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Azure, Microsoft

How-To Create an OAuth app policy to notify you about new OAuth applications

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Shaun Wilkinson

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November 13, 2023

This is one of the newer Microsoft Secure Score recommended actions, but how do we enable it and what’s the point behind it? We’ll explore both of those questions in this post.
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AWS

How to Delete an AWS Managed Account using Consolidated Billing

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Shaun Wilkinson

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October 5, 2023

I tend to find AWS quite a bit more complicated and laborious than Azure, I hope to change my opinion on this eventually, but for now, that still rings true. For those of us who utilise Managed Accounts, and specifically for larger organisations where Consolidated Billing has been enabled, it’s…
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AWS

AWS – Consolidated Billing not Providing a Single Invoice?

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Shaun Wilkinson

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September 8, 2023

You can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts, but what if this isn’t working and despite following the available AWS documentation you still don’t seem to be receiving Consolidated Billing? I’ll give you something to check that may fix…
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Linux, Microsoft

How to use ReShade on Proton/Linux

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August 14, 2023

This is another article which is vaguely in the ‘Moving from Windows to Linux’ series. ReShade is a generic post-processing injector for games and video software developed by crosire. Imagine your favorite game with ambient occlusion, real depth of field effects, color correction and more … ReShade exposes an automated…
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Games, Linux

Moving from Windows to Linux – How to Limit Game FPS in Steam

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July 21, 2023

The old adage “How do you know somebody is a Linux user? Because they’ll tell you” is about to hold up true. This is a bit of an odd one for this blog as I tend to limit it to more business-related topics, but I found a lack of proper…
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Linux

Moving from Windows to Linux – How to make the taskbar/panel look more like Windows

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July 20, 2023

The old adage “How do you know somebody is a Linux user? Because they’ll tell you” is about to hold up true. In this article I’m going to configure the taskbar/panel found in Linux Mint to make it a little more familiar, I have a multi-monitor setup so wanted to…
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Linux

Moving from Windows to Linux – Dual Booting

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July 19, 2023

The old adage “How do you know somebody is a Linux user? Because they’ll tell you” is about to hold up true. I’ve been keen to properly dip my toe’s into the Linux space for a good number of years, but haven used Windows since XP and having a career…
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Microsoft

How to Grant Access to Azure VM’s using Bastion

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June 9, 2023

Haven only recently embraced Bastion as one of the best methods to allow secure access to VM’s, I’m still very much learning the basics. After finding out that the process to grant a user access to a Virtual Machine via Bastion wasn’t quite as straightforward as expected. This short post…
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Other

How to flash the B650M DS3H with Q-Flash Plus

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May 29, 2023

Image credit: Speedrookie/Reddit Q-Flash Plus is a feature of newer motherboards that allows you to flash the BIOS without the need of a CPU, RAM or video card. It just requires a power supply for the motherboard and a specially formatted USB containing the bios update file. This feature is…
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Microsoft

How to Fix Power BI “Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access”

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May 26, 2023

We started to receive this error on the Microsoft “Emissions Impact Dashboard” recently. Although the error message was clear enough I wasn’t sure how I could provide MFA to Power BI and the majority of the guidance online states to remove MFA as a requirement which is almost always a…
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