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Microsoft is moving to a one year lifecycle on all of its client agents like Azure Entra Connect and Azure File Sync. Fortunately, Azure File Sync SHOULD upgrade itself 3 weeks before it expires. If you want to know how to setup Azure File Sync, we have just the short Read more…
Because of the Browser Wars of the 2000’s, internet browsers have become a “personal statement” but in real life, all of the current browsers perform very well in most applications. Here are some recent benchmarks (higher number is better) you might find useful. Note they are all quite close, but Read more…
The brown box icon on some of your icons relate to OneDrive and what is now called “FILES ON DEMAND”. OneDrive’s Files On-Demand feature allows you to access all your files in OneDrive without having to download them and use storage space on your device. That icon came with a Read more…
A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients inbox, all was happy. Unfortunately scumbags hackers and thieves decided to take Read more…
UPDATED: Feb 3 2025 In 2025 the world of so called Generative AI is fast changing and very confusing to most people. There are new products seemingly every day and they many of them have similar names. Some are from companies we all know and some are from startups. Some Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
Host Caching in Azure came from SCSI RAID controllers with RAM on them, when we had physical machines. The idea is that the disk does not have to wait for everything to be read or written onto the disk before continuing, because the RAID controller has it queue in its Read more…
We recently had a client who wanted to audit their Azure users. They wanted a list containing After several hours of polishing, mostly by our script guru Khalid Abdullahi, we came up with the script below.
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
Yesterday we had client with many IP and DNS problems and the screenshot below was taken after we cleaned up about half of them. As you can see, 168.63.129.16 is used both as a DHCP server and as a DNS FORWARDER, and the name shows up as <UNABLE TO RESOLVE>. Read more…
This is an argument I am so very tired of having so I decided to prove it. In about 1998, I recall reading a paper co-written with United States Department of Defense and Microsoft, which explained why adding a single character length to a password was far superior to adding Read more…
I was working with a client earlier this week who had brought in a security company to tighten up their infrastructure because they were a victim of a major hack just before we were brought in. That security company did a number of things to user accounts we found… odd, Read more…
We have published a number of relatively complex powershell cloud shell scripts to take snapshots of virtual machines. This is a simple script that is useful for those who are working with a single resource group in a single subscription, like most SMB’s. If you are running this via PowerShell Read more…
If you look at the properties of an Azure File Share you will see the FILE SYSTEM is showing as MAFS. Microsoft uses “Azure Files” for Azure File Shares. Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol Read more…
When launching an Excel file on local computer that that contains a macro, all works as expected. However, when running that same file from an network drive or an Azure file Share your macros don’t work and you see a SECURITY RICK banner stating “A potentially dangerous macro has been Read more…
We are always being asked to expand disk and add new disk to VM’s on Azure and there is some confusion around the process. Expanding a disk on an Azure virtual machine (WM) is easy: Here are the two catches: Adding a New Drive to An Azure VM Adding new Read more…