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Starlink and stability

Connected a starlink dish to the home-setup – leveraging the Starlink Mini as the dish. Recommendation on the internet is to set the router in bypass-mode, however – connecting the dish directly to...

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Verify domain connectivity and Kerberos retrieval

Some steps repeated over and over again to verify domain connectivity…. nltest /dsgetdc:domain.topklist get cifs/node.domain.topklist cloud_debugResolve-DnsName _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.domain.top -type...

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Entra ID Joined, single-sign-on and 24H2 Security Baseline

Despite there beeing multiple explanations that access to an on-prem fileshare / print server should “just work” from an Entra ID Joined client as long as a few basic pre-requisites are inplace –...

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Onedrive and parsing log-files

Onedrive log-files are in a propietary format and troubleshooting with them is something else than read event logs or parsing text-files. Thankfully someone has written a python script to parse and...

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System error 1808 has occurred.

So, after offloading some fileshares to optimized NAS-storage (I think it is EMC? Or Dell? or something else) – we noticed that a new server had issues connecting to (mapping) the fileshare using the...

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Teamviewer and Windows Credentials

Teamviewer has a great article howto handle User Account Control prompts within QuickSupport or similiar solutions, and as part of that you are intended to provide your own credentials when...

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ConfigMgr and a Remote Content Library

ConfigMgr has since version 1806 been supporting a Remote Content Library, which in simplified terms means that you can decouple your existing infrastructure and place the Content Library on a...

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Pulse Secure and the bells around it

So you have implemented Pulse Secure as a VPN-solution? Well, here are somethings that just about every consulting firm or department eventually will ask you to implement along-side it – so the Pulse...

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Bitlocker and howto make your users love you

This is how you deploy Bitlocker and make everyone fall in love with you. 1. Don’t understand Bitlocker – and read some generic Microsoft guideline which provides you with a generic approach and...

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Windows 10 20H2 and Edge

To start of this blog-post we have to set a few basics… Windows 10 20H2 includes Edge Chromium. Specifically – Edge Chromium v84 (something something) If you deploy Edge Chromium later version (like...

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Defender for Endpoint – Whats the user count?

Whats the user count for users actually logged onto your devices – looking through Defender For Endpoint? Quick-glance; DeviceLogonEvents | where AccountDomain == "YOURDOMAIN" | where LogonType in...

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CMPivot and SMB1

Ned Pyle has ensured there is a Event-log that details any attempts to communicate with SMB1 (incase this still is enabled on your endpoint). It exists both for SMBServer and SMBClient See his great...

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Troubleshoot Office crashes – quick guide

Wrote these notes on how so many Office issues were solved. Sadly – this still applies – and a recent thread from Twitter reminded me that it might be useful. Printer Temporarily set the printer to...

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NTUser.dat and last updated

Regardless what type of estate of Windows-devices, there always seems to be a need of clearing out unused profiles from a computer to save diskspace, increase performance and what not. In Windows 7...

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WSUS Cleanup

Despite multiple articles of howto maintain a WSUS database for performance and scalability – there was always a performance issue dragging across which made all the cleanup jobs take forever. An...

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EnableFastFirstSignin–howto set it up

EnableFastFirstSignin seems to be a semi-announced feature that is only possible to configure using a Provisioning Package. I think the official documentation states that it is in preview. But, let’s...

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Lenovo and BIOS Settings

Lenovo has provided numerous series of devices, which apparently do not have an aligned standard of handling BIOS / UEFI settings or BIOS / UEFI upgrades. As part of this headache and to ease the...

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Supersedence and how it is not a feature

Supersedence was supposedly a great new feature for ConfigMgr 2012 (released in… you guessed it..) that was part of the Application Model. App-model held so many promises, however it was actually quite...

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Apple iTunes 12.7 and Software License Agreement registry key

iTunes is the ugly step-child (or the Meg, or the bastard) of the Apple family. As iPhone still remains the phone of choice within my family and quite a few corporations there is still a need from time...

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ConfigMgr – Howto generate an inbox-backlog

Ever wondered how someone can generate an enormous inbox-backlog for a Configuration Manager site? Apart from not scaling the environment correctly based on the performance of the infrastructure and...

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