The Company Portal application is a wonderful tool for Microsoft Intune. If you come from the world of ConfigMgr (Microsoft Configuration Manager aka SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager)), it is the Intune version of Software Center. Company Portal allows users to install programs you publish on the Company Portal. My favorite part is that the…
Palo Alto Networks firewalls often require a device certificate. A device certificate is needed for items like device telemetry and for some of the CDSS (Cloud-Delivered Security Services) items, such as WildFire, DNS and URL filtering, and others. In this post, I show you step-by-step how to check if a device certificate is installed and…
Microsoft recently introduced the public preview of External Authentication Methods in Microsoft Entra ID. I am very excited about External Authentication Methods as they finally allow third-party MFA providers like Cisco Duo to integrate better with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure AD). Microsoft has supported third-party MFA providers for years. The original method for…
Microsoft 365’s Stay signed in option is designed for user convenience but can increase security risks when used on public or non-corporately owned devices. The risk is due to the potential for unauthorized access to the user’s account and the resources they have access to. The stay signed in option, also known as KMSI (Keep…
Palo Alto Networks has this awesome program called the User Identification Agent, aka the User-ID Agent. It allows you to identify which device a user is using, allowing you to craft security policy rules based on the users themselves. In this post, I will show you step-by-step how to upgrade the Palo Alto Networks User-ID…
Active Directory is very much a database. It even has a schema to define what can and can’t be created and how everything is related and linked. An oversimplification is that the Active Directory schema is the rules about the types of items you can make in Active Directory, and this also includes the available…
A while back, Microsoft added a feature to SharePoint Online called Add shortcut to OneDrive. This feature adds a shortcut to the file or folder in another SharePoint site directly in your OneDrive. The Add shortcut to OneDrive feature is on by default. Depending on your setup, you may want to turn the Add shortcut…
VMware vCenter RDU (Reduced Downtime Upgrade (or Update)) is a relatively new feature that allows you to update your vCenter to the next version with limited downtime, just like the name indicates. It works similarly to the process for upgrading from vCenter 7 to vCenter 8, which is also very similar to doing a fresh…
At some point, you will need to expand your TrueNAS Zvol. In this post, I will cover step-by-step how to increase the size of your Zvol on TrueNAS, specifically TrueNAS Core or TrueNAS Enterprise. The Process
If you have been using the UniFi controller for a very long time, there’s a chance you are running an older version of MongoDB. When Ubiquiti released version 8.1 of the UniFi network application server, they finally bumped up the supported MongoDB version from 4.4 to 7.0. The MongoDB upgrade path only supports jumping one…
