Real World Computing

Following on from Part 1 where I talked about how to get rooms to show up in the room list, here's the next step where we extend the booking time from the default of 180 days. Why is there a limit? In most circumstances, a limit makes perfect sense. It stops employees from booking meeting rooms for years in advance and then leaving the company. In our case, it's actually fairly common to book the meeting schedule up to about 18 months into the future - so the 180 day (6 month) limit is quite restricting for us. I decided to change the limit to 730 days. Essentially two years.  The Steps I'm going to assume that you're familiar with PowerShell by now... I wasn't when I wrote Part 1 but now PowerShell is my friend. If you're unsure about how to execute the steps, please go back and check Part 1 as there's only a couple of commands at the end that are different. So, without further ado; Start PowerShell as Administrator (Local Admin Rights...

One of the odd things about Office 365 is how much you have to resort to PowerShell to get things done. That's currently the case with the Office365 Groups, a recently introduced type of group that works particularly well across all of the Office365 applications.  I've been setting a few things up with Office365 groups lately and I've had two instances where I needed to do some renames. Once was when the people who asked for the group changed their mind about the name and the other was when I wanted to rebuild an existing sharepoint site (and reuse the name). In both cases, I was able to change the name but the email address itself was greyed out.  The Solution is to use PowerShell Start Powershell by clicking Start and typing PowerShell, then Right-click on the icon and run as Administrator. In the console that appears, type; Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned This elevates some privileges. You'll need to choose Y and press enter.  Next, you...