GPO: installation of definitions for Office

Through this article, I will show you how to set up the necessary files to set up Office 2016 using GPOs in an Active Directory environment. It is possible to add settings to the Group Policy system by adding ADMX and ADML files. The explanations below can be applied to any definitions you may download …

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Outlook 2010+: change location of OST file

In this tutorial, I will explain how to change the location of the OST file and more specifically to put it on a network share. Outlook is installed on an RDS farm and email accounts are in “online” mode. Therefore there is no data file on the server. Users complain of repeated slowness and crashes. …

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Veeam: File Recovery from Volume with Deduplication

Windows deduplication issue When you want to restore a file from a volume with deduplication enabled, you get the following error messages: Veeam : Copying data from deduplicated volumes requires that the console is installed on Windows 2012 R2 with data deduplication feature enabled. Windows: Error 0x80070780: The system cannot access the file. Cause To …

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Rename an Active Directory domain

The following procedure shows you how to rename an Active Directory domain. 1. Open a command window in “administrator” mode and enter the following command which will generate a Domainlist.xml file : 2. Edit the xml file, changing your old domain to the new one: In the file, I modified rdr-it.intra to rdr-it.com. 3. Enter …

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GLPI: Collector – Automatic ticket creation

The collectors in GLPI allow the creation of tickets automatically in the assistance part by sending an e-mail. A user sends an email to [email protected]. GLPI will use the automatic tasks to retrieve the email in the box and create a ticket in the helpdesk. Prerequisites Have the PHP IMAP extension enabled. Have configured the …

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Windows 10: install Windows Terminal

In this “how to” tutorial, I will explain how to install the Windows Terminal application available on Windows 10. Before launching into the “technical” part, I will first introduce you to Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal is an application which groups together all the command windows (CMD, PowerShell, WSL) in a single application and which allows …

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WordPress: install a theme

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install a theme on the WordPress CMS. Before starting, the “technical” explanations, I will explain to you what a theme if you are new to WordPress. In general, a WordPress theme will define the visual / design of a site. There are thousands (free or paid) that …

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Export / Import a scheduled task

In this tutorial, I will tell you how to export and import a scheduled task. This tutorial applies to both Windows Server and the Desktop version (Windows 10). To illustrate this tutorial, I will export a scheduled task that runs a PowerShell script that allows restarting a computer. The scheduled task runs the ps-restartcomputer.ps1 script …

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Ubuntu : install the FusionInventory agent

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install the FusionInventory agent on Ubuntu in order to bring it up in your GLPI inventory. Installation is done from the command line. Installation of prerequisites To function correctly, it is necessary to install several packages first. Enter the command line below to install all dependencies : …

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PowerShell and network drives

In this tutorial on “scripting”, I suggest you discover or see how to manage network drives with PowerShell and you will see that it is not that “simple”. In the tutorial: Network Drive Mapping: GPO and Script, I explain how to map a network drive with Group Policy using and how to do it with …

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