Sensitive Information Types–now with more sensitivity!

UPDATE: The file link for this post has been updated.

So, this is an entry that has been long in the making.  I have had several customers over the last few years give feedback about our Data Loss Prevention’s (DLP) matching requirements, mostly around how they require too much corroborating evidence (in the form of patterns or keywords) to meet their organization’s very restrictive policies.… [ Continue reading ]

Update: AAD Connect Network Test Tool

I trotted out the trusty WireShark and Fiddler tools today and ran through the latest iteration of AAD Connect setup.  In so doing, I’ve added a few endpoints to the test:

$CRL
http://ocsp.msocsp.com

$RequiredResources
adminwebservice-s1-co2.microsoftonline.com

$RequiredResourcesEndpoints
https://adminwebservice-s1-co2.microsoftonline.com/provisioningwebservice.svc

As always, the newest version is available at http://aka.ms/aadnetwork[ Continue reading ]

Testing a variable with the value of zero

Tonight, while working on my previous script, I ran into an interesting problem when testing the presence of a value.

Consider this:

PS C:\> [int]$IntValue0 = 0
PS C:\> [int]$IntValue1 = 1
PS C:\> [string]$StringValue0 = "0"
PS C:\> [string]$StringValue1 = "1"
PS C:\> $IntValue0
0
PS C:\> $IntValue1
1
PS C:\> If ($IntValue0) { "exists" }
PS C:\> If ($IntValue1) { "exists" }
exists
PS C:\> if ($StringValue0) { "exists" }
exists
PS C:\> if ($StringValue1) { "exists" }
exists
PS C:\> if ($IntValue0 -eq $null) { "null" }
PS C:\> if ($IntValue0 -lt 1) {"less than 1" }
less than 1
PS C:\> $IntValue0.GetType()
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Update: Create-LabUsers Tool

Just when you thought it couldn’t get more awesome.

It has.

By popular request, I have added a few new features (and fixed an annoyance).  First, the bug fix:

-Count 1

Yes, it’s true. If you ran the Create-LabUsers script with -Count 1 with the -InflateMailboxes parameter, you’d run into an issue because of how I calculated the $MaxRecipients value. … [ Continue reading ]