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colinardo on Jul 10, 2021MikroTikOther systems

RouterOS 7.1beta6 - GRE Tunnel does not work with non Mikrotik devices (fix)

Small advice for all users trying to create a simple GRE Tunnel to a non Mikotik device under the current beta version. If the tunnel ...

Frank on Jul 09, 2021Windows 11Microsoft

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65 available

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.65 and fixed some bugs. You can find all the details on the official Windows ...

ghost-in-the-shell on Jul 06, 2021NetworksProtocols

Which protocol to connect to a drive on another remote pc via file explorer

Which protocol uses windows to connect to a drive of another remote pc via file explorer. for example: if you connect by typing Does windows ...

aqui on Jul 05, 2021NetworksLAN, WAN, WirelessNetworking Basics

Cisco WLAN access point 1142N, 2702, 3702 and 3800 for home use

Preamble Renewals of commercial WiFi enterprise networks cause of new standards and hence new required hardware (additional 6 GHz band etc.) result in the ...

aqui on Jul 02, 2021NetworksVPNRouters, RoutingMikroTik

Cisco, Mikrotik, pfSense site-to-site VPN with dynamic routing

Preamble The following tutorial is an addon to existing VPN tutorials on administrator.de. It describes a mixed hardware VPN site-to-site setup between Cisco and Mikrotik ...

colinardo on Jul 02, 2021Windows 11Microsoft

Windows 11 - Microsoft is changing its famous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) to black

Nothing more important than color the newest innovation from Redmond since tomato sauce is red! The Black Screen of Death is here Cheers. ...

Dani on Jun 28, 2021Microsoft

Investigating and Mitigating Malicious Drivers

The security landscape continues to rapidly evolve as threat actors find new and innovative methods to gain access to environments across a wide range of ...

Frank on Jun 24, 2021Windows 11Microsoft

Windows 11: Feature deprecations and removals

When upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 10 or when installing an update to Windows 11, some features may be deprecated or removed. Please see ...

Frank on Jun 24, 2021Windows 11Microsoft

Windows 11 requirements

Here are the current Windows 11 requirements for services and hardware. According to Microsoft, the upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 will be free ...

Frank on Jun 24, 2021Windows 11Microsoft

Windows 11: Set the Start menu back to the left

In the latest Windows 11 version, the new Start menu is displayed in the centre: You can easily set it back to the left side ...

Frank on Jun 24, 2021Windows 11Microsoft

Microsoft announces Windows 11 with new Start menu

On June 24, 2021 Microsoft has presented the new Windows 11. Via an online event, Microsoft showed what the future of Windows 11 will bring. ...

Frank on Jun 22, 2021MicrosoftWindows 10

Windows 10 Core Isolation: Remove incompatible drivers

Hello, Actually, I just wanted to follow the Windows Security recommendations and under Settings -> Windows Security -> Core Isolation, turn on Memory Integrity. According ...

Frank on Jun 22, 2021LinuxRedHat, Fedora, CentOS

Install Powerline for Fedora

Powerline is a very practical optical extension for vim and the Linux shell (bash, zsh, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile). You can find an overview ...

Dani on Jun 21, 2021Microsoft

You Might Want to Audit Your LAPS Permissions - Part2

Since publishing part one, I've had questions, concerns, and feedback from readers, customers, friends, and other Microsoft engineers. In today's blog, I'd like to address some of ...

Dani on Jun 21, 2021Microsoft

You Might Want to Audit Your LAPS Permissions - Part1

In today's blog, I'd like to quickly talk about the Local Administrator Password Solution (aka LAPS). It's nothing new and has been around for some ...

Dani on Jun 17, 2021MicrosoftWindows 10

Preview updating PowerShell 7.2 with Microsoft Update

Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re taking the first steps to making PowerShell 7 easier than ever to update on Windows 10 and Server. ...

Dani on Jun 17, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

Basic Authentication and Exchange Online - June 2021 Update

It’s been a few months since our last update on Basic Authentication in Exchange Online, but we’ve been busy getting ready for the next phase ...

Dani on Jun 12, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

News About the June 2021 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server

We typically release our quarterly Cumulative Updates (CUs) for Exchange Server on the third Tuesday of a month. In June 2021, that would be June ...

Dani on May 31, 2021Microsoft

Microsoft 365 Maps and Licensing

Moin, in short: A nice, pictorial overview of the possible plans and their products: Greetings, Dani ...

Dani on May 31, 2021Microsoft

Staying on top of Office 365 Updates

Moin! One of the main challenges when using Office 365 products and services is to stay aware of announcements, updates and upcoming features. This applies ...

Dani on May 29, 2021Microsoft

Security baseline for Microsoft Edge version 91

We are pleased to announce the enterprise-ready release of the security baseline for Microsoft Edge, version 91! We have reviewed the new settings in Microsoft ...

Dani on May 27, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

Enabling Modern Auth for Outlook

Since we announced in 2019 that we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols we have been encouraging our customers to switch to Modern ...

Dani on May 27, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

Exchange Health Checker has a new home

Today, we are happy to announce that the Exchange Health Checker PowerShell script has a new home: it is now part of the Microsoft CSS-Exchange ...

Dani on May 27, 2021MicrosoftOutlook Mail

Outlook for Windows Shared Calendar Public Notifications

It is with great excitement that we are announcing that we have graduated the shared calendar improvements in Outlook for Windows out of preview! This ...

Dani on May 27, 2021Microsoft

Difficulty Generating a Memory Dump

My name is Teeda, and I am a Support Escalation Engineer on the Windows Performance Team at Microsoft. This blog post provides several suggestions and ...

