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I grabbed a couple of Draytek Vigor AP902 access points to work in conjunction with my Draytek Vigor 2925 router and Draytek Vigor 910c access point. I dont mind the Draytek gear in general - for a home setup it is sufficient... however i did find i needed better wireless range thought that 3 AP's…
Continue readingAll I want for Christmas is a new security update to patch a zero day IE exploit ....... Microsoft have today released a new out of band update for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that is currently being abused in the wild. Just in time for all those Admins planning to have some time off and…
Continue readingIt'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…
Continue readingCross-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…
Continue readingThe 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 allowed nerds everywhere…
Continue readingLast 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…
Continue readingfrom 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…
Continue readingI came across an interesting issue today where I couldn't get applications to install on a specific piece of hardware during a task sequence. All task sequence steps would run fine, other than 'Application' installs - and they would work fine on other hardware. Looking in the smsts.log file, I could see the following error…
Continue readingAs 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…
Continue readingDate: 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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