Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
How to setup Windows 10 logons to require MFA without third-party software
Many people do not realize that you can setup Windows 10 logons to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) with no third-party software. The only requirements are that your PC must support Bluetooth and Bluetooth capable phone (or other Bluetooth device that can be used as your second factor). The key is some additions that were made…
Read MoreHow to Restore Files from Encrypted Azure Disks
Like many things in a secure world, restoring deleted/corrupted files to an Azure VM with encrypted disks is not as straight forward as restoring unencrypted files. File and folder stores are not available and even though you can download the entire virtual hard drive from backup, it is unusable due to the encryption. The encrypted…
Read More32 Bit or 64 Bit? That is the Question
Until fairly recently the choice between a 32 bit or 64 bit application install was a fairly easy one. While 64 bit had its advantages the idea of running a 64 bit version of a product like Microsoft Office was simply a no go. Your preferred Document Management System typically would not integrate, your add-ins…
Read MoreBlocking Built-in Applications With AppLocker
With the new world of Windows 10 and its never-ending stream of feature updates, Microsoft has introduced a new set of “built-in” applications. Some of these “applications” can be removed as part of an MDT or SCCM task sequence or manually from PowerShell. However, there are some applications which Microsoft does not allow to be…
Read MoreMicrosoft offers enterprise-grade security and control for your business, With small-medium business-friendly pricing
With Windows 10 and Secure Productive Enterprise, Microsoft is making it easier for you to get the benefits of enterprise-grade security and control – without enterprise-grade complexity or cost. This is a great option for SMB’s as there is no longer a need to buy a volume license for business with smaller license counts. Instead,…
Read MoreNew ‘365’ products from Microsoft may change the way you license and manage PC’s
Most businesses are now familiar with Microsoft’s ‘Office365’ suite of products which provide a range of services to their end users – email, instant messaging, Word, Excel, Outlook etc. The adoption rate of Office365 as a platform for replacing aging, on-premise Exchange servers has been extremely high (more than 90% of clients have chosen to…
Read MoreUpdating Windows 7 Workstations
Sometimes when you setup a new Windows 7 workstation and try to do Windows Updates it just appears to “hang” on the checking for updates screen? There can be a number of reasons for this, but there are some things you can try that will usually help resolve the problem. First, Microsoft puts out a…
Read MoreRecovering Data From An Exchange Archive
There are many many articles written about how to recover data from an Exchange recovery database, but fewer articles are around that talk about how to recover data from an Exchange archive recovery database. Normally you can mount a recovery database and run a “New-MailboxRestoreRequest” to get your data. However, if you want to recover…
Read MoreOutlook Slow After Migrating to Exchange 2013
If you’ve just migrated your mailbox to Exchange 2013 and you’re having issues with slowness in Outlook (opening Outlook, reading e-mails, etc.) you may need to adjust something called TcpAckFrequency in the registry. The default TcpAckFrequency parameter in Windows is 200ms, which does not always work well with Exchange 2013. Luckily, there is a very…
Read MoreThe Death of Windows Server 2003 and SQL 2005 – What’s your plan of attack?
Hopefully, by now you have migrated all your servers off Windows Server 2003. Support for Server 2003 ended on July 15th 2015, meaning that if you still have servers in production which are running this OS , you are at heightened risk for security breach and will not be in compliance with any regulatory standards…
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