Dani on May 27, 2021Microsoft

FAQs from the field on KRBTGT reset

Introduction Recently I had couple of customers asking many questions on KRBTGT account password reset and Microsoft’s recommendations for this, in this article I will ...

Dani on May 13, 2021Security

DST Root CA X3 Expiration (September 2021)

On September 30 2021, there will be a small change in how older browsers and devices trust Let’s Encrypt certificates. If you run a typical ...

C.R.S. on May 01, 2021Detection, blockingSecurity

Defenseless: Spectre Mitigations Leveraged

A team of University of Virginia School of Engineering computer science researchers has uncovered a line of attack that breaks all Spectre defenses, meaning that ...

Dani on Apr 26, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

Why Exchange Server updates matter

It is very important to keep updating your Exchange Servers to a supported Cumulative Update (CU). Simply put, your on-premises environments should always be ready ...

Frank on Apr 14, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

April 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server Security Updates

Microsoft has released security updates for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2019 These updates are available for the following ...

Dani on Apr 02, 2021MicrosoftOutlook Mail

Native external sender callouts on email in Outlook

We know that some of our customers leverage Exchange transport rules to prepend subject line or insert the message body to show the email is ...

Dani on Mar 28, 2021VirtualizationHyper-V

Why Hyper-V Live Migrations Fail with 0x8009030E

Hi everyone, my name is Tobias Kathein and I’m a Senior Engineer in Microsoft’s Customer Success Unit. Together with my colleagues Victor Zeilinger, Serge Gourraud ...

ghost-in-the-shell on Mar 18, 2021InternetInformation Services

Internet of Things (IoT) Market to Exhibit 24.9 CAGR till 2027

The global Internet of Things (IoT) market is set to gain impetus from the rising adoption of digital twin by a wide range of industries. ...

Dani on Mar 17, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

March 2021 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Today we are announcing the availability of quarterly servicing cumulative updates (CUs) for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. These CUs include fixes for ...

Jicardo77 on Mar 13, 2021Networks

Which VPN is more reliable?

Hello guys, Good day to all! I'm a newbie here. I'm going to use VPN service for the first time. I would like to know ...

natalie.solero on Mar 12, 2021DevelopmentBatch, Shell

Powershell adding action to combobox selection

at the moment, i want to build a powershell gui. the form is running fine, so there are no problems with it. now i want ...

natalie.solero on Mar 04, 2021DevelopmentBatch, Shell

Powershell Folder Picker Dialog

Hello Guys :-) i'm just thinking about to implement a folder picking dialog box in my existing script. In my existing script i want to ...

Dani on Mar 02, 2021MicrosoftWindows Server

Windows Admin Center version 2103 is now generally available

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Windows Admin Center version 2103! A big THANK YOU to the Windows Admin Center community, ...

Dani on Feb 26, 2021InternetE-Mail

Spamhaus DNSBL return codes - Technical update

Spamhaus' primary data sets are published in DNS zones known as DNSBLs. Users of that data ask the zone a question (a "query") and the ...

natalie.solero on Feb 26, 2021DevelopmentBatch, Shell

Powershell Uninstall-Package

Hello guys, sorry for my bad english :-) i'm trying to create a powershell script to uninstall software on a remote machine. i enter the ...

Dani on Feb 22, 2021Microsoft

Upcoming changes to mailbox receiving limits: Hot Recipients Throttling

To ensure optimal mail flow performance for all customers and protect the health of Exchange services, Microsoft is updating the way in which we enforce ...

Dani on Feb 08, 2021Microsoft

Managing deployment of RBCD-Protected User (CVE-2020-16996)

Summary If you use Protected Users and Resource-Based Constrained Delegation (RBCD), a security vulnerability may exist on Active Directory domain controllers. To learn more about ...

Dani on Feb 05, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

Basic Authentication and Exchange Online - February 2021

We previously announced we would begin to disable Basic Auth for five Exchange Online protocols in the second half of 2021. Due to the pandemic ...

Dani on Jan 16, 2021Microsoft

Windows Defender SmartScreen - File and Flash Player blockage problem

SmartScreen has become a part of Windows 10 OS, it was named as Windows Defender SmartScreen. It is useful to protect not just Edge, Internet ...

Dani on Jan 16, 2021MicrosoftExchange Server

Understanding email scenarios if TLS versions cannot be agreed on with Exchange Online

By now you are hopefully aware of the TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation efforts that are underway across the industry and Microsoft 365 in particular. Head out ...

Dani on Jan 04, 2021Microsoft

Enhanced Security Admin Environment Retirement

The Enhanced Security Admin Environment (ESAE) architecture (often referred to as red forest, admin forest, or hardened forest) is a legacy on-premises approach to providing ...

Dani on Dec 23, 2020MicrosoftWindows User Management

The Mysterious Case of the Self-Moving FSMO Roles

Hello all! This is Chris Cartwright from Directory Services. I had a coworker, Eric Jansen, reach out to me from the field and ask about ...

Dani on Nov 24, 2020VirtualizationHyper-V

MSIX - Using the Bulk Conversion Scripts

Hello everyone, this is Ingmar Oosterhoff, a Modern Workplace Customer Engineer at Microsoft. In an earlier series of posts we set up our environment to ...

Dani on Nov 23, 2020Security ToolsSecurity

The Bastion powered by OVH

Bastions are a cluster of machines used as the unique entry point by operational teams (such as sysadmins, developers, database admins, ) to securely connect ...

Dani on Nov 18, 2020MicrosoftOutlook Mail

Deprecation Notice for Outlook REST API v2.0

Microsoft Graph is the modern API for the Microsoft 365 platform. We make continuous, significant investments in its security, performance, and features to ensure it ...