This NTP troubleshooting guide is a quick set of reliable w32tm commands for validating time synchronization issues on Windows systems. This post provides a practical cheat sheet for validating NTP configuration, identifying common issues, and
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask whether I had a script that would retrieve computer objects in an Active Directory OU and check each item for a service status and
Many organizations are and will continue to have a hybrid environment where user accounts are created on an on-premise Active Directory and their mailboxes are created in Exchange Online linked to their Entra ID synchronized
Back when I was still working on a lot of Exchange on-premise to Exchange Online migrations, I came across a small client who had disabled the following setting for the majority of their users: Automatically
One of the projects I’ve been working on was a small Azure Virtual Desktop deployment for resources outside of Canada to securely access a VDI in Azure’s Canada Central region. To provide a “block all
I recently had a customer ask me what would happen to a Microsoft Teams Team if the owner, which is an on-premise AD account synced into Azure AD, was disabled or deleted and as I
I’ve recently been asked about why Log Analytics was not able to capture Security logs from a Windows server as it is not an option under the Log name list: The short answer is because
Problem You’ve completed setting up Carbon Black Cloud to be deployed via GPO as described in one of my previous posts: Deploying Carbon Black Cloud via GPO with a transform (MST) file specifying the Company
I was recently asked about deploying Carbon Black Cloud Sensor via Group Policy as a published MSI file and recall how much difficulty I had with incorporating the settings for the Company Code and Group
Years ago when I first started working with Azure, I was very excited about the release of Azure Files because it would allow migrating traditional Windows file servers to the cloud without having an IaaS
