Bare Metal Recovery Test Scenario https://ift.tt/36NRbC7 In this post, we will share on few case scenarios to do bare metal recovery (BMR) using Veeam Agent. We will limit the environment to a) on-prem repository b) secondary repository c) local storage d) NAS storage Scenario A Env: Backup to local storage (another disk) or Veeam Backup […]
How to Configure and Manage Windows Server Core: Basic Commands https://ift.tt/3eFAn4Q In this article, I tried to describe basic cmd and PowerShell commands used to configure and manage Windows Server Core. I think this guide will be useful both for beginners and experienced system administrators as a reference to basic Server Core administration commands. Server […]
Understanding the Azure Virtual Desktop Resources https://ift.tt/3BkjM07 In this post, I will document the resources used in Azure Virtual Desktop. This is a work-in-progress, so any updates I discover along the way will be added. You should also check out a similar post on Azure Image Builder. Host Pool – Microsoft.DesktopVirtualization/hostpools The host pool documents […]
Checking Active TCP/IP Connections on Windows with PowerShell https://ift.tt/2UtvogE Many administrators usually use the netstat console tool or graphic TCPView to display information about active TCP/IP connections and open TCP ports in Windows. Instead of netstat, you can use the Get-NetTCPConnection cmdlet in PowerShell to get information about active network connections in Windows, open TCP […]
Notes from the field: some common dependencies for Microsoft 365 deployments https://ift.tt/3eyV7uZ My blog posts take a while to get published these days. I struggle to find the time to write them and often a few notes can remain in draft form for a long time. Some of those notes never make it. Others possibly […]
Caching Domain Logon Credentials on Windows https://ift.tt/3fZ0RiS When a domain user logs on to Windows, their credentials are saved on a local computer by default (Cached Credentials: a user name and a password hash). This allows the user to logon to the computer even if the AD domain controllers are unavailable, powered off, or the […]
Apply a Local Group Policy to Non-Admins or a Single User with MLGPO https://ift.tt/3vrhCZ4 You can use Local Group Policy to configure Windows or user settings on computers in small workgroup networks (without an AD domain). Earlier, the main disadvantage of a local GPO was the inability to apply the policy settings to the specific […]
How to create a NAT-Switch on Hyper-V with PowerShell https://ift.tt/3umSvX3 NAT is a technology to convert IP addresses. If you have a test environment then it might be necessary that your VMs need an internet connection and that you don’t want to use the external switch for that. In this blog post I will cover […]
Security by Design with #Azure Security Center and Azure Defender #ASC #Security #SecOps https://ift.tt/3exkdcX Azure Architecture Security by Design is increasingly becoming the mainstream development approach to ensure security of software systems. Security architectural design decisions are based on well-known security tactics, and patterns defined as reusable techniques for achieving specific quality concerns. In the […]
Azure Network Security Hygiene with Traffic Analytics https://ift.tt/2QSfzxT Hello, dear readers! My name is Hélder Pinto and I am sharing here some tips about how to leverage NSG Flow Logs and Traffic Analytics to improve your Azure network security hygiene and, at the end, simplify your NSG rules and, more importantly, uncover security vulnerabilities. […]
