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Continue reading →: Data Protection Manager (DPM) – Scheduled Jobs Fail to RunThis is one of the most frustrating issues to come across as DPM will happily tell you it’s working perfectly fine unless you notice your most recent backup time doesn’t quite look right, especially as most of the time you’re going to spot this when you need to do a…
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Continue reading →: Windows Deployment Services (WDS) – Cannot locate Windows Deployment ServicesAfter recently doing an in-place upgrade of our server that hosts MDT and WDS I encountered an issue when trying to deploy our latest image release. Luckily it’s a fairly simple fix.
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Continue reading →: DPM could not execute a WMI query. The query either returned an error or an empty result – Error 33507So I recently came across this issue after rolling out Trend to a new Data Protection Manager (DPM) instance whereby I couldn’t create new protection groups as it was generating the following error – Luckily it proved to be a fairly simple issue to resolve.
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Continue reading →: Microsoft Teams – How to Generate an Easy Report of all Users & TeamsI’ve recently had a requirement to allow us to generate a report of all the users in our Microsoft Teams teams because as often seems to be the case it’s all grown a little organically and now we need to get it under control. The first step to any process…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) – How to Remove Old Backups (PowerShell)So Microsoft DPM software is a pretty decent backup solution, but it does have a nasty tendency to not remove old backups correctly even if retention policies are set. This can happen for a multitude of reasons that I won’t go into. This article is going to very quickly go…
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Continue reading →: AZ-100/AZ-103 – Implement and manage hybrid identities – Study Notes #20This article covers the “Implement and manage hybrid identities” section of the AZ-100 and AZ-103 Exams and is part of my AZ-100 Study Notes series. Install and configure Azure AD Connect Azure AD Connect allows you to connect and sync between an On-Premise Active Directory and AAD. Detailed information on…
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Continue reading →: AZ-100/AZ-103 – Manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices) – Study Notes #19This article covers the “Manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices)” section of the AZ-100 and AZ-103 Exams and is part of my AZ-100 Study Notes series. Create users and groups Creating users and groups is fairly straightforward, navigate to Azure Active Directory and then select either Users or…
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Continue reading →: AZ-100/AZ-103 – Manage Azure Active Directory (AD) – Study Notes #18Managing Azure Active Directory in Azure, this one was a lot of fun to study
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Continue reading →: AZ-103 – Configure a Network Security Group (NSG) – Study Notes #17This article covers the “Create and configure a Network Security Group (NSG)” section of the AZ-100 and AZ-103 Exams and is part of my AZ-100 Study Notes series. A Network Security Group is basically a network filter/firewall that allows you to restrict access to resources within a VNET, they are…
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Continue reading →: AZ-100/AZ-103 – Implement and manage virtual networking – Study Notes #16This article covers the “Implement and manage virtual networking” section of the AZ-100 and AZ-103 Exams and is part of my AZ-100 Study Notes series. Configure Azure DNS Within Virtual Networks, DNS servers may be configured by navigating to the VNET and then navigate to “DNS Servers” in the “Settings”…





