 So now that my clickbait title has gotten your attention – let me first say that I am not joking. I did! But what we’re talking about is a throwaway test VM with Windows Server 2022. Naturally I expect anyone reading this blog to have adequate breakglass protocols 😉 But, that said, this tiny annoyance…
In this, my latest and straightest, blog post! We’ll start setting up a Hybrid Active Directory lab environment starting with the whats, whys, hows, and whos (?) of the Active Directory Connect tool! Let’s be honest with ourselves. On-premise set-ups aren’t going away anytime soon and Hybrid is here to stay for the foreseeable future….
Group Policy Administrative Templates are registry-based policy settings and provide an XML-based structure for defining the display of administrative template policy settings in the Group Policy Editor. Now I know the name of this blog is Thomas’ head in the cloud so why all the focus on on-premise tech? It’s because understanding how these templates…
This is a very shallow guide to be read in conjunction with Azure AD Connect: Your first step towards an Hybrid Windows Environment. It was originally part of that post but it started getting a bit long so I decided to throw it into a post of its own. If you’re new to Windows sysadmin’ing and…
Ransomware is one of, if not the most, dangerous threat to organizations, and smaller businesses sometimes lack the resources to implement a security solution. Cyber attack threat scenarios have become more complicated than ever. Organizations with limited resources attempt to keep up with the going-ons while ensuring they have a zero-trust security policy that adapts…
Now this is an either / or guide. In order to join a device to both an On-Premise instance of Active Directory and Azure AD require a hybrid join. Which I will eventually be covering at some point. Just not as part of the Basics Tag series. On top of that, this is going to be a…