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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 ]
This morning, I was working with a new build of Windows 11 (22H2) and came across this frustrating error:
After running the Get-Credential cmdlet, the console is immediately returned to me with an error that I didn’t specify the -Credential parameter.… [ 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 ]
It’s been a busy day heading into the weekend, for sure!
I’ve refreshed the Azure AD Connect Communications Test tool (and sad that I gave it such a pigeonholed name). It’s got new endpoints for GCCH and I’ve cleaned up some deprecated package management tool downloads in it.… [ Continue reading ]
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 ]
Hola!
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 ]