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I've recently had the fun of being involved in yet another merger. Fortunately, this time I've been a little smarter about it and resigned in advance. Not only because of how stressful mergers are — there were plenty of other reasons too. One of the things mergers inevitably bring to the surface is the wonderful…
Continue readingThe latest Exchange health check had an interesting addition - identification of deprecated exchange groups. The link that MS provide to get more detail on this doesn't really give any more detail on this.... so i went searching and found https://rafaelpfister.ch/blog/exchange-security-updates-juli-2026 which provides some interesting info - but doesn't really go into what to check…
Continue readingDevice prompts for Bitlocker recovery key at every restart If the device is a HP Elitebook 840 G9 (my example - but from what im seeing, this is affect other models as well) - and running BIOS version 1.18 The event log “Applications and services -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Bitlocker API -> Management” shows…
Continue readingIm coming up to 30 years in IT - and am now towards the end of my career.... On one hand, i've liked designing and implementing solutions... and like solving issues.... but on the other, IT is not a great industry.... not really respected (probably fairly), many very poorly skilled people around that get paid…
Continue readingI've seen a few guides around the about this - but they seem to mainly focused on using Intune - which has the significant downside of not being able to handle systems which aren't supported by Intune, such as servers and air-gapped systems. Now - this is just the way ive been doing it…
Continue readingAfter deleting some groups recently, i had the following error in AADConnect The groups i deleted were indeed licensing groups - but they were associated with our E3 licenses, which are no longer valid (we moved to e5) - and no longer show up in the portal - so, i (fairly) assumed they were good…
Continue readingA while back, one of the main vendors for the organisation im now working for had a bit of an indignant chuckle when i asked for their supposed enterprise-grade software to have a silent install.... "Just use the click-once version - its fine for everyone else" Well - needless to say, i saw red, what…
Continue readingGPPrefs are great - but in true MS fashion - they are very much a bolt-on from when they were acquired many years ago - and the ability to script reading values (let alone creation) is somewhere limited due to this. This dude made a fantastic script to document GPPref drive mappings here https://365lab.net/2013/12/31/getting-all-gpp-drive-maps-in-a-domain-with-powershell/ You…
Continue readingThe current company im working for is a large (for Aus) media company and as such, because basically everyone that works here is into marketing and sales, we just have a ridiculous number of domains. As part of the cleanup process here - i bought up the huge number of domains we had and that…
Continue readingIf you work in a MS-based environment, it is likely you have seen that as of January 27th 2025, you will start getting charged for retained OneDrive data. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/unlicensed-onedrive-accounts?WT.mc_id=365AdminCSH_spo The storage cost for the will be $US 0.05/GB/Month - which can add up very quickly. https://mc.merill.net/message/MC836942 In the environment i've recently started working in, there…
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