes in it is often a ... Read moreHow to Schedule an Email in Outlook

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