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A great post by MS on how to identify clients using basic auth against office 365. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/basic-auth-and-exchange-online-february-2020-update/ba-p/1191282
Continue readingFor many of our clients, this is not a big deal.... however recently i was involved in an AD upgrade for an environment with 100's of sites... and this environment being.... not well kept... wasn't surprising that many "old" DC entries did not clean up nicely. With that in mind, it was time to pull…
Continue readingI'm a little embarrassed that i have only just found out about this. I, like many old timers, have been using telnet to verify network connectivity over certain ports for many years, with commands such as " telnet www.adexis.com.au 443 " in order to verify that specific ports are accessible from the machine im working…
Continue readingThis is one of the entries that kinda needs a "so bad its kinda funny" category. Microsoft, due to their unique understanding of customer needs, will be setting the default search engine in chrome to bing when you update to Office 365 version 2002. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/introducing-and-managing-microsoft-search-in-bing-through-office/ba-p/1110974 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/microsoft-search-bing https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/microsoft-search-bing#how-to-exclude-the-extension-for-microsoft-search-in-bing-from-being-installed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking#Microsoft_Office_365_ProPlus The best bit of the 1st article…
Continue readingNew Edge, Credge, Edgium or Credgium - no matter what you call it, the Edge browser based on chromium was released on Jan 15th 2020. To deploy the new versions using SCCM 1910 (or above) Add "Microsoft Edge" a product that is sync'ed in your software update point component properties Somewhat confusingly, the product is…
Continue readingOk, so, before the flood of hate comes my way Yes, its 2020, you should not be running Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7...... but the (unfortunate) reality is that many places still are Even if you are running them, they should be fully patched! "Patches break applications".... mostly bullshit.... it does happen... but happens…
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 readingRan into this fun one today, admittedly it was in my dev environment and is not a common scenario for our clients, which usually have much larger networks and network segments. Trying to install the ConfigMgr client, via client push or manually, fails with the below error repeating in ccmsetup.log Download Update: A recoverable error…
Continue readingMicrosoft Endpoint Manager - announced at Ignite - https://redmondmag.com/articles/2019/11/04/microsoft-endpoint-manager.aspx There's a lot of words in the announcement that don't mean much.... but it is an indication of how MS plan to move forward in this space. As it stands, the SCCM/Intune integration attempts have ranged from pretty bad to OK.... it will be interesting to…
Continue readingI recently picked up XBox game pass for PC. It was (is if your reading this soon after posting!) $1 for the first month and $5/month after that currently.... although i fully expect that the price will substantially increase if it manages to take off. I subscribed to Xbox game pass purely to play "…
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