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So today, one of my former peers posed an interesting question to me:
Suppose I have customer that a bunch of service accounts that have on-premises mailboxes and need the object to show up in the cloud GAL, but the security organization maintains that those accounts must not be allowed to log into Azure AD. … [ Continue reading ]
While working with a customer over the past few weeks implementing a new AAD Connect synchronization rule to disable expired accounts, we wanted to evaluate how many accounts might be selected by such a rule.
Checking hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of accounts by hand doesn’t rank high on anyone’s list–fortunately, that’s what PowerShell was made for.… [ Continue reading ]
When attempting to migrate a Microsoft 365 organization from federated authentication to Password Hash Sync, there are a couple of gotchas that can impact how you manage certain accounts. These changes in authentication behavior determine whether you need to implement new workflows or business processes–changes surrounding expired accounts and accounts flagged to force password change on next logon.… [ 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 ]
Over the month or so (which, in internet terms, is a lifetime), lots of folks have been interacting with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/). It’s prompted a number of responses from awe (“this is so cool!”) to workplace terror (“AI-generated code will replace real developers!”).… [ 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 ]
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I’m super excited to announce that the second edition of Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate has been released! It’s available immediately.
This book features a ton of updates (product, connector, action and parameter names). We’ve changed the way some features work, so I wanted to capture those changes (the old ways still work, but it’s best to be up-to-date).… [ 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 ]
As we’ve been working on refreshing the Microsoft 365 Administration Inside Out book (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0137908857), I came across several scripts that I mentioned in the book that have since been lost due to the retirement of the TechNet Gallery.
So, I’ve pulled them back, refreshed them, and uploaded them to the PowerShell Gallery. … [ Continue reading ]
Earlier today, a customer asked me how to block screen capture on Windows 10/11 devices. Turns out, there are a few things we can do in the box.
Here we go!
Disclaimer: This post discusses modifying the Windows Registry. Please make a backup before changing any settings.… [ Continue reading ]
It’s been a few months since I’ve updated this tool, but feedback from two individuals led me to a couple of small updates:
A few days ago, I was working on a small project for a health care provider where they wanted to leverage some sort of calendar with training tasks and checklists.
The organization makes heavy use of Microsoft Teams, so I immediately thought of Microsoft Planner for organizing, coordinating, and managing the onboarding tasks for the trainers and new employees. … [ Continue reading ]
One of my former peers pinged me the other day asking if I had a script in my back pocket that would allow an analyst at a customer to get a list of Teams, whether they were public or private, and who the owners were.… [ Continue reading ]