It is difficult to understand what Microsoft if offering these days. It was hard enough when there was just Office 365 with the E1 E3 and E5 packages but today Microsoft is offering 3 different bundles (Office, Windows & Microsoft) each with their own E1 E3 and E5 sub-bundles. What […]
Microsoft is using the term Advanced Threat Protection with several products so it can be difficult to find the information you need. In this article we are referring to Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection which is unrelated to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection. In case you want to play along […]
After attending a number of large scale tech conferences like Microsoft TechEd and CES, we have seen and made many needless mistakes. These are always giant visual impact productions and if you don’t get it right, you can spend alot of time running around in circles and not getting much […]
If you are running a default WordPress installation on IIS you will find that you can upload files into the MEDIA LIBRARY without any problem but if you try to download those files, you will see a 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR or a 500.50 URL REWRITE MODULE ERROR (depending on […]
UPDATED: June 28 2021 – Step 10 was the big change. We just spent the last hour working through this and I can confirm this updated process is happy. If your a Canadian with a PayPal account with US Dollars in it, you likely will want to transfer it to […]
If you have a Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services infrastructure, you will likely want to lock down the Sessions Hosts. Below are some of the useful Group Policies that we suggest you apply.
Note that Server 2012 and Server 2016 have the option to use something very important for security named USER PROFILE DISKS. A User Profile Disk is a VHDX that is created for each user. That Virtual Hard Disk contains their C:\USERS\ profile and blocks remote users from interacting with the physical disk.
If you want to use USER PROFILE DISKS click HERE for more information. If you don’t want to use USER PROFILE DISKS, you should consider configuring the following GPOs:
USER > POLICIES > SYSTEM > FOLDER REDIRECTION
USER > POLICIES > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > WINDOWS COMPONENTS > FILE EXPLORER > HIDE THESE SPECIFIED DRIVES IN MY COMPUTER
USER > POLICIES > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > WINDOWS COMPONENTS > FILE EXPLORER > PREVENT ACCESS TO DRIVES FROM MY COMPUTER
Lets get started. Below are the GPO’s we suggest you consider to lock down your RDS Session Hosts:
The Bitcoin market isn’t going anywhere. The undisputed current champion of cryptocurrency has been the biggest name in this burgeoning form of finance for a while now and appears poised to carry this legacy into the future. As with any market, especially one based on finance, there is a not-inconsiderable […]
UPDATED: June 7 2023 If you have Server 2016 Data Center your server likely came with a single COA (Certificate of Authenticity) sticker containing a single DataCenter CD Key. If you then try to use that Key to activate new Server 2016 or Server 2012 Standard VM’s it will fail. […]
Unless you are already famous or want to put in hundreds of unpaid hours, there is no way you can make money on YouTube after February 2018. Worse, if you are already a YouTube Partner that does not meet the new minimums, you will be shut down in February […]
UPDATE: Oct 11 2024 – Microsoft has moved the Microsoft 365 email quarantine to the new Microsoft 365 defender portal. Click HERE for the links and the details. ____________________________ If you are using Office365 email, you will periodically need to check the messages that Microsoft has flagged as ‘likely bad’ […]
Macros in Word, Excel and PowerPoint used to be one of the most common attack vectors but they largely died out near 2010. In 2016 they are being used aggressively in Crypto/Ransomware attacks and you may want to disable them. Specifically, they are often sent in email attachments. Word / […]
If you have an Android cell or tablet that has stopped automatically receiving email, there are several places to investigate. The very first thing you should do is power down the cell / tablet, then power it back up and see if all is working. If that does not clear the issue, […]
Version 6 of Mitel’s Unified Communications agent now called MiCollab has had troubles connecting to the MAS / MGB server on Windows 10 since the early summer of 2016. As you can see in the screenshot to the right it displays CONNECTION LOST even though it is correctly configured and […]
Veeam is an excellent product to back up virtual machines but its original incarnation did not readily support backup to external disk or cloud storage. Both of these items have been resolved and today Veeam Cloud Connect is now included with every version of Veeam 9.0 or higher WITHOUT ADDITIONAL […]
If you have an Office365 account, you likely know that you have 50GB worth of storage space. However, it is not obvious how much of that 50GB limit you are currently using. Questions like: ‘How large is all of my email’, ‘How much space do I have left in my […]
If you have ever not received an email that you know was sent but did not bounce back to the sender, it might be that the backend server has marked it for deletion and put in the Quarentine. Microsoft, and all good companies, have email filtering that saves you from […]