Most Microsoft Office apps (Outlook, SharePoint, Office365, Skype for Business, etc,) allow using an Active Directory (Azure AD) photo of the currently signed-in user as the user’s avatar in their interface. In this article, we’ll show you how to use an Active Directory user’s photo as an account logon image (avatar) for a Windows user profile that appears on the Lock Screen, Welcome Screen, in the Start Menu, etc.
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How to Install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 11/10 and Windows Server
March 12, 2024Most modern Windows apps require the .NET Framework to be installed. For example, NET Framework 4.8 is installed by default on Windows 11/10 and Windows Server 2022/2019. However, some old…
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Copy Files and Folders to User Computers via GPO
March 15, 2024You can use Group Policies to copy specific files and folders to user computers in the Active Directory domain. You can place files on the Desktop, in a particular user…
Squid is probably the most known and popular open-source caching proxy server. The squid proxy server supports a lot of caching protocols (ICP, HTCP, CARP, WCCP), and allows to proxy…
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Configuring FSLogix Profile Containers on Windows Server RDS
March 16, 2024Microsoft FSLogix technology is used to manage user profiles and allows you to replace Roaming Profiles and User Profile Disks (UPD) in RDS, VDI, and Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) deployments.…
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How to Create a Self-Signed Certificate on Windows
March 12, 2024Most Windows administrators, who are familiar with PKI, know about the MakeCert.exetool, which allows to create self-signed certificates. This tool is part of the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK and Microsoft…
- Azure and Microsoft 365ExchangeMicrosoft Office
How to Manually Configure Exchange or Microsoft 365 Account in Outlook 365/2019/2016
March 17, 2024Modern versions of Outlook (starting with Outlook 2016) don’t allow you to manually configure a connection to a mailbox hosted on Exchange Server or Exchange Online (Microsoft 365). Microsoft developers…
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Fix: Saved RDP Credentials Didn’t Work on Windows
February 27, 2023The built-in Windows Remote Desktop client (mstsc.exe) allows you to save the username and password used to connect to the remote computer. Thanks to this, the user doesn’t need to…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows 11
How to Automatically Disable Wi-Fi When Ethernet is Connected
March 17, 2024If several Wi-Fi networks are available, Windows automatically selects a wireless network with better signal strength (no matter what the speed of this connection is and how many devices are…
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How to Restore Deleted EFI System Partition in Windows
March 11, 2024This article will show you how to manually restore an accidentally deleted Windows EFI boot partition on a UEFI computer. This easy way to manually re-create bootable EFI and MSR…