Nerd Journey # 189 - Capture the Intangibles with Joe Houghes (3/3) Best Practices & General IT.

I'm curious as to what tools you've ended up personally using as part of your IT duties (or 'other duties as assigned' whil. Over the years, I've done quite a few tasks that were more related to construction work than IT, and I'm sure many of you have to.

Which tools, not usually associated with IT, have you used for IT related tasks? Spiceworks Originals.

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I saw a terrible message logging into the Azure portal yesterday! 'Reduce the risk of attack.We will ask everyone in your organization to register for multifactor authentication on the Microsoft Authenticator App.SECURITY DEFAULTS WILL BE ENABLED A.

Forced multi-factor authentication Azure? Cloud Computing & SaaS.

(also if the load time in excel is the issue, just keep Excel open throughout your day.)įigure out what you're fixing in the CSVs and use Powershell to make the fixes for you. Specifically comma separated values, if you need it to be 'pretty' do it in Excel and suck it up, or convert to tab delimiters for readability's sake. The issue here is you are asking for readability in a plain text format. Is there a solution for this that doesn't involve sucking it up and being in Excel all the time?

I found a lot of references online to the now-defunct TextFX for this, and there are other plugins that handle most of what TextFX does - but it seems that this column alignment has been left out in the cold.

In many cases I really don't need to do anything that warrants opening Excel, but I do need the columns to be aligned so that it's easily human-readable (which Excel does excellently and N doesn't appear to handle at all).

I use Notepad to do a huge chunk of my day to day work, and one thing I have to deal with frequently is reading data from CSVs.

Notepad++ sort by file extension