Demystifying Centralized Mail Transport and Criteria Based Routing https://ift.tt/3bDXomR Centralized Mail Transport (CMT) has been in Exchange Online for a while, and we often see customers using it without even realizing why. Because CMT introduces message routing complexity, increases the needed bandwidth because of additional message hops, and creates a dependency on the on-premises Exchange […]
General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations https://ift.tt/31ukpql Azure Site Recovery now supports the failover of your secondary IP configurations for your Azure VMs. With this release, you can configure the failover and test failover settings for each secondary IP configuration. Also, the network configuration experience has been enhanced. You […]
Let’s Encrypt explains last month’s outages caused by certificate expiration https://ift.tt/3BuwmIZ Dozens of websites and services reported issues late last month thanks to the expiration of a root certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt, one of the largest providers of HTTPS certificates. Let’s Encrypt and other researchers had long warned that the IdentTrust DST Root CA […]
Automating Data Collection for Memory, CPU, and Disk issues using CLUE https://ift.tt/3DEJtJa Automating Data Collection for Memory, CPU, and Disk issues My name is Susan Buchanan, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the Windows Performance Team at Microsoft. Does Performance Data Collection got you singing the Blues? This blog addresses how to troubleshoot […]
Configuring iSCSI Datastore (LUN) on VMware ESXi https://ift.tt/3vBw41v In VMware vSphere, you can use an iSCSI disk as a shared datastore for your ESXi hosts. An ESXi host accesses iSCSI storage over your local network using the TCP protocol. In this article, we’ll look at how to add an iSCSI LUN to a VMWare ESXi […]
WIM Witch v3.2.0 – Windows 11 and Server 2022 Support https://ift.tt/3C6rydL This release of WIM Witch brings support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 image servicing. While building in the support, decisions were made to bring package handling for Windows Server in-line with future releases of this OS class. Subsequently, there are some breaking […]
New free VMware tool: Virtual Machine Desired State Configuration (VMDSC) https://ift.tt/3nnjY8H The new free VMware tool, Virtual Machine Desired State Configuration (VMDSC), allows you to optimize the performance of your virtual infrastructure without impacting business-critical VMs. You can modify the configuration of VMs that need vCPU or memory changes without rebooting them. The changes are […]
NDES Security Best Practices https://ift.tt/3iRJYYd Hi, I am Dagmar, working for the Microsoft Compromise Recovery Security Practice team. As NDES (Network Device Enrollment Server) – if misconfigured or not secured and hardened properly – can be a door opener for the compromise of an Active Directory, I decided to collect and write down security best practices. A brief History of SCEP and NDES The Network Device Enrollment […]
Three Active Directory vulnerabilities were addressed in the October 2021 Updates https://ift.tt/3lzouBa When looking at the October 12th, 2021 updates today, I noticed three updates that specifically address vulnerabilities in Active Directory Domain Services and DNS. These vulnerabilities affect domain controllers at the heart of many networking infrastructure environments. About the vulnerabilities Three vulnerabilities were […]
Identity-related sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2021 Fall Edition https://ift.tt/2Z3bYSe Microsoft’s Ignite 2021 Fall event kicks off in two weeks. Exactly eight months after Microsoft Ignite 2021 Spring Edition (organized from Tuesday March 2nd to Thursday March 4th, 2021), Microsoft’s Ignite 2021 Fall event takes place from Tuesday November 2nd to Thursday November 4th, 2021) This […]
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