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The week of December 14 will go down in history, marking the first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine injections in the U.S., just days after the FDA granted emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine to fight coronavirus. On Tuesday, the first shots of the new vaccine were administered in New York, which was ravaged by the outbreak earlier this year.
With many employees now working remote, the situation may arise where you need to copy files from a remote computer to a location where they can be accessed by IT staff. When a computer is not remote, this is usually done by just accessing the computer’s admin share, but this is not always possible when a computer is remote.
This post will detail a method of using the ConfigMgr scripts feature to copy directories to a Azure Files. This post will detail setting up the Azure Files share, and provide a sample script to use to copy the files. You will need ConfigMgr with a CMG setup to complete this post.
If you’re just starting your journey in Microsoft 365, or if you’ve never set it up, retention policies are very important. These policies are important to preserve data should it be deleted. Without a retention policy in-place, data will be unrecoverable after it’s removed from a user’s recycling bin or trash.
One important difference in the way that M365 handles retention versus some other cloud providers is that retention policies still apply after an account has been deleted. That means that data retained by a retention policy will stay after the owner’s account is removed.
2020 highlighted the supreme value of showing kindness and understanding to others. We have faced many of the same burdens together, yet alone. As many states and countries around the world enter into a winterized second wave of lockdowns to mitigate the devastation of a new strain of COVID-19, it’s fair to say that remote work as well as mental health challenges are here to stay.
The start of a New Year is commonly marked with resolutions of renewed focus to areas of life we have neglected, and as businesses we have an opportunity to do just that. In this two-part series on the WME blog, we offer some ideas for promoting and supporting the emotional wellness of your employees while they continue to work remotely through the coming winter.
