Documenting GPPref drive and printer mappings
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by Hayes Jupe
4d ago
GPPrefs are great – but in true MS fashion – they are very much a bolt-on from when they were acquired many years ago – and the ability to script reading values (let alone creation) is somewhere limited due to this. This dude made a fantastic script to document GPPref drive mappings here Getting all ..read more
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Exchange – Can’t remove the domain ‘xy.com’ because it’s referenced in an email address policy by the proxy address template ‘smtp:@xy.com’.
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by Hayes Jupe
1w ago
The current company im working for is a large (for Aus) media company and as such, because basically everyone that works here is into marketing and sales, we just have a ridiculous number of domains. As part of the cleanup process here – i bought up the huge number of domains we had and that ..read more
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Unlicensed OneDrive charges as of Jan 2025 and analysis
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by Hayes Jupe
1M ago
If you work in a MS-based environment, it is likely you have seen that as of January 27th 2025, you will start getting charged for retained OneDrive data. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/unlicensed-onedrive-accounts?WT.mc_id=365AdminCSH_spo  The storage cost for the will be $US 0.05/GB/Month – which can add up very quickly. https://mc.merill.net/message/MC836942 In the environment i’ve recently started working in, there ..read more
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WSUS is now deprecated
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by Hayes Jupe
1M ago
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-server-update-services-wsus-deprecation/ba-p/4250436 Not really surprising – there hasn’t been any meaningful updates to WSUS for a very long time… there are improvements that could be made – but no appetite to make them…. i imagine because the cloud solutions have a direct cost (and are therefore revenue producing) whereas WSUS does not. The argument could be ..read more
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Removing EXO litigation holds and making your mailbox functional again
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by Hayes Jupe
2M ago
Recently i had a situation where a user with a shared mailbox which had a ludicrous number of items. He recently started in the role and wanted to “start fresh” – but items could not be deleted. A quick investigation found that litigation hold had been enabled for the mailbox (in addition to our org ..read more
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Crowdstrike BSOD and GPO no longer updating
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by Hayes Jupe
2M ago
After the Crowdstrike BSOD’s on 19/07/2024 – we have seen a significant uptick on clients not refreshing group policy. The machines in question can be identified via: The last update file date on C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\registry.pol being on or around 19/07/2024 (some were on the 20th or 21st for us) Event ID 1096 in the system event ..read more
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RDS Session hosts don’t accept new connections after reboot – despite not being in drain mode
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by Hayes Jupe
3M ago
Recently – i have had the following scenario: RDS Farm with 2 x DNS-RR brokers and approx 30 session hosts, all server 2022. Some session hosts, seemingly randomly, after a reboot will all look ok, but won’t accept any connections. cycling the session host to not accept new connections/accept new connections would bring the server ..read more
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Pet insurance australia – just shit…
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by Hayes Jupe
3M ago
Dogs…. just fluffy balls of awesomeness right ? Just like we have health insurance, i got pet insurance for our first Golden Retriever – who turned 11 a last month, through Pet Insurance Australia… as they seemed to be ok-ish based on the online reviews… acknowledging that its incredibly difficult to discern a real review ..read more
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Moving from Synology to QNAP
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by Hayes Jupe
3M ago
My Synology 2413+ 12 bay NAS recently died after 12 years of service. This NAS was primarily used as: an iSCSI backup target for Veeam Video recording for home security cameras Media storage Overall, i was pretty happy with the unit itself – but as per most companies these days, support was non-existent…. so when ..read more
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Win RM fails on DC with event ID 142
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by Hayes Jupe
3M ago
For a while i have had a niggling issue where on a DC that is used by a number of in-house coded applications, WinRM would fail intermittently with the following: Log : Microsoft-Windows-WinRM/Operational EventID : 142 Event Message: WSMan operation Enumeration failed, error code 2150859046 There isn’t much to go on for this error when ..read more
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