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If you’ve spent any time in an organization that takes least privilege seriously, you’ve met Privileged Identity Management. PIM is wonderful. PIM is responsible. PIM is the security equivalent of eating your vegetables.
PIM is also the reason I’ve spent a measurable percentage of my adult life clicking Activate, typing a justification, waiting for a blade to load, clicking Activate again, and then discovering I needed a different role anyway.… [ Continue reading ]
Over the years, I’ve written a couple of different blog posts and tools designed to help identify AD objects with broken inheritance–primarily because they intersect with mailbox migrations or AAD Connect–err, Entra Connect Sync–problems,
Today, we’ll dig into some automation I put together to help identify why Entra Connect is failing to write-back to on-premises AD objects.… [ Continue reading ]
Microsoft Edge has a bunch of interesting internal URLs. How many, you ask?
Tons.
The URLs are basically broken into two sections: safe URLs and unsafe URLs. Safe URLs will show you interesting information (mostly diagnostic data) about your browser. Unsafe URLs, however, may crash your browser (some of them are even designed to do just that).… [ Continue reading ]
Here is a sentence that should terrify you more than it does: the protocol responsible for basically all business communication on Earth was designed before anyone thought to ask whether the people sending messages might be lying about who they are.… [ Continue reading ]
Sometimes, you need to see the group within the group. And, a lot of times, it’s nice to see it laid out in a handy tree-type view.
Not a whole lot to say about this, except that it provides a new way to look at Exchange Online groups from a nested perspective.… [ Continue reading ]
I’m excited about how quickly this book came together. While working with a new-to-me coauthor, Steve Miles, we were able to get all of the content written for this brand-new book in less than 3 months. It maps exactly to the Microsoft AI-900 exam blueprint, so you know you’ll be prepared.… [ Continue reading ]
If you’ve ever been involved in tenant-to-tenant migrations, getting an accounting for which users are consuming which licenses is part of the job. When you’re working with large shared infrastructures with lots of different SKUs and license assignments, it goes from being a chore to a full-on headache sometimes.… [ Continue reading ]
A few days ago, I was trying to find all instances of a value stored in AD. I was trying to understand all of the places that a particular partial GUID value was being used. so I had to come up with a way to search all properties for all objects across the directory space.… [ Continue reading ]
The title of this post is a mouthful. I understand that.
Fortunately, the steps are pretty straightforward.
When working with transitioning organizations to Azure AD, it’s important to give the consumers of said systems the best possible experiences from a sign-on perspective.… [ Continue reading ]
Finally landed!
Got my author copies of Microsoft 365 Administration: Inside Out delivered. I’m super excited. Some folks who pre-ordered theirs have already received them as well.
I want to thank my great co-authors, Darryl Kegg (https://www.identitydude.com) and Ed Fisher.… [ Continue reading ]
Two years ago, I decided to pick up a Water Rower. After using it semi-regularly, I decided the thing I needed was some sort of gamification mechanism (as well as a better way of tracking stats, since the S3/S4 monitor that comes with rowing machines is literally one of the least intuitive pieces of consumer technology.… [ Continue reading ]
It’s that time of year again–where I’m using some downtime to churn out books like a madman.
Many of my projects are collaborative efforts, working with peers–and each of us specializing in a particular part of the content development.
We all know that Excel makes the world go round (arguably, it’s one of the most important pieces of business software to ever be created).… [ Continue reading ]
This week, I found myself unable to log into an Azure-hosted VM due to a new managed firewall rule. The new rule was put in at priority 0 and it specifically blocks inbound 3389.
Now, with it blocked, I’m unable to log into the server to update it. … [ Continue reading ]
Sometimes, our instructions are lacking. Today, I needed to recover my Surface Book 2 device. I thought, easy—I’ll just use the Reset PC option inside the Control Panel.
After the initial reset (using the delete my files option), Windows Explorer wouldn’t launch.… [ Continue reading ]
As we’re updating the Office 365 Administration Inside Out book (now called Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out), I came across this chapter I wrote on OneDrive for Business Known Folder Move (KFM). This is the legacy method that won’t work for new deployments, but wanted it documented for posterity so that we could reference it for folks that inherited deployments using it so they know what to roll back.… [ Continue reading ]