How Microsoft Mission Critical Team Helped Secure AAD https://ift.tt/3ke9KVK Hello everyone and welcome to our mind-blowing series of blogs we have lined up to show you the significant impact of the Azure Active Directory Security Features had for one of our SMC customer. This blog is a cumulative effort from the Mission Critical Team […]
PowerShell Basics: How to Delete Microsoft Teams Cache for All Users https://ift.tt/2OmGD3N Sometimes there is a need to delete Microsoft Teams cache to quicken the adoption of an in-band policy change or simply troubleshoot an issue. The challenge here is that the cache for Microsoft Teams is in multiple directories. This can be done manually but […]
How to Troubleshoot Windows Server Network connectivity issues via PowerShell https://ift.tt/31BH8ie We all have been there, we want to set up a new application or agent which needs network access and needs to reach an endpoint using a specific port, but it simply doesn’t work. So as a server admin, we need to have a […]
Traditional Failover Clustering in Azure https://ift.tt/3f4ZxXK Hello folks, Last month I presented a session during the “Windows Server webinar miniseries – Month of Cloud Essentials”. The session was on how to create highly available apps with Azure VMs. Following the session I was asked about setting up traditional Windows Server Clusters. During that conversation […]
Troubleshoot event ID 1020 warnings on a file server that is running Windows Server https://ift.tt/3hM3zX0 Symptoms On a Windows Server-based file server, the following Event ID 1020 entry that contains warnings from SMB-Server is logged in the Microsoft-Windows-SMBServer/Operational event log: File system operation has taken longer than expected. Client Name: <Client-IP/Name> Client Address: <Client-IP>:<Client-Port> User Name: […]
Azure AD Connect v1.5.42.0 introduces Exporting and Importing Configurations https://ift.tt/2Cyl0e0 Last Friday, a new version of Azure AD Connect was released: version 1.5.42.0. This version offers Import/Export functionality and a couple of fixes. After every fresh major release of Azure AD Connect by Microsoft, several smaller hotfix releases update the functionality to prevent issues where […]
Certificate is missing in IIS binding window https://ift.tt/2AAYLDU If you add a certificate to Server Certificates in IIS but you don’t see it in the binding window, there are two things to check first: Make sure the certificate you added to “Server Certificates” is the one you created a “Certificate Request” for. If you add a certificate that […]
Getting Started with Testing Infrastructure Code https://ift.tt/2NPM5Ms Hi, my name is Bernie White, I am a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft. Today I’d like to show you how you can get started with testing infrastructure code using an open source project called PSRule within Azure Pipelines. Within a DevOps culture, implementing testing embedded […]
Microsoft 365 Certification and Exam Updates https://ift.tt/3g3ruQJ To ensure that Microsoft Certifications remain current, the certification program is continually reviewed to ensure that certifications reflect the latest in Microsoft technologies and associated job roles. Based on the reviews, changes to the certification program are made to best reflect market and business needs. Occasionally, this means retiring exams and/or certifications. When an exam or certification is retired, our goal is to provide with you […]
Defending Exchange servers under attack https://ift.tt/3fNTc3M Securing Exchange servers is one of the most important things defenders can do to limit organizational exposure to attacks. Any threat or vulnerability impacting Exchange servers should be treated with the highest priority because these servers contain critical business data, as well as highly privileged accounts that attackers attempt […]
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