Overview Microsoft announced that the classic Teams for VDI will reach the end of support on October 1, 2024, and end of availability on July 1, 2025. After that date, users won’t be able to use classic Teams but instead be prompted to switch to new Teams. We recommend you update to new Teams today. Note: New Teams for VDI is now generally available for customers in public clouds, GCC, GCC High and DoD government cloud....
Overview Today, I experienced Active domain controller replication issue after the primary domain controller (DC that hold the PDC roles) was suddenly went back to 1879. This situation caused the replication break as the Primary domain controller was tagged as tombstone. Server environment ServerName FSMO Role DC01 Schema master, naming master,PDC, RID pool manager,Infrastructure master DC02 Secondary Domain Controller and DNS DC03 Secondary Domain Controller and DNS Issue All replication from DC01 to DC02 and DC03 or vice versa breaks with Tombstone reason as the following:...
Overview To create a Windows firewall rule that blocks all .exe files located within a specific folder, you may use the following powershell command: Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apps" *.exe | Select-Object Name,FullName | ForEach-Object ` {New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Block $($_.Name) Inbound" -Direction Inbound -Program "$($_.FullName)" -Action Block; New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Block $($_.Name) Outbound" -Direction Outbound -Program "$($_.FullName)" -Action Block}
Overview If you are planning to migrate the Sophos security software to another security product, you have to plan how to remove this Sophos software from all of the workstation. Here are the procedures for removing the Sophos Security software from all workstation via script and Active Directory GPO. Before you begin. Find the uninstall string. Sophos use the same software strings for the endpoint agent downloaded on the same version or tenant, but use a different string for different version....
Overview: Unlike Windows desktop version such Windows 10, or 11 that by default come with Winget pre-installed, and allow us to install Windows Terminal easily from the Microsoft store, Windows Server 2022 edition doesn’t include these applications by default, and it doesn’t include Microsoft store pre-installed. So, here are the commands to install the Terminal and Winget on Windows server 2022. # Installing Prerequisites Start-BitsTransfer -Source 'https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/releases/download/v2.8.6/Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8.x64.appx' -Destination $home\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.appx Add-AppxPackage $home\Microsoft....
Overview New Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) includes ARM64 updates to support the deployment and management of updates for devices that run on ARM64 architecture. ARM64 is an architecture used in many modern devices, including laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices, as well as some servers. Unfortunately, there are still not many devices that use arm64 CPU, and WSUS doesn’t have the option to filter the update based on the architecture of the CPU that result the update for ARM64 architecture will be automatically download if we enable the Auto Approve....
This article was copied from the KB5028997 Instruction Microsoft Offical Link, with some additional information. Overview Microsoft has changed how it updates PCs that run the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). WinRE will be updated using the monthly cumulative update. This change only applies to PCs that get updates from Windows Update (WU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). This change starts on June 27, 2023, for the Windows 11, version 22H2 cumulative update....
Overview Zabbix supports Certificate-based and pre-shared key-based encryption to encrypt the communication between the server and host agent. This article describes the necessary steps to enable a Pre-shared (PSK) encryption for securing the comunication between the Zabbix agent and Zabbix server: Configuration steps The key point of using the PSK is, the server and the agent need to use the same key to make them able to communicate. Therefore, we will need to set the PSK on both server and the host agent....
Overview Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) is a Windows feature that automatically manages and backs up the password of a local administrator account on your Microsoft Entra joined or Windows Server Active Directory-joined devices. You also can use Windows LAPS to automatically manage and back up the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) account password on your Windows Server Active Directory domain controllers. An authorized administrator can retrieve the DSRM password and use it....
Overview For a Global Admin Sign into the Azure portal. - https://portal.azure.com/ Browse to Azure Active Directory > Users > All users. Choose the user you wan to reset. Go to authentication. Click Require re-register multifactor authentication If want to change his/her phone number: At the top of the window, select + Add authentication method. Select a method (phone number or email). Email may be used for self-password reset but not authentication....