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Leveraging the Microsoft Defender Portal for Continuous Security Assessment and Action
In the realm of cybersecurity, vigilance is not just a practice, it’s a necessity. For IT...
Read MoreWhat Limitations? Hybrid Autopilot in Intune with Provisioning Task Sequence in Configuration Manager
Recently announced is the ability to deploy the Configuration Manager Client through Intune without going through the process of packaging the MSI. The process involves going into the Co-management Settings tile under Devices...
Read MoreBuilding a Highly Available database with PowerShell, without shared storage. Part 2: Database migration and availability
In Part 1 of this guide, we created a 2-node VM cluster on Windows Server 2022 and installed SQL...
Read MoreBuilding a highly available database with PowerShell, without shared storage. Part 1: Before database migration
We have an existing physical SQL database cluster that needs a hardware refresh, but with a new...
Read MoreWindows 10 Servicing Plans – Running out of Space – Filtering Updates – Too many Languages #SCCM #ServcingPlans
A slightly odd ball title, but I wanted to cover off a few scenarios that seem to have plagued a...
Read MoreAzure Active Directory – Problem Updating UserPrincipalName (FederatedUser.UserPrincipalName], is not valid)
Ever need to change an Azure tenants user’s UPN from one of your verified to another? This needs to be done for a few reasons, but usually this is done to migrate people between departments / sub companies in cases where their email has changed. Unfortunately, ADConnect tries to do this, but fails. How do we fix this? #PowerShell!
Read MoreHow to Force a #SCCM Task Sequence to Fail
Task Sequences are used heavily in Operating System Deployment (#OSD), but they are also used to control the workflow of installing applications, migrations, updates and even patching. Just like any piece of work in the IT world, we need to go through a Dev, QA, Prod lifecycle while developing these. More often than not, even the simplest Task Sequence needs a little debugging. Perhaps in your own Task Sequence you’ve developed, or perhaps you inherited the Task Sequence.
Read MoreInstall-SCVMM-HyperV.PS1 #PowerShell #SCVMM #SystemCenter #1801 #MVPBuzz
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In this blog post I will show you how you can deploy SCVMM 1801 to a...
Read MoreConfiguring Networking for #StorageSpacesDirect with #SCVMM #PowerShell #MVPBuzz
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, If you haven’t had a chance to yet you should grab yourself a copy...
Read MoreSystem Center Operations Manager 2016 Console – Silent Install with Management Pack Workaround
From more often than not, it gets tedious to install consoles on many administrators computers. SCOM 2016 seems to have changed a little bit. This is how I will now install the console.
Read MoreActive Directory – When was this user/computer Created #PowerShell #MVPHour #
A pretty simple request came across my desk today. I was requested to send a report of users that were created after a specific date. Do you remember the Windows Server 2003 and prior? Before PowerShell? We had to use what I’ll term loosely as “wonderful” LDAP queries. Also the query result was pure text, we couldn’t do anything easily with it short of magical text parsing! Well here is my PowerShell script I quickly whipped up!
Read MoreSnapshot Management – Who done and When #PowerShell #VMware
This is one of those management tasks that comes up at any location you’re at, especially...
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