Security related items and thoughts
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 u… Read the rest “How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange–Updated 2022”
Welcome to 2022 and a new release of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) version 2.90!
The Sysinternals blog lists the following changes to RDCMa… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90”
As part of your regular security and operations review, it is important to check and verify the configuration of Azure AD Connect. Ensuring the OS an… Read the rest “Review Azure AD Connect Synchronisation Scope”
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 runn… Read the rest “IIS SMTP Virtual Server Component No Longer Supported”
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 the… Read the rest “Sign-In Error 5000811 — Unable to verify token signature. The signing key Identifier Does Not Match Any Valid Registered Keys”
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 rele… Read the rest “Why Is The Exchange Security Update Not Installed?”
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 t… Read the rest “Does Manually Running Azure AD Connect Change Schedule?”
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 al… Read the rest “AD FS Web Application Proxy Re-Establish Proxy Trust”
This is a topic that still comes up when doing email investigations. After there has been an issue, we want to perform analysis to determine what may… Read the rest “Exchange Online Transport Rule Audit”
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 r… Read the rest “Is Exchange Fully Updated? If Not, Go Update Now”