Everything in AD (Active Directory) has a Distinguished Name. A Distinguished Name can be used in many situations such as setting up an application to use a service account or adding AD groups or users into applications and so much more. A Distinguished Name is also known as a DN. A benefit of an using…
For whatever reason the default fresh setup of Microsoft 365 has no audit logging turned on. Audit logging is very useful for IT troubleshooting and auditors love logs. Microsoft says that it is enabled by default for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 enterprise organizations. I suspect that means only if you have E1 or higher.…
If you have an older Lenovo server with a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) it may be running with TPM version 1.2 and not TPM version 2.0. One of many reasons to upgrade your TPM is because TPM 2.0 is needed to install ESXi 8. In this post I will show you how to update the…
In this post I will detail how to resolve the Palo Alto commit error when trying to commit a predefined IP list. Below is an example of the error Validation Error:external-list -> Palo Alto Networks Tor exit IP Addresses -> type -> predefined-ip -> url ‘panw-torexit-ip-list’ is not a valid referenceexternal-list -> Palo Alto Networks…
In this post I will show you how to upgrade your switch running Onyx (MLNX-OS). I will detail how to do it via command line and via the web interface. The best way to make sure your upgrade is a success is to plan your upgrade path. I recommend following the upgrade paths as sometimes…
The default setup of Windows Active Directory is no central store. A central store is a central place to store your group policy definitions. If you only have one domain controller and make all your GPOs (Group Policy Objects) on that domain controller this likely wouldn’t be much of a problem. The limitations start to…
Recently I needed to expand a disk on a Windows 10 VM and a Windows Server 2022 VM, but I couldn’t because the Recovery Partition was in the way. When searching for a way to do this I discovered that the internet is full of posts about simply deleting the Windows Recovery Partition. I am…
Right out of the box the initial configuration of Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365) isn’t bad, but there’s a lot more you can do to harden it and to make it fully yours. By default all Microsoft 365 tenants are in a state that is called dehydrated. Microsoft places all the tenants in this state…
When you are managing devices with Microsoft Intune aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager it’s great to control BitLocker but silently enabling BitLocker for all devices is even better. Here is everything you need to know to silently enable BitLocker with Intune. Disk Encryption Policy Profile First up we need to create a disk encryption policy profile…
VMware Horizon’s web portal has a decent appearance out of the box. However, I wanted to customize it to make it look like my own. If you have a customized login background on your Microsoft 365, it could be beneficial to create a consistent end-user experience by making them look similar. I couldn’t find any…
