Azure MFA is a fantastic product – Its easy to setup and maintain, and not very costly to purchase (for pricing, click here). The great thing about Azure MFA is that it becomes very easy to secure your local directory, but also your remote desktop connections or RDS your 2008/2012 farms. There is just one…
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Forcing DFS to prefer the local DC, Without creating subnets and sites
I’ve recently did some temporary work on a legacy-environment for a client. This client recently added some 2012 servers as domain controllers and file servers, The only issue was that there was no way that the client could edit Sites and Services to create correct sites and associated subnets, due to a legacy in-house application…
Using powershell to backup SSH devices (And more!)
I’ve recently been moving to a new RMM product that offers better automation policies than the one I’ve used before. The new RMM product also has the ability to run scripts with in and output from the RMM product itself – e.g. if a network contains a Juniper router, You can run automation policies based…
Search Service crashing on RDS / Server 2012R2
I’ve recently been experiencing many issues with the Windows Search service on Server 2012R2 – The search index service would crash and cause entire RDP sessions to hang whenever typing something in the start menu. Of course on RDS servers this was a major issue and my clients got very upset due to not being…
Stop AADSync logs from clogging up your servers disk space
I’ve been rolling out a lot of large AADSync deployments recently – I love how AADSync gives a SSO experience to the SMB markets without having to deploy ADFS. But as always these deployments in SMB markets have some downsides; The default configuration for AADSync/Dirsync is that it logs everything using tracing and ForeFront MSSQL Logs.
Creating hosted mailboxes while on premises mailboxes still exist.
Using DirSync or AADSync sometimes has its drawbacks when you want to migrate using third party tools…
Migrating permissions over domains
How do you handle moving permissions across domains?
Using BEMCLI to automate restores
Backups are fine, but do you perform restore tests?
Juniper SRX: Using RPM to monitor and change routes
RPM is a service on SRX based machines starting from Junos 9 to assist in multi-wan solutions.
Hyper-V: Automating installations using exports.
No SCVMM? No problem!
PowerShell: Using RunOnce to have script survive reboot
RunOnce is a default windows function that could be used to have scripts survive a reboot.
SCCM 2012 R2: Launching applications from HTA
The next part of the SCCM 2012 R2 HTA blogs – Launching applications!
SCCM 2012 R2: The power of HTA Menus.
I’ve always been somewhat underwhelmed with the freedom given to us by Microsoft with the standard menus in SCCM 2012 and SCCM 2012 R2