Microsoft Teams Quick Tip – Screen sharing options in Teams meetings

I wanted to take the time out to help users understand the layout and how to share their screens in Microsoft Teams Meetings.  When in a meeting and you select the Share Screen icon, you will have the following options to share your screen.   Currently, there are four options to choose from when selecting how…

Best Practices for Dynamics 365 Security Model

Today we’ll talk about Dynamics 365 (D365), role-based security, user-based security, Security Roles, and Field Security Profiles. Let’s first look into the definitions in security types. Role-based security: Roles make it easy to assign the same set of permissions to multiple users based on job function.  Role-based security allows for easier management and administration.  Role-based…

Dynamics 365 Security Role Terminologies

Security Roles define how users access different types of records.  Controlling access to data, you can modify an existing security role, copy or create security roles, and change which security roles are assigned to each Business Unit, Team or User. Security Roles privileges are cumulative, so if one security roles are set to None, and…

Building SAML connection – BlackBoard and OneLogin

It’s been a while since my last blog, and I have been thinking about starting back up for a while now.  So as I have been learning and implementing SSO and SAML, I decided I will blog about it and hopefully get back into the groove of blogging my experiences.  Anyway, let’s get started and…

PowerShell Best Practices and Style Guide

Over the years I have seen and read many different styles of PowerShell Scripts, and all users have written them to the best way they have learned how to write the script themselves.  Don’t get me wrong here, I have gone back and re-read some of my first initial scripts and wondered what the &^%$…

Enable Remote PowerShell with Group Policy

Lets set the Protocol, Service and Firewall policies. Enable Windows Remote Management Open Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) Navigate: Computer Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Remote Management (RM) > WinRM Service Open “Allow remote server management through WinRM” Enable IPv4 filter: * or 10.0.0.0-10.1.0.254, 10.2.25.0-10.2.25.255 IPv6 filter: * Configure Firewall Settings…

Error on Remote Console Reporting Services Point

Issue: First the issue was that I was unable to add the Reporting Server to my Remote ConfigMgr Console. Every time I tried to add the Reporting Services Point, I received this error:   Cause: This is due to not having the proper Certificate or not having ConfigMgr Report Server setup properly. I have created…

Updating ConfigMgr Reporting Services Site Role – Empty

While setting up our new ConfigMgr 2012 R2 Reporting Services Role, I found that the Reporting Services server instance was empty in wizard. This was the caused by not having Reporting Services setup properly on the System Center Database server.   In order to resolve this issue, I used the Reporting Services Configuration Manager console.…

Changing NIC from Public to Private

In order to get the network profile open a PowerShell windows and enter: PS C:\> Get-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias wi-fi Name : PublicProfile InterfaceAlias : Wi-Fi InterfaceIndex : 8 NetworkCategory : Public IPv4Connectivity : Internet IPv6Connectivity : Internet To change this from a Public NIC to a Private NIC, just use the PowerShell cmdlet: Set-NetConnectionProfile and identify…