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AADConnect has a JSON file and the ability to export - and there are also various AADConnect documenters out there... but sometimes you just want to get a core piece of info without having to start the GUI of wade through many pages of JSON. Get-ADSyncConnector | select Name Note the name of your "internal"…
Continue readingA few months back, my Synology NAS (DS2413+) started having some poor performance over the network - it wasnt horrendous - but it was noticeable. Speeds during transfer were generally fine, but simple cut/paste operations took longer than expected - and moving large files to the NAS seemed to swap between poor and decent transfer…
Continue readingRecently had this issue.... i was able to get to the specified URI via the browser with no issue. Came across this post - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-powershell/failed-downloading-az-and-other-modules-for-powershell/m-p/1292985 and this command fixed it for me [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 Apparently support for older protocols was dropped in April 2020 While i agree with the move - its just a…
Continue readingOne of the banes of many SCCM admins existence is reporting. Some SCCM people are SQL guns, others, like me, know what they need to to get by, but a strong SQL understanding - that just isn't me (and i know i'm not alone!). One of the key things with SCCM reports, and something that…
Continue readingI grabbed a couple of Draytek Vigor AP902 access points to work in conjunction with my Draytek Vigor 2925 router and Draytek Vigor 910c access point. I dont mind the Draytek gear in general - for a home setup it is sufficient... however i did find i needed better wireless range thought that 3 AP's…
Continue readingCross-post with http://www.hayesjupe.com/active-directory-2019-and-exchange-2019-whats-new/ The short answer is - not much. Exchange 2019 was released a few weeks back, but was effectively un-usable, as Exchange 2019 requires Windows Server 2019.... and Windows server 2019 got pulled from release (like Windows 10 1809) due to some issues. Windows Server 2019 was re-released a few days ago, which…
Continue readingLast month there was an outage in the Azure – South Central US region, which, by reports, seemed to have some knock on effects for other regions. This was reported at: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/04/azure_its_getting_hot_in_here/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-south-central-u-s-datacenter-outage-takes-down-a-number-of-cloud-services/ In the discussions that followed with our customers, particularly with those currently considering their digital transformation strategies including moves to Office 365…
Continue readingHave you ever had the experience of providing users a document management system or Sharepoint site only to find that everyone uses it differently, creates folders all over the place in different ways, stores documents differently and after six months time it's so hard to find anything that it defeats the purpose for which it…
Continue readingI ran into a situation recentlly where i needed to import a specific update from the Windows update catalog into WSUS (and in turn into SCCM) I opened WSUS, clicked on "import updates", seletced my update and was presented with "This update cannot be imported into Windows Server Update Services, because it is not compatible…
Continue readingMicrosoft product end of support dates are sometimes not easy to find and its not getting any better with the "current branch" releases and cloud solutions being governed by the Modern lifecycle policy . The Modern lifecycle policy page further links to 3 product catagories, O365, Cloud platform and Dynamics. Unfortunately, its not clear (at…
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