Group Policy Troubleshooting – Stale DNS
This one was a fun one that really threw me for a loop. DNS is an issue no matter where you go. Recently facebook showed the world how DNS can take everything down. DNS in your domain is…
Enable/Disable/Reset MFA with Powershell
How does one enable, disable, and reset a user’s MFA in Office 365? I was surprised by how much is required for enabling MFA. Enable MFA The first thing we do is Get the User from the Get-MsolUser.…
What depression feels like
Tis, Failure I feel,Conceal, Don’t Feel, Relinquish,Emotions Congealed.
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Delegation
A while back, a client called and told me he made a few new group policies, and they were not working as expected. He stated some policies applied to the wrong users, while another didn’t apply at all…
Test Microsoft Service Connections
This past week I have had multiple terminals up with different clients on different terminals connected to different Microsoft services. I quickly realized that I needed to know if I was already connected or not to each Microsoft…
Group Policy Troubleshooting – Internet Explorer
Any IT professional will tell you, technology changes almost daily. Some things seem like they will never change then bam, it changes. For example the dependency on IE. In the 90s and most of the 20s it was…
Find Duplicates in an Array
Need to find duplicates in an array? It’s as simple as using a group object. So we take an array, and group the array by property or group of properties. Then we search those groups for any group…
Group Policy Trouble Shooting – Conference Call
I have been working with group policy recently and have been enjoying it. I wanted to share this knowledge with the rest of the world. I’m going to do that through a few scenarios. This first part is…
How to speed up your Computer
The goal of this blog is to show you a way to speed up a computer using basic software commands/programs. I use these daily and I have seen them work. Sometimes they don’t sometimes they do. Disk Cleanup…
Playing with Logs – Regex
Working with strings in logs can be a challenge, here is how to pull the IP address and Mac address along with some other useful tips.