Active Directory

Azure Backup MARS Agent System State Support is GA

November 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

Microsoft announced last week that they made support for backing up system state using the MARS agent generally available. System State backup was one of those “I must have this” features that I’ve been hearing about for 3+ years. Today it’s there – update your version of the MARS agent [...]

Azure AD Domain Services

September 27, 2017 // 1 Comment

Options when Moving to The Cloud Switch to using SaaS versions of the s/w Rewrite the app Lift and shift: the focus today. How Organizations Handle AD Requirements Today They set up site-site VPN and deploy additional domain controllers in the cloud. They deploy another domain/forest in the [...]

Webinar Recording: Defending Today’s Threats With Tomorrow’s Security By Microsoft

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

MicroWarehouse has posted the recording of our last webinar, which explained why the security solutions of the 1990s that some companies are still relying on, are being easily defeated by attackers today. The post explains what is happening now, based on 2015 survey information from multiple [...]

Webinar: Introduction to EMS

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

A recording of this webinar can be viewed here, along with the slides and follow up reading/learning. I am presenting a webinar on Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) on Friday at 2pm UK/Irish time, 3PM Central European, and 9am EST. My job has many threads. Sometimes I am down-deep in [...]

How To Manage Azure AD in CSP

May 26, 2016 // 5 Comments

In this post I’ll describe two ways that you can use to manage Azure AD in a CSP subscription using a GUI. CSP, CSP, CSP – that’s all you can hear these days in the Microsoft channel. In short, CSP is a new channel by which customers can buy Azure or partners can resell Azure, with a [...]

Windows 10 Being Pushed Out To Domain-Joined PCs

January 14, 2016 // 4 Comments

Brad Sams (my boss at Petri.com) published a story last night about how Microsoft has started to push out Windows 10 upgrades to domain-joined PCs. Note that the PC doesn’t upgrade via Windows Update; the user will be prompted if they want to update, and then a deliberately confusing screen [...]

Microsoft News – 19 October 2015

October 19, 2015 // 2 Comments

It turns out that Microsoft has been doing some things that are not Surface-related. Here’s a summary of what’s been happening in the last while … Hyper-V Microsoft Loves Linux Deep Dive #2 – Linux and FreeBSD Integration Services Core Features: Talking about the services that are [...]

Microsoft News – 28 September 2015

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Wow, the year is flying by fast. There’s a bunch of stuff to read here. Microsoft has stepped up the amount of information being released on WS2016 Hyper-V (and related) features. EMS is growing in terms of features and functionality. And Azure IaaS continues to release lots of new features. [...]

Microsoft News – 7 September 2015

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Here’s the recent news from the last few weeks in the Microsoft IT Pro world: Hyper-V Configuring Default Checkpoint type in Windows 10: How to automatically get the legacy style checkpoint behaviour – might be useful in test/dev/demo labs. Hyper-V Dynamic Memory Versus Virtual NUMA: The [...]

Prevent Windows From Downloading Broken Drivers From Windows Update

August 20, 2015 // 3 Comments

Edit: the solution here does not work. The Windows Update Blocker offers a solution that works until Microsoft releases a new broken version of the broken driver. Frustrated much? The release of Windows 10 has reminded many of us that Windows Update is usually the worst place to get a driver for [...]

1 2 3 … 7 »

Aidan Finn, IT Pro

A blog covering Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Server, desktop, systems management, deployment, and so on ...