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Cleaning up Disks

Cleaning up Disks

An essential part of system administration is to look after your systems and keep them in tip-top condition. Microsoft has some tools to maintain the disks, namely the Disk Cleanup utility. This is however not installed by default on older server operating systems 2012 R2 or earlier unless you have

Fending off Brute Force with Duo

Fending off Brute Force with Duo

Brute Force attacks are prevalent and indeed, with the current climate seem to be on the rise. Brute Force attacks are the trial and error of accessing systems. They are not just attacking from outside your network, but can also be inside your network. What can you do to reduce

File Server Migrations, things to be careful of

File Server Migrations, things to be careful of

Recently Jonathan has completed a File Server migration, and here he explains some gotchas that he encountered on the way

What time is it?

What time is it?

Here Jonathan has been deploying Azure VMs and time doesn't appear to be on his side!

Azure AD Connect Synchronisation of Existing O365 Accounts

Here I ran into an issue where soft matching existing Azure AD accounts with on-premises AD accounts would not match if they were a global admin. Here is my write-up on this finding

Migrating Azure AD Connect

Migrating Azure AD Connect

Here I ran into a permissions issue when trying to migrate a customer Azure AD Connect install to a new Server. This is what I did to fix it 🔨