Tag: PowerShell

Microsoft 365 Enable Organization Customization

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…

Upgrading Duo Authentication for Windows Logon

Duo Authentication for Windows Logon and RDP is great tool that I like to use to add MFA to Windows systems specifically servers, as it could help prevent lateral movement in the network. When you only have a few systems running Duo Authentication for Windows Logon and RDP upgrading it is short and painless. When…

Fixing Teams needs an update

Recently I’ve ran into an issue with Microsoft Teams where the user sees a blocking message that says “Teams needs an update”. The user needs to action it before they can use Microsoft Teams again. Typically the user can just click on Update Teams which will take them to a download page for Microsoft Teams,…

geoSCOUT published remote access

I needed to get geoSCOUT working in VMware Horizon but geoLOGIC doesn’t officially support publishing geoSCOUT to systems like Citrix, RD Web, and Horizon. Due to the way that geoSCOUT works you can’t just launch the geoSCOUT exe and have it work. On the first launch a user would normally run the geoSCOUT Desktop_Build_NonAdmin_v8.exe installer…

Azure IP Downloader v1

My firewall recently blocked Microsoft Azure AD Connect which caused issues with syncing to 365. Turns out the issue was that my IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) flagged it as being “suspected RST injection”. Normally when something like this happens it’s typically the IPS being overly sensitive and I usually can whitelist the specific detection however…