technology
2024
Migrating Autopilot Hashes With Azure Tables
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system-administration
tech
sysadmin
technology
azure
intune
powershell
bicep
autopilot
azure tables
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.
The What
·526 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
sysadmin
technology
hugo
wordpress
azure
static web app
As touched upon in my recent post, this infernal machine has had a bit of a facelift.
We're Back
·103 words·1 min
random-blogging
tech
technology
hugo
wordpress
It’s true.
2021
LDAP properties not updated with NSCD
·534 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
ldap
linux
nscd
sssd
sysadmin
technology
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
·603 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
active-directory
adds
powershell
sysadmin
technology
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.
2020
Unable to delete items in a Exchange Mailbox
·383 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
exchange
exchange-2010
outlook
powershell
sysadmin
technology
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
·299 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
csc
offline-files
sysadmin
technology
windows
windows-10
windows-8
windows-server
windows-server-2012-r2
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
·639 words·3 mins
system-administration
tech
active-directory
adds
dsamain
esentutl
sysadmin
technology
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
·201 words·1 min
system-administration
tech
exchange
exchange-2010
powershell
sysadmin
technology
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
·274 words·2 mins
system-administration
tech
linux
photonos
sysadmin
systemd
technology
vcenter
vmware
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.