A custom-themed Microsoft 365 sign-in page can augment the user experience by making it easier to tell if it is a phishing sign-in page, as it will help users recognize whether the login page is legitimate or not. It also adds a nice custom tweak to your Microsoft 365 tenant. In this post, I will…
Cloudflare Access is a wonderful tool that can add MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) to applications that don’t support it. I’ve previously covered Setting Up Cloudflare Access using email OTP (One-time PIN). What I didn’t cover in that post was how to set up Cloudflare Access with an IdP (Identity Provider). In this post, I will show…
Sometimes, you need to do a quick factory reset on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. If you aren’t decommissioning the firewall, a Private Data Reset can be a faster way to accomplish similar results as a factory reset and can be done via CLI directly and could technically be done remotely with some coordination. In…
I recently discovered that I caused an unintended side effect on Windows 10 when deploying a default taskbar for all users. In my post Intune Deploy Default Taskbar I inadvertently introduced a bug to the Windows 10 Start Menu making it so users can’t customize anything. The bug is that users can pin programs to…
Out of the box, you can’t just add a Security Profile to the interface that runs GlobalProtect fortunately there’s a relatively easy way to do it with minimal impact to your existing GlobalProtect setup. In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to secure GlobalProtect by adding protection with a Vulnerability Protection Profile or…
In the past, I’ve made a few one-off PowerShell scripts to set various registry settings. I find myself needing to do this more and more. I’ve always just forced my registry settings with no regard to whether the settings were already correct. A perfect example of this is my PowerShell script to Disable Auto Windows…
As the end of Windows 10 starts creeping up we have to adapt some of our methods to support mixed environments with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Most settings in Microsoft Intune aren’t specific to Windows 10 or Windows 11 some settings are specific to the version. For example, one of them is the Windows…
VMware vCenter is a wonderful application that lets you take full advantage of your ESXi hosts. If you have more than one ESXi host you should look at vCenter. The full name of vCenter is vCenter Server Appliance or VCSA. In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to install vCenter 8. The process…
HPE iLO (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Integrated Lights-Out) is a wonderful tool when your servers are remote. It’s important to keep it up to date as if not properly secured it could be a risk of compromise to your environment. In this post, I’ll show step-by-step how to update the HPE iLO firmware on your server.…
Microsoft has stopped deploying the original version of Microsoft Teams (now called Microsoft Teams Classic) with new Microsoft 365 apps installs. I’ve been using New Microsoft Teams for quite a while now and I honestly can’t tell the difference between the two anymore. An issue I do have with New Teams is that it doesn’t…
