I’ve been using ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft, on and off, for around 10 years now. I originally started because I’m on a computer all day long and I started to get sore wrists. Stop sniggering at the back there. My first ergonomic keyboard was the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. I loved that thing. I …
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Another new job
It seems like every other post on this site has been about me getting a new job. But it’s only my third in six years which just goes to show I really need to post on here more. Anyway, I’ve got myself another new job. There are various reasons for me doing this. Chief among …
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Updating Exchange Distribution Lists from a CSV file
I was recently asked to create a load of distribution lists in Exchange Online. I was also asked to give the owner of the distribution list a simple method of keeping them up to date and frankly, I was more than happy to oblige with that. I have enough to do during the day, keeping …
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Aruba InstantOn AP11 Wireless Access Point
Like it did for a lot of people on the planet, life became weird in early March 2020 thanks to the Coronavirus. We had the order from the UK government to stay at home and work from home if you possibly can. Both my partner and I can do our jobs from home, so we …
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Why I Don’t Use Social Media
In today’s episode of “Who cares what you think? You’re just some weirdo on the Internet who runs a blog that no-one reads!”, I’m going to have a go at explaining why I don’t use social media. Minor spoiler, it’s not just because I’m an anti-social computer nerd. On most of the other blogging sites …
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PRTG – Flow Monitoring
I have a new favourite toy at work. It hasn’t quite overtaken ConfigMgr as my absolute favourite but it’s close. I’m having fun with it though, and that’s the main thing. Apart from, you know, its entire business function, but that’s minor, right? My new toy is called PRTG which is written by a company called …
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So, um…
Yet again, I’m going to give this thing another go. I rather stupidly let my hosting package expire a while ago and didn’t get around to archiving my site properly. I therefore lost my site and the host didn’t have a backup which isn’t unreasonable considering I wasn’t paying them any more. I’ve been a …
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Dell 13″ UltraBooks
The first few drafts of my last article touched on this but in the end, I edited it out because it was off topic. Nevertheless, this subject is worth a few words I think. As I mentioned in that article, not long after I joined my current workplace we standardised on Dell for our mobile …
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Dell Business Docking Stations
There are a few posts on this site called “The Grand(ish) Experiment” where I talk about using Dell Venue tablets with their respective docking stations, exploring their potential to replace desktop machines. The idea was that every office desk and classroom would have a docking station, teachers would have their own tablets with the software …
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Basic User Editing Script
Let’s start with a little history, it will hopefully put this script into a bit of context. When I started in my job, one of my first large projects was a change to our Office 365 tenant. When I started there, it was being managed by a system called OpenHive. The vendor that looked after …
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