Uncategorized Search issues in SharePoint Written by luke August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Sometimes, search doesn’t work as you expect in SharePoint (one example is multi-line text fields – and a list of crawled properties is at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-search-schema). In particular with Lists, some column types aren’t supported OOTB. But there is a way to get searching for all columns using managed properties. The process is simple enough: Setup […] Uncategorized Receiving and managing feedback Written by luke January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I’ve been reflecting on the process of receiving and managing feedback. It can sometimes be a challenge to receive feedback and not to take it personally. In addition, the level of difficultly in obtaining feedback can increase considerably if people are under stress. During these times its most important to ensure people feel heard and […] Uncategorized Coordinating interviews Written by luke January 19, 2022May 26, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked When we undertake staff consultation, it’s sometimes difficult to align calendars between interviewers and particpants. To make this process easier, we use Microsoft Bookings (hidden in the bundle of goodies you get with most Office 365 licences). I like Bookings because: Participants can choose a time that suits them Participants can also easily reschedule or […] Systems Setting up Microsoft Remote Help Written by luke January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Microsoft Remote Help is currently in Preview and offers an improved way for people in your organisation to offer and provide help to others. It’s a bit like Quick Assist with some added features. I like it because it provides: An opportunity to focus on a Microsoft stack, A way for anyone within your organisation […] Uncategorized Deploy the Company Portal Written by luke December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Company Portal is an important part of endpoint managed devices in a Microsoft ecosystem. It provides an entry point for users to: access additional apps that are authorised and might be useful to install access support manage their device The Company Portal is an app installed from the Microsoft Store for Business. The process […] Uncategorized Setting up Remote Help Written by luke December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Microsoft have released a new remote help solution (currently in preview) and this is something that we hope may: Make it easier for us to connect to remote computers and provide direct one-on-one support Replace Teamviewer in the longer term. We really like Teamviewer but Remote Help would further our guiding principles of Microsoft first. […] Project Web App Reporting and PWA Written by luke December 12, 2021December 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I had all sorts of trouble trying to get the Project Web App standard reporting (ie Excel sheets supplied OOTB that use an Odata connection to extract data from PWA) working. I tried a lot of things including enabling the Project Web App Permission for Excel Web App Refresh site collection feature on the PWA […] Windows Virtual Desktop User locked out of RemoteApp Written by luke December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked We had an issue today where a user got locked out of the RemoteApp that they would normally access without issue. They got an error message that read: As a security precaution, the user account has been locked because there were too many logon attempts or password change attempts. Wait a while before trying again, […] Project Web App More on PWA Written by luke November 25, 2021November 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I am really getting into how Project Web App (PWA) could be the central place that we could run projects and keep a track of the many antics of the team. Here is some more that I have learned. Please note that this information relates to the Project Online version of PWA. Licencing I’ve been […] Project Web App Setting up PWA Written by luke November 24, 2021January 14, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Project Web App (PWA) is a part of Project Online (and Project Server – although not the focus of this post) and our intention is to use it for: Overall project tracking and reporting Timesheeting We may decide to use more features of this down the track. PWA is attractive as it is flexible, extensible […] Uncategorized Setting up Zabbix server Written by luke November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Check system requirements https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/installation/requirements Create LAMP stack on AWS Lightsail instance – do this manually. Don’t use a LAMP package (bitnami) as this does not work: Assign static IP Using your domain host, assign an A record for the domain that you’ll use for Zabbix server, pointing to the static IP in step 1. Install […] Uncategorized System monitoring Written by luke November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Further along our overall strategy of either 1) making better use of our Microsoft subscriptions, or 2) using open source, we have opted to use Zabbix for system monitoring. It’s extensive in functionality and comes with heaps of monitoring templates out of the box. The architecture we use for system monitoring and alerting includes: A […]
Uncategorized Search issues in SharePoint Written by luke August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Sometimes, search doesn’t work as you expect in SharePoint (one example is multi-line text fields – and a list of crawled properties is at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-search-schema). In particular with Lists, some column types aren’t supported OOTB. But there is a way to get searching for all columns using managed properties. The process is simple enough: Setup […]
Uncategorized Receiving and managing feedback Written by luke January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I’ve been reflecting on the process of receiving and managing feedback. It can sometimes be a challenge to receive feedback and not to take it personally. In addition, the level of difficultly in obtaining feedback can increase considerably if people are under stress. During these times its most important to ensure people feel heard and […]
Uncategorized Coordinating interviews Written by luke January 19, 2022May 26, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked When we undertake staff consultation, it’s sometimes difficult to align calendars between interviewers and particpants. To make this process easier, we use Microsoft Bookings (hidden in the bundle of goodies you get with most Office 365 licences). I like Bookings because: Participants can choose a time that suits them Participants can also easily reschedule or […]
Systems Setting up Microsoft Remote Help Written by luke January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Microsoft Remote Help is currently in Preview and offers an improved way for people in your organisation to offer and provide help to others. It’s a bit like Quick Assist with some added features. I like it because it provides: An opportunity to focus on a Microsoft stack, A way for anyone within your organisation […]
Uncategorized Deploy the Company Portal Written by luke December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Company Portal is an important part of endpoint managed devices in a Microsoft ecosystem. It provides an entry point for users to: access additional apps that are authorised and might be useful to install access support manage their device The Company Portal is an app installed from the Microsoft Store for Business. The process […]
Uncategorized Setting up Remote Help Written by luke December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Microsoft have released a new remote help solution (currently in preview) and this is something that we hope may: Make it easier for us to connect to remote computers and provide direct one-on-one support Replace Teamviewer in the longer term. We really like Teamviewer but Remote Help would further our guiding principles of Microsoft first. […]
Project Web App Reporting and PWA Written by luke December 12, 2021December 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I had all sorts of trouble trying to get the Project Web App standard reporting (ie Excel sheets supplied OOTB that use an Odata connection to extract data from PWA) working. I tried a lot of things including enabling the Project Web App Permission for Excel Web App Refresh site collection feature on the PWA […]
Windows Virtual Desktop User locked out of RemoteApp Written by luke December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked We had an issue today where a user got locked out of the RemoteApp that they would normally access without issue. They got an error message that read: As a security precaution, the user account has been locked because there were too many logon attempts or password change attempts. Wait a while before trying again, […]
Project Web App More on PWA Written by luke November 25, 2021November 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I am really getting into how Project Web App (PWA) could be the central place that we could run projects and keep a track of the many antics of the team. Here is some more that I have learned. Please note that this information relates to the Project Online version of PWA. Licencing I’ve been […]
Project Web App Setting up PWA Written by luke November 24, 2021January 14, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Project Web App (PWA) is a part of Project Online (and Project Server – although not the focus of this post) and our intention is to use it for: Overall project tracking and reporting Timesheeting We may decide to use more features of this down the track. PWA is attractive as it is flexible, extensible […]
Uncategorized Setting up Zabbix server Written by luke November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Check system requirements https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/installation/requirements Create LAMP stack on AWS Lightsail instance – do this manually. Don’t use a LAMP package (bitnami) as this does not work: Assign static IP Using your domain host, assign an A record for the domain that you’ll use for Zabbix server, pointing to the static IP in step 1. Install […]
Uncategorized System monitoring Written by luke November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Further along our overall strategy of either 1) making better use of our Microsoft subscriptions, or 2) using open source, we have opted to use Zabbix for system monitoring. It’s extensive in functionality and comes with heaps of monitoring templates out of the box. The architecture we use for system monitoring and alerting includes: A […]
