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A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients inbox, all was happy. Unfortunately scumbags hackers and thieves decided to take Read more…
UPDATED: Feb 3 2025 In 2025 the world of so called Generative AI is fast changing and very confusing to most people. There are new products seemingly every day and they many of them have similar names. Some are from companies we all know and some are from startups. Some Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
Host Caching in Azure came from SCSI RAID controllers with RAM on them, when we had physical machines. The idea is that the disk does not have to wait for everything to be read or written onto the disk before continuing, because the RAID controller has it queue in its Read more…
We recently had a client who wanted to audit their Azure users. They wanted a list containing After several hours of polishing, mostly by our script guru Khalid Abdullahi, we came up with the script below.
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
Yesterday we had client with many IP and DNS problems and the screenshot below was taken after we cleaned up about half of them. As you can see, 168.63.129.16 is used both as a DHCP server and as a DNS FORWARDER, and the name shows up as <UNABLE TO RESOLVE>. Read more…
This is an argument I am so very tired of having so I decided to prove it. In about 1998, I recall reading a paper co-written with United States Department of Defense and Microsoft, which explained why adding a single character length to a password was far superior to adding Read more…
I was working with a client earlier this week who had brought in a security company to tighten up their infrastructure because they were a victim of a major hack just before we were brought in. That security company did a number of things to user accounts we found… odd, Read more…
We have published a number of relatively complex powershell cloud shell scripts to take snapshots of virtual machines. This is a simple script that is useful for those who are working with a single resource group in a single subscription, like most SMB’s. If you are running this via PowerShell Read more…
If you look at the properties of an Azure File Share you will see the FILE SYSTEM is showing as MAFS. Microsoft uses “Azure Files” for Azure File Shares. Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol Read more…
When launching an Excel file on local computer that that contains a macro, all works as expected. However, when running that same file from an network drive or an Azure file Share your macros don’t work and you see a SECURITY RICK banner stating “A potentially dangerous macro has been Read more…
We are always being asked to expand disk and add new disk to VM’s on Azure and there is some confusion around the process. Expanding a disk on an Azure virtual machine (WM) is easy: Here are the two catches: Adding a New Drive to An Azure VM Adding new Read more…
If you’re used to working with Microsoft CoPilot in the Microsoft Edge browser you may. It respond with Attempting to Reconnect… and then having nothing happen. This can be very frustrating but there is very easy fix. To clear the ATTEMPTING TO RECONNECT error, simple surf to either: As soon Read more…
We do a lot of work with our clients remotely and often end up using their Microsoft 365 licenses temporarily to access their data or systems. As you can see in the screenshot below I had a situation in which my clients Microsoft 365 Apps For Enterprise stayed connected after Read more…
If you are a Microsoft partner you will probably have become aware that in January the Microsoft Action Pack that has been around for the better part of two decades is going away. There are several options but for most small partners the replacement is called the Partner Launch Benefits Read more…