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In an attempt to troubleshoot a complex network issue with limited visibility, Domotz Professional was one solution to enable monitoring of the network remotely. This solution is available on a variety of platforms including AWS, Docker, Netgear ReadyNAS, QNAP...

Along my learning journey's I've used a variety of resources from free to expensive courses offered by learning institutions. Here are my thoughts on some of the platforms I have used.

Microsoft used to offer a developer account which allowed multiple licenses for testing and development. This is no longer offered so for this lab, I have created a new trial subscription which will be used for testing projects being worked on.  For the activi...

Like with most things, there are multiple ways this can be done. I am most familiar with setting this up from the Microsoft Admin Center but it can also be done from within the Entra ID Blade. To do it from the Admin Center: Navigate to https://admin.micro...

Any users created prior to adding the custom domain and setting it as the default will have a domain.onmicrosoft.com user principal name (UPN). While this works for signing in and receiving mail does not look great. The custom domain adds a more professional l...

Newly created tenants have a set of default security settings in place to help protect smaller organizations who may not be experienced in configuring necessary protections for Microsoft 365. However, with these defaults configured a number of the security set...

As this tenant is going to be used to test Autopilot scenarios there are a few pre-requisites needed as documented in Windows Autopilot requirements | Microsoft Learn. In particular in a fairly open network without several controls, the configuration section i...

Qualys Community Edition allows up to 16 IP Addresses to be scanned to demonstrate the product's capability. Once an account is set up, you can specify the IP addresses  you would like to scan by using a comma separated list. A local scanner is needed. To crea...

I have been challenged a few times with leveraging the ability to remotely wipe devices from Intune for various reasons. While a method to preserve data would be favorable, sometimes an asset is past recovery and clearing data from it is the first priority. Un...