Windows and NTP

It's important that Windows time is set correctly - but how Windows time works seems to be a poorly understood area. In this article, I'll try to clear up the concepts and explain what is, in my opinion, the best way to implement time services throughout your domain(s). Background Windows, by default, will automatically set…

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Active Directory 2019 and Exchange 2019 – what's new

Cross-post with http://www.hayesjupe.com/active-directory-2019-and-exchange-2019-whats-new/ The short answer is - not much. Exchange 2019 was released a few weeks back, but was effectively un-usable, as Exchange 2019 requires Windows Server 2019.... and Windows server 2019 got pulled from release (like Windows 10 1809) due to some issues. Windows Server 2019 was re-released a few days ago, which…

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Cloud should stay up forever, right? Well, no.

Last month there was an outage in the Azure – South Central US region, which, by reports, seemed to have some knock on effects for other regions. This was reported at: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/04/azure_its_getting_hot_in_here/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-south-central-u-s-datacenter-outage-takes-down-a-number-of-cloud-services/ In the discussions that followed with our customers, particularly with those currently considering their digital transformation strategies including moves to Office 365…

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Deploy Win32 applications with Intune

from http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2018/09/24/deploy-win32-applications-with-microsoft-intune/ The ability to “package” applications for deployment in Microsoft Intune is something that has been highly requested by many organisations making the move to management of devices through Intune. Although there is a fundamental difference in deploying applications through Configuration Manager and Intune, Microsoft is developing tools to provide similar functionality across the…

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Always on VPN – technical follow up

As a follow up to my article a few days ago on Always on VPN vs DA - http://www.hayesjupe.com/always-on-vpn-and-da-a-comparison/ - an employee of mine was having a test with some spare time today and came up with the following findings. Configured and tested the VPN server using L2TP/IPSec + PSK, User/Pass using MS-CHAP-V2 Attempted to…

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Always on VPN and DA – a comparison

Date: 04/09/2018 For a while now, Microsoft salespeople have been telling customers that Direct Access is old technology and that Windows 10 always on VPN is the way to go. There are a number of points which are widely acknowledged when it comes to DA vs Always on VPN, most of which can be found…

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