We’re going over two things today. Kind of. On top of learning how to Ingest Policy Templates (ADMX) into Intune Force Installing Microsoft Defender Browser Protection on Google Chrome AND we’ll do that by building on what we learned in the GroupPolicy Administrative Templates (ADMX): What are they? How are they used? Andwhat if I need…
…And analyzing GPO readiness for imports and migrations! …and For Those Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too! This post is meant as both a stand-alone guide but also as a Part 2 for Running CIS Assessments for Hardening (grome.dev). Well, kind of. I could have sworn I’d already done a write-up on how to…
This post is pretty heavy on the on-premise/hybrid/Windows Server/Active Directory side of things; so if you’re new to that then I recommend you read: Group Policy Administrative Templates (ADMX): What are they? How are they used? And what if I need to update them? Ingesting Policy Templates (ADMX) into Intune And/Or if you’re new to…
A few months ago, I found myself setting up an on-prem server rack with one of my “Off-The-Shelf” standard solutions. Pretty easy job but what took the longest was the massive amount of documentation the client asked me to write up for compliance purposes. Step. By. Step. Kids; you wouldn’t believe how much of my…
OK. Let me admit something. I did a write-up for some internal documentation at VENZO… and I copy/pasted quite a bit of this section pretty much all of it from How to enable WinRM with domain controller Group Policy for WMI monitoring – Auvik Support so kudos to the original author! But to be honest; it’s been…
And Hey! You! Yes, you! Do you remember when I wrote a post about How to Install Windows as a Hyper-V Virtual Machine? Of course you do! And as useful as having Virtual Machines (VM) on your box is! There are other ways to use VMs. Like Azure! Azure VMs is that you don’t have to worry about…
Last time(!), some dastardly devil wrote a Part 1 guide on how to reset your administrator password via the On-Screen Keyboard and despite: It being a handy workaround for forgetful people; and Microsoft treating this as an acceptable risk …it is still pretty stupid. And, so, a colleague of mine asked the blindingly obvious… How do you…
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….
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…