Erwin Bierens

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How to enable Viva Connections desktop!

In this guide i will show you the steps for enabling Microsoft Viva Connections Desktop! This is one of the four Viva Modules The Viva Connections for desktop experience, combines the power of your intelligent SharePoint intranet with chat and collaboration tools in Microsoft Teams. Viva Connections enables users to discover and search relevant content, sites, and news from across the organization right from the Team’s app bar. Viva Connections also allows you to incorporate your organization’s brand and identity directly in Teams. Continue reading

Cheatsheet - Forever

2021-03-30 1 min read Cheatsheet     "Erwin Bierens"
Forever Cheatsheet A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever). [+] Installation You could install forever using npm like this: sudo npm install -g forever [+] Commands And then start your application with: forever server.js Or as a service: forever start server.js Forever restarts your app when it crashes or stops for some reason. To restrict restarts to 5 you could use: forever -m5 server. Continue reading

Cheatsheet - kismet

2021-03-30 1 min read Cheatsheet     "Erwin Bierens"
Kismet Cheatsheet Kismet is a wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework. Kismet works with Wi-Fi interfaces, Bluetooth interfaces, some SDR (software defined radio) hardware like the RTLSDR, and other specialized capture hardware. [+] Commands Turn Interface down ifconfig wlan0 down Set monitor mode iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor Set interface up ifconfig wlan0 up Start listening for all nearby beacon frames to get target BSSID and airodump-ng wlan0 --band abg Continue reading

Cheatsheet - snmpwalk

2021-03-30 1 min read Cheatsheet     "Erwin Bierens"
SNMPWalk Cheatsheet SNMP protocol provides useful features to monitor and configure network and server systems remotely. Monitoring features are much popular than configuration. snmpwalk is a function provided by SNMP protocol to get metrics of remote system in bulk. [+] Get All OIDS We will first look the simplest usage of the snmpwalk command. We just provide minimum options to the snmpwalk. We will provide following options as minimum -v 2c version information 2 community -c the public or private secret IPADDRESS Continue reading

Cheatsheet - Wireshark

2021-03-30 2 min read Cheatsheet     "Erwin Bierens"
Wireshark Cheatsheet Wireshark is a network packet analyzer. A network packet analyzer will try to capture network packets and tries to display that packet data as detailed as possible. You could think of a network packet analyzer as a measuring device used to examine what’s going on inside a network cable, just like a voltmeter is used by an electrician to examine what’s going on inside an electric cable (but at a higher level, of course). Continue reading

Using a Call Queue in your Teams channel

2021-03-30 2 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"
Collaborative calling enables you to connect a call queue to a channel in Teams. Users can collaborate and share information in the channel while taking calls in the queue. This feature is ideal for scenarios such an IT helpdesks or HR hotlines. IT admins can quickly connect call queues to specific channels, and team owners can manage the settings. You will now have the possibility to use a Teams channel for your Call Queue. Continue reading

The new Poly Sync 20, does it really change the working from home experience?

2021-03-12 5 min read Microsoft Teams     "Erwin Bierens"
In January of this year (2021), Poly launched the new Sync 20 smart speakerphone. The Sync 20 is the first available version from a new series of Sync speakerphones. The Poly Sync 20 is a portable speakerphone designed for home use to make communication easier for the new form of hybrid working. To what extent does the Poly Sync 20 succeed in this, does a device like this really make a difference in the user experience? Continue reading
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