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Continue reading →: Moving from Windows to Linux – Dual BootingThe 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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Continue reading →: How to Grant Access to Azure VM’s using BastionHaven 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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Continue reading →: How to flash the B650M DS3H with Q-Flash PlusImage 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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Continue reading →: 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”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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Continue reading →: How to Export Azure DevOps Service Connection Details using PowerShellI’ve recently been looking to report on and remove old unneeded Azure Service Connections found in Azure DevOps and found that any actual information on how to do this or existing scripts to do it for me were sorely lacking. As such I’ve developed a working example, which can be…
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Continue reading →: Unable to Break Lease on Azure Blob Storage due to attached Virtual Machine
I recently came across a situation whereby I wasn’t able to break a lease on an old .vhd file within Blob Storage. The issue was caused by a Virtual Machine which had since been deleted but still retained a lease lock on the file. Azure will helpfully tell you which…
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Continue reading →: Exchange 2013/2016 – Select an Organizational Unit shows “There are no items to show in this view”This was a frustrating issue to deal with in a large environment, effectively if you open any “Select an Organization Until” window such as when configuring rules for dynamics distribution groups you may see either a small number of OU records or no OU records at all, with the window…
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Continue reading →: Datto RMM – Close Alerts Older Than, using PowerShell
The PowerShell script below will connect to Datto RMM’s cloud platform, specifically the Merlot API, and close all non-critical alerts older than a specified date. This is all easily configurable and by simply changing the API endpoints should allow you to connect to any of Datto’s available regions. For information…
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Continue reading →: Exchange – Remove List of Permissions from Exchange Mailboxes
The PowerShell code below will take a CSV list of mailboxes and Users/Groups to remove from that mailbox. This allows you to quickly and efficiently remove old permissions across Exchange.
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Continue reading →: PowerShell – How-To Retrieve SPN’s for all Servers
Yet another short one with little context or reason. A colleague of mine needed a list of all Service Principal Names assigned to all servers on the estate. Searches online brought us to a few potential solutions, most of which included the use of some difficult to use and understand…
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