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Find Microsoft 365 Users MFA Status

To quickly find whether individual users have MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) configured:

  • Log in to Microsoft Office 365 Admin Portal > All admin centres > Microsoft Entra (or just go there directly: https://entra.microsoft.com)
  • Identity > Users > All Users > [click on a user] > Authentication Methods.
  • If at the top you see the message shown below, switch to the new experience.
  • If the user has MFA enabled, it will look something like this:

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Switch to Transparent Background in Affinity Photo and Affinity Design

If you need to change an existing image's background to transparent here is what to do. To be clear, we are talking about multi-layer images, not removing the background from single-layer photos.

Affinity Photo

Document > Transparent Background 

Document > Transparent Background

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Disable individual Wordpress plugin updates (WPBakery)

I manage a few WordPress websites and one of them comes with a theme that incorporates the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. The theme is well supported and developers regularly release updates, however, there inevitably is a delay between WPBakery updates and the theme developer updates.

Until developers run their tests and release a theme update, we get not wanted notifications and see unnecessary notices about the pending update in the WordPress backend:

WPBakery Page Builder Update Notice

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PC failing to resume from sleep after Nvidia driver update

Computer Screen

Issue

Windows 11 desktop PC suddenly started to fall to resume from the sleep mode. Upon waking up, the fans would start, the screen briefly flashes, but then nothing happens, the screen stays black and the computer is not responsive. The only fix is a hard reboot.

After checking system logs I found that the day before the issue started, the PC had a driver update for its Nvidia GeForce 970 video card to version 546.17 (not sure what version it was running before the update).

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