Welcome to I.T. Should Just Work - a website full of technical analysis, nuggets of useful information, and the odd humorous call to the IT Help Desk.

A number of colleagues have commented how clear my picture is during Teams calls. This is how I achieve a good image.

We have 900 days until Windows Server 2012 (and 2012R2) goes End of Life. Here’s how you can use PowerShell to report back the number of days till a deadline.

Ubuntu 16.04 is going End Of Life at the end of April 2021, so without a paid-for subscription there won’t be any new security updates. We can use a couple of methods in PowerShell to list affected VMs in a tenancy.

The global pandemic of 2020 caused a lot of previously in-person events to go online. This means that even more events are now accessible to a global audience, and often at times that can fit around your work and home schedules. Here’s some upcoming tech events for May 2021.

Leading Change: Accelerate Your App and Cloud Transformation

March/April 2021

At Microsoft Ignite Spring 2021 it was announced that Windows Admin Center was now available for Azure VMs through the portal. This post covers how to configure that new feature in PowerShell.

Azure Key Vaults now enforce a Soft-Delete feature to prevent accidental deletion. This post discusses how to use Policy to control the associated retention period.

March 2021 is kicking off with the formal launch of the IT Should Just Work: Labs. These are tools and utilities, usually associated with articles on this site, which are being made available for general use.

Microsoft Teams started giving the error message Due to org policy changes, some chat and calling features are no longer available. Continue your conversation here on existing chats with contacts external to my organisation.