Mac Tip: Full screen browser

 I accidentally found out that Control+Command+F makes the browser full screen. The same as F11 in Windows.

The more you know.

You no longer have access to Planner

I had a fun one recently, I was looking through the different things I could do to a Planner (Microsoft Tasks) and accidentally Left the plan. This resulted in me being kicked from the Team (one where I was the owner) and with me, came the files... All the files started to be deleted one by one, they went to the recycle bin so they were easy enough to be restored, but weird anyway.

So, you accidentally left a Plan and now that you're part of the Team again, you get the following message


Going through planner online gives you the option to request to join the Plan, but those requests go no where.
No one that is currently part of the plan can add you, and once leaving and rejoining the plan, it says you're part of the plan, even though you can access.

How I fixed it:

Go to the Sharepoint of the Team.
Go to Conversations, this will open the Outlook Web App for the Team.
Click the 3 dots and go to Planner


For me, this opened up Planner web and restored my access.
I was also able to access the Planner tab in the Team.

You can't add planner to a private channel in teams! Or can you?

Spoiler alert: you can.

Once the planner/tasks group is created, get a link to the planner/tasks and make a website link in the private channel.

Elegant? no
Effective? yes?

Control Private Channel Creation in Microsoft Teams

Well, private channels can get out of hand.
I had some employees make private channels, leave them, and it resulted in orphaned channels that no one could access. Microsoft will probably come out with powershells to take ownership, but as of now, I can't find anything.
So...
Like all admin solutions, I want to take it away.
The hammer approach is to remove employees from team ownership.
But what if you (IT) don't want to manage every teams members? Which is a PITA.
Teams Policies!
In the MS Teams admin center
Teams>Teams Policies
There it is! Create Private channels. I'll just turn that off. I'm an admin, so I should still be able to make private channels.
Turned it off, tested making a private channel, good to go.

BUT WAIT... there's more.

Any O365 change takes 24hours to do anything. In 24 hours I couldn't make private channels either. DOH!

So I can create a new one, but then I'd have to add EVERY PERSON TO THE POLICY...
Or...

What worked for me:
I left the Global policy as follows
Custom policy:no
Discover private teams:Off
Create private channels:Off

Then I created a new policy
Custom:yes
Discover private teams:Off
Create private channels:On

Then I added myself and the other admins to the new policy, 24 long hours later everything is working well.
I can create private channels, and no one else can, unless I say they can. Because I am the admin, and that's how it works.

If you're reading this, I assume you have already completed this step, but if not, here is the document to restrict group creation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide

Slow NAS with Ubuntu and mapping a sabma share to fix it

Installed TerraMaster F4-210 with Refurb Hitachi 7k4000 drives in Raid 0, so it should have been pretty fast.
When connecting to the drive and moving files, I was sitting at about 50MB/sec, a few spikes to 60, and some drops to 40. While disappointed, I saw people getting more like 30MB/sec, so I figured that's all I'd get.
Moving on, I knew that I needed to have the NAS mount on boot for my Plex server, so I looked into that. I used a Samba share, using this website's directions:
https://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/19/auto-mounting-a-samba-share-in-linux/
sudo mkdir /[name]
 

My fstab entry:

(remember, sudo gedit to get to the graphical text editor to edit this file)
//[SAMBA IP/FOLDER] /{DIRECTORY] cifs credentials=/[PATH TO CREDENTIAL FILE],uid=1000,gid=1000 0

for the credential file, create a doc with:
username=[USERNAME]
password=[PASSWORD]

Note:
Install cifs with sudo apt install cifs-utils

Cool, this works.

BUT...

When I went to transfer files to my NAS, I jumped to 75MB/sec steady. Some spikes to 88MB/sec as well.

Windows update on Windows Terminal server (Powershell)

This is done on a core server 2016
in powershell

Install print services:

install-windowsfeature print-services

enable the print spooler:

set-service spooler -startuptype automatic

start the print spooler:
net start spooler

if you can't pint the print server, you may have to tweak the domain firewall. Or turn it off with:

set-netfirewallprofile -profile domain -enabled false

Then manage the printers through another server that runs a GUI because you're not a complete masochist.