August 14

How to Download and install new Teams for a single computer

To install new Teams on a single computer with many users, follow these steps:

  1. Download the .exe installer. If you have downloaded this file previously confirm you have the latest version by comparing the properties on each file.
  2. Open the Command Prompt as an Admin.
  3. At the prompt enter: .\teamsbootstrapper.exe -p
  4. A success or fail status displays.

command line prompt feedback

Here is the original link from Microsoft.

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August 14

How to fix can’t sign into office 365 desktop apps on Windows 10?

Please try the following:

Fully exit out any Office 365 APPs first.

  1.  Log off word account and log back in
  2.  Remove all the office 365 apps credentials in Windows Credentials

If all failed, please try:

close all office apps

Go to the AAD identity folder in :  C:\Users<Username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin_cw5n1h2txyewy\Settings

Rename Settings.dat to settings.datold

Go to  C:\Users<Username>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\TokenBroker\

Rename folder Accounts to accounts-old

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August 14

Adobe Acrobat Slow to Save

 Try the following:

  • Adobe Acrobat>Edit>Preferences>Security(Enhanced)>Disable “protected View” Disable all the security check box 

  • Go to Edit>Preferences>General>Uncheck show online storage when opening files and >Uncheck show online storage

  • Launch Acrobat>click Edit>Preferences>Documents>uncheck the box next to Save As optimizes for Fast Web View>OK

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August 22

How to use Powershell to Export All Distribution Groups and Members to CSV

Create a temp fold at c:\ called c:\temp and run the following script


$Groups = Get-DistributionGroup
$Groups | ForEach-Object {
$group = $_.Name
$members = ''
Get-DistributionGroupMember $group | ForEach-Object {
        If($members) {
              $members=$members + ";" + $_.Name
           } Else {
              $members=$_.Name
           }
  }
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
      GroupName = $group
      Members = $members
     }
} | Export-CSV "C:\temp\Distribution-Group-and-Members.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8
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July 12

How to find AD users Password Expiration Date and find all users with password never expires

Find AD users Password Expiration Date

Get-ADUser -filter {Enabled -eq $True -and PasswordNeverExpires -eq $False} -Properties DisplayName, msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed | Select-Object -Property Displayname,@{Name=”Expiration Date”;Expression={[datetime]::FromFileTime($_.”msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed”)}}

Find all users with password never expires

get-aduser -filter * -properties Name, PasswordNeverExpires | where { $_.passwordNeverExpires -eq “true” } | where {$_.enabled -eq “true”}| Format-Table -Property Name, PasswordNeverExpires -AutoSize

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