If you haven’t synced your local Active Directory to Microsoft 365 via Azure Cloud Connect, you can start here. If you have but haven’t enabled SSO to simplify the process, you are missing out on something big. With Azure AD SSO, you don’t have to type in your passwords to sign in to Azure AD, and most of the time, […]
After getting too many spam emails sent to the distribution group, it’s time to tighten things a bit and restrict these groups from getting emails from outside parties. For regular Microsoft 365 groups, you can simply go to the Exchange Dashboard, open the group, switch to the Settings tab, and uncheck the option “Allow external senders to email this group“. […]
It’s really easy if you need to make changes to the roaming profile path in Active Directory to multiple user accounts. All you need is to highlight them all, right-click and select Properties. But as you can see, it doesn’t have the Remote Desktop Service Profile tab. So how do you batch update this property to a large number of […]
After years of using the roaming profile, I finally gave it up. It’s such a great idea that when it works, it works like a charm. But lately, I am getting more and more frustrated about how slow it takes to log off and log onto a computer. The convenience it brought me to joy has finally worn off. But […]
I managed to get my hands on a set of Logitech Meetup Kit for Microsoft Teams lately and almost immediately fell in love with both the equipment and the Microsoft Teams Room system. The one-touch to start the meeting works great and does improve a lot the whole video meeting experience. The Kit includes a 4K camera, a touch-enabled Tap […]
When it comes to moving emails from one mailbox to another, the first thing that comes to my mind is to use the ugly PST file. Export the emails from one mailbox and then import them into another, via Outlook. Truth be told, while it’s a feasible option, it’s daunting as hell. A much better option is to use PowerShell […]
Thanks to Reddit, my favorite place to wander when having nothing to do, for teaching me another technique that can be useful situations like this: We have a service running on a Linux VM, using open-source software. It works. Got a request from the marketing department to migrate the service to a paid hosted version that they used at a […]
Why? Here is a piece of free advice from Fabian Wosar (@fwosar), CTO of Emisoft. Click the link to see the whole thread. Or read along here. Here is free advice for all the ransomware threat actors out there: Do not obfuscate your decryption tools. Contrary to what you think, victims who paid the ransom will not blindly run the […]