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We run more than a dozen sites with nearly all of the configured the same way but one of our sites kept erroring out with “WordPress JetPack Error Updating Settings – FetchNetworkError” when we were trying to change settings in JetPack. We suspect this error is related to our use Read more…
There are several WordPress plugins that will break your website if they are disabled. Once disabled, you are likely in a catch-22 situation in that you cannot activate them because the site is broken and the site is broken because you cannot activate them. In our case, we took down Read more…
If you are using Office 365 Microsoft Bookings and want to setp payments processing to PayPal Stripe, this video will show you how. Microsoft Bookings will take payments are available in Canada, the United States and Mexico today but will be global in the coming months. Set up The Office Read more…
In this video we explain how to set Office 365 Pro Plus (Office 2016, Office 2019) to run on a kiosk by using Office Shared Activation. We also also show how to verify it. Shared Office Activation lets you to deploy Office 365 ProPlus to computers that are accessed by Read more…
When starting an Office 365 Pro Plus (Office 2016, Office 2019) product like Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook you may be prompted to log in. At that point you may see: Sorry, another account from your organization is already signed in on this computer There are two ways to Read more…
PROBLEM: For several years we have uninstalled Office using a command like: \\cal-s2\office365$\Office365ProPlus\setup.exe /uninstall ProPlus /config \\cal-s2\office365$\uninstall-Office365ProPlus.xml but it now errors out with: Office Deployment Tool SETUP [mode] [path] SETUP /download [path to configuration file] SETUP /configure [path to configuration file] SETUP /packager [path to configuration file] [output path] SETUP /customize Read more…
Watch this short video of Microsoft announcing Project xCloud and remember this was from Oct 2018. They explain how they are adding some hardware to their Azure data-centers to allow XBox One games to stream to any device including something as lowly as an Android cell (and yes that is Read more…
If you are having problems with Azure Storage Explorer there are several things you need to do to reset it back to factory:
Azure Storage Explorer is Microsoft’s tool to directly access files in Azure Storage. It is still relatively new and it has problems from time to time including the infamous “Cannot Read Property ‘ConnectionString’ of Undefined” 1: Fix Azure Storage Explorer Cannot Read Property ‘ConnectionString’: For most people the solution is Read more…
If you are considering using Azure Storage via Azure File Sync or Azure File Share, you need to know how fast files transfer. To figure this out we setup Azure storage shares in Toronto, San Antonio, California and Ireland than ran some tests. Specifically, we used Azure File Sync which moves Read more…
If you are using Azure File Shares you will find connection errors on various Operating Systems and configurations. This article is designed to tell you what you need to know quickly. Azure File Share Requirements: SMB3 : You need to be on Windows 8.1 or above or Windows Server 2012 Read more…
If you are working with Azure and other Azure administrators cannot see your work, the problem is likely permissions. In this video we show how to grant admin rights to other Azure admins: Log into portal.azure.com as the administrator you created the changes in Click ALL SERVICES and find SUBSCRIPTIONS Click Read more…
If you are using Azure Storage Sync and want to remove a on-premises server you may be tempted to just DELETE it from the the SYNC GROUP, but that will not do the trick. If you want to deregister / unregister an on-prem server from Azure Storage Sync you have Read more…
If you are new to Azure, the wide variety of pricing can be overwhelming (for us too!), so we reviewed the numbers to come up with some simplified calculations. Yes, we know these are oversimplifications but if you just need to wrap your head around the scale, these metrics should Read more…
The instructions and video below assume you know very little about Azure and have nothing but a Windows Server 2016 (or 2012R2 or 2019) server. In case you don’t already know, Azure Storage lets you create a real UNC share on to an Azure cloud disk, kind of like what Read more…
If you have previously accepted an invitation to join a Team as a “Guest” from outside your organization, it is far from obvious how to remove that account when you are done with it. To remove an unwanted Guest account in Teams: Surf to https://myapps.microsoft.com Click you icon in the Read more…