Defender Portal Enable Audit – Is That The Unified Audit Log?
This was a question from a recent customer engagement: Why is the Microsoft Defender portal asking me to turn on the Unified Audit Log when I already have that enabled?…
Security
How To Use Nslookup To Check DMARC Record
One of my customers wanted to verify their Domain Based Message Reporting Conformance (DMARC) record, and followed the post How To Use Nslookup To Check DNS TXT Record but ran …
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Blog Compiled links
Below are a series of links to the main Microsoft Defender for Office 365 blog. Shortcuts added here as this is one of my shared bookmarks.
Note that some links …
MDI Install Error 0x80070643 Windows Server 2019
Install the Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) sensor onto a newly built DC? Easy you say, and that should only take 5 minutes. Well, if that was the case there …
How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange–Updated 2022
Back in the year 2014 the post How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange was released to help create TLS certificates. One of the main use cases was …
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90
Welcome to 2022 and a new release of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) version 2.90!
The Sysinternals blog lists the following changes to RDCMan which are well worth reviewing from …
IIS SMTP Virtual Server Component No Longer Supported
Please consider this a quick PSA (Public Service Announcement) as it is still common that I run into environments with the IIS SMTP service still running and processing mail.
While …
Sign-In Error 5000811 — Unable to verify token signature. The signing key Identifier Does Not Match Any Valid Registered Keys
The error message "Sorry, that didn’t work. Please go back to office.com and try again” is probably one of the most vague that I've seen. It's up there with "please …
Why Is The Exchange Security Update Not Installed?
The issue of "Why is the Exchange Security Update not installed?" has popped up frequently over the last few months due to the number of security releases for on-premises Exchange.…
Does Manually Running Azure AD Connect Change Schedule?
Despite the current versions of Azure AD Connect running the main synchronisation task every 30 minutes, there are still times when we want to force the task. As a result …