A few months ago I started looking for a new job. I wasn’t excited to start over again, but I wanted more challenges and technologies to work on. I remember starting my first few technology jobs, and thinking how difficult it was to find documentation for the servers and networks–I was even left to figure […]
DNS is pretty crucial in a domain environment. If you pull up DNS on your domain controller(s), you can see a listing of, well, a lot of different stuff–PC names to start in DNS > Forward Lookup Zones > domain name. There’s also reverse lookup zones, possibly even mail server records and even more. DNS […]
I wrote an article not too long ago about VLAN tagging from a post Cisco perspective. Since I covered the layer 2 aspect, I figured why not complete the setup and show how to configure Virtual Interfaces. I have a SonicWall handy, so I am going to demonstrate with that device. Besides routers/firewalls behaving vastly […]
Coming from a Cisco background, VLANs were pretty straight forward–especially from a switching perspective. Once you get your Router On a Stick setup, you decide which ports are access and which are trunks. It looks a little something like this: Interface FastEthernet 0/1 switchport mode access switchport access vlan 20 Now, port 0/1 is […]
Adding Office 365 licenses to users isn’t necessarily an arduous task, but letting security group assignment (whether on-premise or in Azure) provision the licenses for you is a nice way to automate the process. This can also make licensing reporting easier by simply looking at group assignment. To start, create a group with a relevant […]
In part one of this article series, we went over how to prevent access to Second Stage Recycle bin in individual OneDrive accounts. This method does not scale particularly well, so a global retention policy would be a more time effective solution–unless you want to try scripting out the former method. We find ourselves in […]
While SharePoint Online and OneDrive share a lot of commonalities, they begin to diverge when it comes to permissions and administration. An administrator in SharePoint online can access everything by default. Sites and document libraries can be adjusted to restrict even admin access–especially if users are allowed to make their own sites, but this can […]
Maybe it’s just me, but I really like control panel shortcuts. Not having to click through 5+ screens to get the correct administrative area gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. I’ve tried to find more through Google searches, but the list (even the ones proffered by Microsoft) never seem accurate. So, how do […]
I really enjoy a fully realized script with almost no required interaction. When working with on-premise or cloud accounts one of the things that can break the flow of a script is user credentials. While its not incredibly taxing to put the required username and password in each time, having PowerShell automatically import them feels […]
I am sure at one-point or another, you’ve probably poked around in Office 365 Security and Compliance Center. There are a host of features waiting to be leveraged in this area: Advanced email tracing, Data Loss Prevention, Audit Log Search, Attack Simulation Training and more. While I plan on writing more about these individuals features […]