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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...
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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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...
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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...
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...
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 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 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....
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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 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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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 ArticleKB5037422 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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