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2018 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge – KringleCon
This Christmas I teamed up with my son and spent an enjoyable week at home completing the security challenge. After finally opening the piano-locked door to reveal the mastermind behind the whole KringleCon plan, we both felt that we had…
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Configuration Manager Update Issue – Windows 10 Servicing
In our environment we had computers with various versions of Windows 10. For example, 1511, 1607, and 1703. Having multiple versions of Windows 10 meant having to deal with multiple group policies, sets of ADMX templates, security settings, etc. Our…
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Lync Server 2013 issue with Exchange Autodiscovery
I wrote this article is to try and correct some of the bad guidance already published on the Internet regarding a certain Lync/Skype server issue that we were facing in one of the environments that we support. Symptoms In our…
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Migrate a WordPress blog site hosted on Microsoft Azure
It has been a bit more than a year since I put together the Novotips blog site using a dedicated server hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud service. This article describes my recent positive experience migrating this blog to an updated…
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Setup a KeePass password management solution for multiple computers
Scenario The number of accounts and passwords that I use seems to be growing each year and has reached a point where I need to rely upon a password manager. This article describes how I implemented a KeePass password management…
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Microsoft Cloud App Security – A First Look
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the Microsoft Cloud App Security service for quite some time. The official Microsoft product page, (http://www.cloudappsecurity.com ), just became available today (6th April, 2016). I recommend that you treat this as a jump…
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Installing Azure AD Connect on an Exchange Server
Scenario Coconut is a regional airline that is headquartered in Cyprus with branch offices located in several cities throughout Europe. Until now Coconut has utilised an on-premises Microsoft Exchange server solution to provide email for all employees. Coconut has also…
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Missing plan in Office 365 planner hub
Earlier in the week I experienced an Office 365 planner issue that I hadn’t come across before. I believe that the issue occurred after one of the following events (I’m not sure which one): Changing my user account (synced with…
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Office 365 unencrypted PST file upload feature
In this blog article you can read about my recent experience using the Office 365 unencrypted PST file upload feature. The procedure that I followed is described in the following Microsoft TechNet Library article: Article Name: Import unencrypted PST files…
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