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2024
Migrating Autopilot Hashes With Azure Tables
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        As part of a project to consolidate 3 organizations into 1 new organization, we decided as part of the IT consolidation, end user would go through a reset and re-register process to migrate their device from either BYOD or old environment corporate (Intune) managed to new environment corporate (Intune) managed.
      
      
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        As touched upon in my recent post, this infernal machine has had a bit of a facelift.
      
      
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LDAP properties not updated with NSCD
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        A colleague of mine shared with me a issue they were having with LDAP properties such as group memberships not being updated in a timely manner on some RHEL7 hosts that were running NSCD.
      
      
    Restore AD Attributes
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        Back in the year that is one long COVID induced fog, I wrote about how one can mount a old copy of an Active Directory Domain Services database from something such as a file level backup of a DC.
      
      
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Unable to delete items in a Exchange Mailbox
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        Have you ever got yourself into a situation in Outlook or OWA whereby you are cleaning out a mailbox and find you can no longer delete anymore items from the mailbox?
      
      
    Bypass Offline Files With This One Trick
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        Ever since moving to modern operating systems such as Windows 8 and beyond, I have found the Offline Files feature in the enterprise to be less and less of a value bringer and more of a support burden for the front line.
      
      
    Mounting An Active Directory Database Backup
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        We’ve all been there right; accidentally modified a Active Directory object that you weren’t meant to.
      
      
    Restore Out of Office Backup with Powershell
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        In my previous post, I discussed the need to set a special external facing Out of Office message for all shared mailboxes in the organisation.
      
      
    Unable to log into vCenter Appliance via Web
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        With everyone scrambling to patch the latest vulnerability to hit the VMware vCenter product, I came across some strange behaviour from our very own vCenter appliance running 6.
      
      
    Bulk Backup and Set Out of Office Messages
        
        
        
      
  
  
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        We live in very interesting times at the moment.