Employee onboarding is often a mess of spreadsheets, emails, and forgotten tasks. IT forgets to ship the laptop. HR forgets to send the benefits package. The manager forgets to schedule the welcome lunch. Microsoft Lists is the perfect tool to fix this process because it isn’t just a list—it’s a database that can trigger automation.…
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Microsoft 365 Secure Score: Top Recommendations for Small Business
If you log into the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, you’ll see a big percentage number on your dashboard. That is your Secure Score. For many small business admins, this number sits comfortably (and dangerously) around 20%. Microsoft recommends getting it above 65%. The Secure Score isn’t just a gamified metric; it’s a prioritized list of…
Power Automate Tutorial: Save Email Attachments to SharePoint (with Conditions)
One of the most common requests in any IT department is: “Can we stop saving email attachments manually?” Whether it’s invoices from vendors, reports from automated systems, or project files from clients, manual filing is prone to error and incredibly boring. Fortunately, Power Automate makes this trivial to solve. In this guide, we will build…
Microsoft Loop: Practical Use Cases for Modern Project Management
Project management has evolved. It’s no longer just about static Gantt charts and endless email threads. In the modern hybrid workplace, collaboration needs to be fluid, real-time, and accessible across all the apps you already use. Enter Microsoft Loop, a transformative app that is changing how teams think about project co-creation. If you’ve dismissed Loop…
Windows 11 Kiosk Mode: Multi-App Configuration via XML
Setting up a “Single App” Kiosk in Windows 11 is easy via the Settings menu. But what if you need a library PC, a frontline worker station, or a lobby guest PC that needs access to three specific apps? The GUI won’t help you there. You need the Assigned Access XML configuration. This guide covers…
Excel Performance Showdown: XLOOKUP vs VLOOKUP on Large Datasets
For decades, VLOOKUP was the king of Excel functions. It was the first “advanced” formula many of us learned. But in 2019, Microsoft released XLOOKUP, promising to be the “one function to rule them all.” We know XLOOKUP is more flexible—it defaults to exact match, searches left-to-right and right-to-left, and handles errors gracefully. But is…
Solved: Windows 11 Printer Error 0x0000011b (GPO and Registry Fix)
In late 2021, Microsoft released a security patch to fix “PrintNightmare,” a vulnerability that let hackers take over servers via the Print Spooler. The patch worked, but it had a side effect: It broke network printing for millions of businesses. If you try to connect to a shared printer and get Error 0x0000011b, your computer…
Registry Fix: Remove Get Genuine Office / There is a problem with your license Banner
You have a legal license. You pay Microsoft every month. Yet, every time you open Excel, you get a giant yellow bar: “GET GENUINE OFFICE. There is a problem with your license.” This is a known bug where the Microsoft “connected experience” service thinks you are pirating software, even when you aren’t. It often happens…
Deep Dive: Fixing the Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin Login Loop
Sometimes, Office breaks so badly that reinstalling it doesn’t help. You click “Sign In,” the window flashes white, and then closes immediately. No error code. No loop. Just… nothing. This is almost always a corruption of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Token Broker, specifically the package Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin. Since Office 365 now uses Windows 10/11 API…
How to Fix “Shared Computer Activation” Licensing Token Errors (VDI/RDS)
In Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments, Microsoft 365 Apps must be deployed using Shared Computer Activation (SCA). This allows multiple users to log into the same server and use Office with their own license. However, a common and frustrating error occurs when the Licensing Token fails to roam or renew…