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azure file sync

SOLVED: Azure File Sync Lifecycle Explained

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…

By Ian Matthews, 1 monthApril 7, 2025 ago
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SOLVED: What’s The Best Corporate Browser, Chrome, Edge or Firefox?

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…

By Ian Matthews, 1 monthApril 4, 2025 ago
brown box icon on file icons

SOLVED: Brown Box Icon at Bottom Left of File Icons

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…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMarch 27, 2025 ago
DNS and email security with DKIM and DMARC

SOLVED: A Simple Explanation of Email Security with DKIM and DMARC

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…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMarch 7, 2025 ago
Google Gemini vs ChatGPT Free vs ChatGPT Plus vs Copilot vs Copilot Pro vs Copilot for Microsoft 365 vs Grok vs SuperGrok

SOLVED: Is ChatGPT Plus Better than Copilot Pro? What is Grok? GPT’s Compared

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…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMarch 2, 2025 ago
ms edge browser for windows 11 10 vs windows server

SOLVED: What is the Difference Between MS Edge Browser For Server and For Windows 11 / 10

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…

By Ian Matthews, 3 monthsFebruary 26, 2025 ago

SOLVED: Azure Host Caching Explained

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…

By Ian Matthews, 3 monthsFebruary 24, 2025 ago
export azure users creation dates last logged in dates and roles

SOLVED: Azure Audit – How To List Azure User Account Details Including Roles

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.

By Khalid Abdullahi, 3 monthsFebruary 22, 2025 ago
delete all snapshots from all subscriptions and resource groups

SOLVED: Script To Snapshot VM’s From ALL Azure Subscriptions & Resource Groups

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…

By Ian Matthews, 3 months ago
what is 168 63 129 16

SOLVED: What is 168.63.129.16? Azure WireServer IP Explained

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 24, 2025 ago
passwords - longer or complex

SOLVED: Password Complexity vs Password Length, Which Is Tougher To Crack?

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 23, 2025 ago
Azure AD connect sync error Insufficient access rights to perform the operation

SOLVED: Azure Entra Connect Sync Error “Insufficient access rights to perform the operation”

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 23, 2025 ago
script take azure snapshots

SOLVED: Simple PowerShell Script To Take Snapshots of Azure VMs

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 20, 2025 ago
what is mafs

SOLVED: What is MAFS File System?

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 15, 2025 ago
fix word excel potentially dangerous macro has been blocked

SOLVED: Word Excel Error – Potentially Dangerous Macro Has Been Blocked

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 14, 2025 ago
how to expand a disk on an Azure VM

SOLVED: Everything You Need To Know About Expanding a Disk on an Azure VM

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…

By Ian Matthews, 4 monthsJanuary 13, 2025 ago

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