How To Create A Windows Certificate – And Export It
By default, a certificate that is submitted to, and issued by, a Windows Certificate Authority (CA) cannot be exported with its private key. A customer was recently executing a project [...]
Revisiting Active Directory Migration Tool
It had been many years – a decade in fact since I had cause to get involved in migrating users, computer accounts, and groups from one Active Directory Forest to [...]
Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop
Presenting a desktop in Microsoft Azure has the usual history of many names and some false starts. Going back to somewhere close to the beginning there was the basic [...]
Changes to Admin Permissions for Microsoft Partner
The Current Situation It’s perhaps a little misleading to go with the word current because the situation has been evolving for a little while, but it’s the most suitable word [...]
Considerations for Migrating to Exchange Online
It seems that the organizations who are still using on-premises Exchange fall into a couple of categories; ones where there is too much legacy infrastructure in place and ones where [...]
Microsoft 365 Defender – Licensing and Key Features
Microsoft what now? Microsoft has brought its security products, frameworks, and investigation solutions under one umbrella: the Defender suite. So, all the different protection services, both on the local [...]
How To Block an Application on iOS
Infrastructure Security It will not have escaped anyone’s attention that certain applications have come under scrutiny for being buggy, leaky, or maybe simply downright undesirable to a corporation or government [...]
Migrating from TFS to Azure DevOps Services
Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps Services are both popular development platforms used by software teams around the world. Many organizations have begun to make the switch from [...]
How to use Microsoft Teams for Teams Calling
Microsoft teams and team calling has the ability to make your teams application work like a desk phone. This can in some cases be more useful and cost-efficient than having [...]
Whitelisting IPs or Domains in Office 365
Whitelisting can be very helpful to any organization whether it’s an MSP or an individual System Administrator. By whitelisting IPs or domains, you can prevent certain emails from getting stuck [...]