Recently Microsoft has taken Azure Hybrid Domain Join out of preview, so it is now a fully supported technology. What is Azure Hybrid Domain Join? Traditionally IT Administrators could either...
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With Exchange backup set up according to best practices, most vendors provide ‘mailbox level’ recovery tools, or even ‘message level’ recovery tools, which enable you to seamlessly and very quickly...
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Azure Advanced Threat Protection is a cloud-based tool (E5 Needed) designed to help detect breaches of your physical, virtual, or Azure-hosted Domain Controllers. This tool is especially useful if you…
Troubleshooting SIP trunks and voice traffic requires being able to view traffic at many different points in the total path. Two of the main points to view and validate traffic...
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Virtual Router Redundancy Protocols can use a function called tracking to follow (track) another portion of the configuration. Typically when I see this done it’s with the track being done...
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I’ve talked with countless organizations about their in-house IT department, and I’m amazed how the vast majority either don’t know what IT costs them or how to accurately calculate it....
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Summary: If you use Windows domain authentication in Firepower Management Console, you could be affected by this vulnerability. Cisco announced on January 22nd that a vulnerability in the web-based management…
In today’s world, we’re seeing more and more prevalence of vendors insisting that users implement a multi-factor authentication solution for their applications and systems. A lot of business leaders, especially...
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Microsoft’s new Chromium-based browser is the best of both worlds, matching the internet compatibility of Chrome with the intranet and business app compatibility of Internet Explorer. Since its inception, it’s…
I recently gave a presentation on how the System Administration role is evolving in a typical mid-sized organization. This was really focused on private firms that have only a few…
