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Microsoft, PowerShell

PowerShell – How to Retrieve Specific Events From All Servers

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Shaun Wilkinson

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June 16, 2022

Occasionally you may have to implement something which will improve the security of your organisation but that does introduce a risk. Often the correct way to determine if it will cause issues is to enable logging and then to review those logs. But what if you don’t have centralised logging?…
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Microsoft

Exchange 2016 – User account isn’t a member of the ‘Schema Admins’ or ‘Enterprise Admins’ group

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Shaun Wilkinson

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May 24, 2022

This is a frustrating issue to come across when trying to roll out AD Schema Updates during an Exchange Cumulative Upgrade. But luckily it’s normally quite simple to resolve, this article will cover the various solutions from most to least likely to fix the issue.
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Microsoft

How to Search Subfolders in System Center 2012 – SCCM

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Shaun Wilkinson

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March 31, 2022

The amount of time wasted before realising how to do this simple thing isn’t worth thinking about, but luckily it’s very easy in SCCM to search in all subfolders and it can be done by doing the following – Navigate to any asset that contains a search bar at the…
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AntiVirus, Microsoft

Windows 11 – Fix Missing Defender / Windows Security

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Shaun Wilkinson

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March 7, 2022

I’ve recently encountered an issue on Windows 11 devices whereby Windows Defender and the Security portal refuse to open, with it showing a “You’ll need a new app to open this windowsdefender link” popup. This appears to stem from a corrupt app install after one of the recent patches.
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Microsoft, Outlook, PowerShell

Exchange – Extend Email Approval Expiration

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Shaun Wilkinson

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February 23, 2022

Exchange has a brilliant feature called ‘Email approval’ that can be configured using mail flow rules. This allows emails to configured recipients to be redirected to a user or a mailbox where it must be approved before reaching it’s final destination. By default, any emails awaiting approval for between 2-7…
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Dynamics 365, Microsoft

Dynamics 365 – Entity Type Code List

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Shaun Wilkinson

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February 22, 2022

This article is a repost of an article that exists on SPandCRM.com which I’m slowly moving to this blog. Another quick reference article today, in this article I’ll provide a list of type codes which are internal ID references to entities and I’ll provide some and SQL query that will…
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Personal Projects

BLE POC Tracking System – Implementation Notes – Testing, Results & Conclusion

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Shaun Wilkinson

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February 22, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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Microsoft

Simple Node.js Express CosmosDB Pagination

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Shaun Wilkinson

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February 16, 2022

I struggled to find a simple example of how I could return paginated results from an Azure CosmosDB from a Node.js Express application. Luckily, I eventually came across a brilliant article by Elio Struyf which can be found here – Retrieving the CosmosDB query continuation token in Node.js. I’ll post…
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Personal Projects

BLE POC Tracking System – Implementation Notes – Software & Trilateration

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Shaun Wilkinson

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February 15, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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Personal Projects

BLE POC Tracking System – Implementation Notes – Programming NRF51822 BLE & ESP8266 Wi-Fi Chip

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Shaun Wilkinson

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February 8, 2022

I’ve recently completed an Honours Degree in Software Development and as part of this I spent a few months off and on working on a proof of concept tracking system utilising Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) in order to track small asset tags. I believe this system could quite easily be…
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