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jaykeblakk shares a suggestion for organizing your documentation: "Use OneNote as a Knowledge Base! It has so many features that make using it as a KB so much easier than other forms like Word and PDF documents: Integrated graphs for excel spreadsheets or stat tracking—Copy/Paste from Excel and it will automatically paste the entire spreadsheet correctly into OneNote Built-in OCR for images posted

SoMundayn shares news about an underused Office feature: "If you go to this link and turn this on, the portal will be populated (over time) with all of your Office versions, additionally showing workstations that are behind on security updates. You don't need Intune for this either, I guess it works based on the UPNs logging into your tenant to the O365 Apps. You can then also go into 'Servicing'

A handy shortcut, compliments of j8048188: "Setting this registry key… HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Type:Dword Name: LastActiveClick Value:1 …lets you rotate between open windows of the same program by just clicking on its taskbar icon, instead of having to hover and then select the instance you want to switch to."

Career wisdom for sysadmins, compliments of HouseCravenRaw: Irreplaceable is unpromotable Documentation is king Know your exits (rollback plan, etc.) Always get a CYA Toot your own horn—modesty doesn't make money ‘No’ is a complete sentence Stability is paramount—don't aim for newest or best, aim for reliable and dependable Cattle, not pets Make sure your cattle are self-minding—the less fiddling

Silaene shares some advice for a job interview: “You want to get them talking, the more they talk about themselves or the job, the greater the rapport you build and more rose-tinted the interview will feel for them. The goal is for you to pick up on things they don't want to outright state, like recently replacing a number of engineers (means employee churn is high), lots of troubleshooting (lots