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Had an interesting one recently with a customer that has created cloud accounts for use during COVID-19 with approx 50 users. Each of these accounts were assigned a license and the users used teams, onenote, onedrive etc.... but not exchange online mailbox - as they already have an on-premise mailbox. After this, we became involved…
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 readingThere are plenty of ways to randomly add systems to a collection in SCCM, a common query being something similar to select SMS_R_System.Name from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier like "%0" OR SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier like "%1" In a recent instance, i needed to ensure that systems were randomly chosen for a product roll out across a 1500-ish servers…
Continue readingA month or two back, i grabbed a new media/VR PC - and had a great deal of flicker on the screen. After some googling, i found that "Virtual super resolution" seemed to be a common cause - and disabling this stopped the flicker. Fast forward to today - and a monitor on my main…
Continue readingCame across this after following a post on linked in - checked it out - and its pretty bloody good. Run the tool - it will spit out a report with recommendations for O365 Advanced threat protection... The recommendations it spits out are of a pretty good quality https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reviewing-your-office-atp-configuration-cam-murray/ its not perfect (these things rarely…
Continue readingHad a client ring today with a mail flow issue. They are most of the way through their migration to 2016, but mail flow stopped with the error "421 4.4 2 connection dropped due to socket error" on the exchange 2010 side - when trying to relay to exchange 2016. This occurred after patching…
Continue readingThere seems to be a great deal of mis-information about this floating around the web.... despite articles like this that lay it out quite well. When you create an SCCM antimalware policy, the settings do merge. You do not have to create bucketloads of policies and apply/re-apply the same settings over and over and over…
Continue readingThe NBN (National Broadband Network) is an Australian nation building project which was announced in 2009 and was meant to be Australia's savior from our terrible internet services. Unfortunately, it became a political football instead - and has been fucked more times than all the porn stars in the world put together.... to the point…
Continue readingA few years back - an (ex) employee posted on the Adexis blog about the fun of Surface laptops and deployment in SCCM https://blog.adexis.com.au/2018/04/09/microsoft-surface-laptops-and-sccm-os-deployment/#comment-1478 Personally, i've deployed a lot of Surface Pro 3's and 4's.... but not so much after that.... until now. During the week i was called into a client to find out…
Continue readingA client recently had an issue where they had lost the administrator password on their offline root CA. The well known method of copying cmd.exe over utilman.exe was not working When trying to reset the administrator password, it appeared to work, but on reboot, the new password was not accepted. To that end i utilise…
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