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How often do you see users do the following things: Write their password on a post-it and stick it on their laptop or monitor Add a +1 when they need to reset their password for example they go from P@ssw0rd01 to P@ssw0rd02. That really made it harder. Create a default password like "P@ssw0rd" or "123456789" Yeah they sometimes add a 123 to make it "Difficult" haha Now to be honest now a days you need a lot of passwords to login into all those services on the www. Keeping track of them is a difficult task. Writing them down in a notepad and storing it on your computer is NOT the way to go! To make life easier for them users got "creative". For example they use the company name + a number to keep their password. For example "AcmeCompany123". Once they had to change their password they would make it "AcmeCompany234" As an IT admin preventing the use of these passwords is something that is hard to do. You could train t...

In  Microsoft Forms GA - New Forms  I discussed the New Forms functionality and what you can do with it. In part 2 I want to talk about the Quiz functionality of Microsoft New Quiz When creating a new Quiz you get the same layout and options as in the Forms functionality. But there are some differences. Let's talk about the differences in an overview below. Questions As I mentioned the options are the same as in New Forms: Choice Text Rating Date Ranking Likert But in the details there are some more options: Math - You can fill in an equation that the user has to solve. Forms won't calculate the math for you and determine what the answer is. So you have to fill in the answer below the equation.  Points - Let's say you have 100 points to give in the exam, with Points you can determine which questions get how many points.  These points will be shown when the Quiz has been submitted. The user will directly know how many points he/s...

SharePoint Survey Ah yes the good old days when Microsoft had SharePoint surveys. What a "tough" product that was, so complex and so not easy to implement and use. Just recently a client asked if it was possible to create a survey in SharePoint. I said "sure" but what I forgot was that they don't have Microsoft Forms enabled (yet!). So I helped them to get started with SharePoint survey but I soon realized that I had to create the survey myself because it's too complex to sell to the business. So that's what I did, create a survey. I thought about what was wrong with SharePoint survey and how hard it is to create a new survey. I thought about the sharing of the survey with other people and how the permission structure was set-up. I quickly realized I had to introduce them to another tool called Microsoft Forms. Microsoft Forms Released back in 2016 and since a few months Enterprise ready. Microsoft Forms enables users to create for...