Month: April 2020

Add an event or reminder to your calendar right from the taskbar. On the taskbar, select the date and time, then enter your details in the text box that says. Add an event or reminder.

With Windows 10 and OneDrive, you can keep your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders automatically backed up with OneDrive. In a case you lose your documents, yuo can restore them fro mOneDrive quickly.. On the right side of the taskbar, select OneDrive  > More  > Settings. On the AutoSave tab, select Update folders and specify which folders you’d like to automatically sync.

Q: The WFH user has one monitor at home computer and two monitors in the office computer. How can she access the second monitor of the remote Desktop?

A: She may have many options. Try this first.

1. Hold Tab+Alt keys together and release Tab key. Now, select the application you want to work on.

Then you can use Alt+Space, and select ‘Move’.

2. Hold Alt key, continue pressing tab key until you see the application you want to work on. Release both keys.

They are many other suggestions online. Quoted here:

You can either move your application like the above answer mentions

(alt+tab) – to select the application

(alt+space) – to open options

(m) – to start moving

this will not work if the application is already fullscreen. In that case,

use (alt+space) and (R) to restore the application

and then use (alt+space) and (m) combination to start moving

Another way (not sure if this will work on < windows 10) is to use

win+shift+ctrl+(left/right) after selecting the application

Call the main number.

When the greeting plays, press 9

Enter the extension number of the voicemail box you want to check

Enter the password for that VM box followed by #.

Or try this one.

Call your company mail phone number and enter your extension.

Wait until the voicemail prompt comes up. When you hear the voicemail greeting, hit * key.

Enter your voicemail password and check message.

You can configure Mitel Connect or on Mitel Connect Director to forward the call to your mobile phone. Here is how.

Administrator can setup in Mitel Connect Director

1. in ROUTING>PHONES, enter mobile phone info.

2. In ROUTING>RING ME, check options “when my Availability state is”

and if enabling Simultaneously ring

3. In ROUTING>AVAILABILITY STATE, check the Call forward condition.

The user can setup in Mitel Connect

1. Click on Connect and select Settings.

2. Assuming you want to simultaneously ring on both office phone and mobile phone, and 5 ring before incoming calls are routed to voicemail.

3. Assume you are out of the office and don’t want to answer the phone.

Please view this step by step video:

1. Run gpedit.msc on the domain controller to open Local Group Policy
2. Nagivate to Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Local Policies\Security Options
3. Edit the setting Interactive logon: Prompt user to change password before expiration and specify a reasonable number of days, such as 14.
4. Users, including those logged in via Remote Desktop, will receive a notification prior to their password expiring.

With Windows 2012 or above, you have an option to configure RD Web Access for a remote user to change their password (current or an expired one). To enable the remote password change option, Go to the configured RD Web Access role. Open the IIS Manager console, navigate to servername –> Sites –> Default Web Site –> RDWeb –> Pages and open the section Application Settings. In the right pane, find PasswordChangeEnabled parameter and change its value to true.

Now, you can test by changing the password.

Situation: The client find an IP address has a high concoction counts. They would like to know the hostname.

Troubleshooting: Based on the IP range, it is VPN client. Please refer to this post to find the hostname.

Where and how to check VPN session in GloablProtect