KB5037422 install error 0x8024200B
KB5037422 is the out-of-band cumulative update to fix an LSASS memory leak on Windows Server 2022 Active Directory Domain Controllers that was inadvertently introduced in the March 2024 monthly...
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Microsoft Store integration with AppLocker
This post is an update on my previous article Managing the Microsoft Store and Apps with AppLocker. Go and read that one first :-) About mid-May 2023 Store version 22303.1401.5.0 was released, and it...
View ArticleDirectAccess IPSec Server certificate expired and not auto renewed
This was a fun one. Aren’t they all… Problem Users were complaining about DirectAccess problems this morning, and on testing myself, DA itself was connected, but I couldn’t access most things through...
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Windows Enterprise Subscription Not Active – 2022-12-13
This post is about a current issue that’s causing Windows 11 (and possibly 10) to remove it’s Enterprise licence and revert to Pro (aka Professional) edition. This is a big problem if you rely on the...
View Article365/Azure AD MFA exclusions – and why you need them
So you’ve set up your new Microsoft 365 tenancy, or are tightening up the security on your existing one, and decide that you want to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication on all your users. Great idea....
View ArticleManaging the Microsoft Store and Apps with AppLocker
From a business IT point of view, at the moment we’re a bit stuck when it comes to the Microsoft Store. You hate it because it allows users to install all kinds of rubbish and unwanted apps onto their...
View ArticleWindows 11 22H2: No Start Menu or Taskbar buttons after 2022-11 monthly update
This was a fun start to the morning. My laptop running Windows 11 22H2 finished doing its reboots after the November 2022 updates (two reboots required this month) and I signed in as normal only to be...
View ArticleUse VLC to convert M4A to MP3 one-liner
I recently needed to convert a load of M4A audio files to the more widespread MP3 format. It turns out you can do this with VLC media player. So then it was just a matter of getting the right command...
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“Anyone with the link” Greyed Out – OneDrive for Business Sharing
This is one of those terrible user experience design issues that you see all over the place these days. Yes, Microsoft stuff is full of them, especially the cloud services, but then so is pretty much...
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Huawei Watch GT2 First Impressions
The Huawei Watch GT2 is a smartwatch that seems to have a lot going for it. I took delivery of mine earlier today, the 46mm model, so here’s my first impressions. This was a reduced-price full retail...
View ArticleBatch Convert VMware VMDK to Hyper-V
I’m doing some conversion of legacy VMs and have been using the StarWind Converter to convert the disks. This utility has been around for years and I’ve used it on and off for a long time whenever...
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Microsoft Office Security – Disable Macros
Executable code embedded within Office documents continues to be a popular way to deliver malware. Office, by default, opens files downloaded from the internet in a safe way, that prompts the user to...
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Easy Group Policy Update from Start Menu
Save yourself and your users time and frustration by implementing this Start Menu shortcut to help them run a Group Policy update quickly and easily. This is handy if you deploy network drives,...
View ArticleWhat is Cyber Essentials?
Cyber Essentials Cyber Essentials (CE) is a UK government scheme that organisations can (and in some cases, must) use to certify a basic level of both IT security awareness and cyber-health. It’s...
View ArticleMeltdown and Spectre – My update experiences on Windows
I’m intending to keep adding to this post as I find out new things and update more devices. This is primarily to aid me in tracking things I’ve done, what’s changed, and what’s still to do. Hopefully...
View ArticleAutomatically manage Office 365 Licences with Powershell
Managing Office 365 manually via the portal is fine, until you get fed up with it or need to make bulk changes. Automating the licence allocation process turned out to be fairly easy, once I’d got to...
View ArticleChange Office 365 Products for a Group of Users with PowerShell
I wanted to switch all my users over to Office 365 Business Premium. It’s a bundle deal for companies of up to 300 people. Previously I’d been separately licencing each of Office 365 ProPlus, Skype for...
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Yahoo, Oath Privacy Settings
Yahoo is now part of Oath, which includes a load (50+) of other brands, some fairly large. You might well not want your data shared amongst them. If so, here’s some useful links to help you trawl...
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Search through Pwned Passwords with PowerShell
Troy Hunt recently released over 300 million SHA1 hashes of passwords that his Have I Been Pwned website has been collecting. The site allows you to search the database to see if your passwords are...
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Fixing ADFS AADSTS50008: Unable to verify token signature. The signing key...
Today my Office 365 ADFS sign in process was broken. Skype for Business (running from Office 365) wouldn’t sign in, and when I tried to sign in to portal.office.com I ended up at a page saying: Sign In...
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