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 …
Security
AD FS Web Application Proxy Re-Establish Proxy Trust
In the Tailspintoys environment the AD FS Proxy was offline for month. It was unable to contact the AD FS server on the internal network, and this allowed the short …
Is Exchange Fully Updated? If Not, Go Update Now
The Exchange team just posted that the September 2021 updates are going to be slightly delayed. The priority will always be to ship quality updates rather than force it out …
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81
Finally we have good news for all fans of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) tool! It has risen from the ashes, and is now part of Sysinternals.
Over the …
Microsoft Defender for Identity–Replaced Domain Controller
The below environment was migrated from one hosting provider to another. Unfortunately one DC did not survive, and it was removed from the domain. This was done by using dsa.msc…
April 2021 Exchange Security Updates
Today is patch Tuesday for April 2021 and there are critical Exchange server security updates in the release. You can review all of the affected products on the MSRC blog…
Exchange & TCP/IP Port Range
The below is an interesting result after installing Exchange. The act of installing Exchange will change how TCP/IP operates on the server with respect to ephemeral connections.
This may manifest …
Install March 2021 Security Update–Exchange 2013 Net Framework 4.7.2
You will have seen the multiple posts and communications around the Hafnium Exchange security issue. One of the most disconcerting issues has been the number of Exchange installs that …
Collected Links For Hafnium – March 2021 Exchange Security Issue
The below are a series of links, tips and some very brief thoughts on Hafnium. I will purposefully not include the content of the other locations as it is changing …
Exchange 2010 SP3 RU32 Released
Today is an out of band security release for Exchange. Due to the way that Exchange 2010 is serviced, security updates are released as a new update rollup (RU).…