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Watch out, there are vulnerabilities about 🧐
You know what they say: the only thing that grows faster than an organisation, is the number of vulnerabilities. I see plenty of organisations claim they know their threat vectors, and sure, you may have software and hardware designed to... -
I need a tenant
Lets get down to business! Alright! Enough with the talking. Let’s get into it. This blog post we will cover the starting blocks of leaping into a world of exploration and labbing. We will actually create a tenant that we... -
Azure Regions
Where in the world! Before getting stuck into this post, if you’re reading this after April 22, it’s probably now out of date. Azure’s footprint is constantly expanding and being innovated upon. -
Susbcriptions, Resource Groups and Resources.
The layers of Azure -
Everything as a Service
Subscription’s are king -
Learning Azure
Ways of Learning I had plans for this post to be technical; then had a little revelation. What if others are following me on this journey, but don’t learn enough from my writings? Perhaps I’m rambling, or not communicating clearly.... -
100 Days of Azure
Introduction It’s been trending a little bit lately, #100DaysOf<InsertCauseHere>. I have been wondering why this a hundred days of XYZ has been trending? Is it people trying to flex their intellect and deep knowledge on a subject? Perhaps its others... -
Veeam Console Not Opening
Everyone loves loathes a software update. We all know they’re needed to fight the everlasting war agains vulnerabilities and bugs. We all love the new features becoming available, after they were promised years ago. These positive gains, are still often... -
Remote Powershell scripting using VS Code on a Mac
Being a Microsoft centric engineer with a Mac OS laptop has raised plenty of eyebrows during meetings. I’m sure there have been times people have internally questioned my credentials. Who can blame them? Walking into a meeting to talk about... -
Intel CPU Vulnerability
A new vulnerability has just landed for Intel CPU’s that are still using Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). CVE-2018-5407, or commonly known as PortSmash. -
Hyper-V CPU Scheduler Types
Recent security vulnerabilities within CPU’s has resulted in a need to change some fundamental CPU scheduling within Hyper-V, so to keep VM’s secure. Microsoft has an article outlining the different schedulers, that now available. This blog article is to help... -
S2D Cluster Updates - October 2018
In my previous blog article, I spoke about how recent updates had introduced some serious bugs and reliability issues for S2D. -
Windows 10 1809 Removed from WSUS and Windows Update
That’s right, Microsoft have just announced the removal of the 1809 October release of Windows 10. -
S2D Cluster Updates - May 2018
There is nothing more frustrating that doing all possible due diligence, raising the relevant Change Requests, completing testing, just to have a routine Windows Update fail. -
S2D Manual Cache Rebind
Sometimes things don’t go quite to plan. Whilst deploying a cluster with P3700 Intel drives, we had a situation where we needed to disable the cache as the drives were failing. This is a well documented issue that arose with... -
S2D Storage Jobs Failing
From time to time, a Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) storage job, whether this is a Virtual Disk Repair, Physical Disk Removal or Storage Pool Rebalance/Optimization, will suspend or fail for some reason. When this happens, we need to understand why... -
Powering Up on Github Pages
I’ve been recently been working on S2D and have been working on edge cases that have no online documentation. Wanting to share this knowledge I knew I had to have another crack at blogging. Thinking on how to make it... -
S4B Room System on Surface Pro 3
Recently MS have released the Skype for Business Room system app on the windows store. Seeing that it has been made to work on a surface pro in a dock, I dusted off an old SP3 found a dock and though, lets... -
Engaged tone when calling extension
Recently, I encountered a weird issue where an extension could call outbound, but didn’t receive any incoming calls. Callers would hear the busy tone, and if exchange um hadn’t been configured, disconnected. -
Polycom VVX Phone Manager Script
James Cussen has wrote an excellent script for managing Polycom VVX phones. -
VVX PIN Authentication Error
I was having issues with a desk phone (Specifically a Polycom VVX310 running 5.4.0.10182) signing in to Lync 2013 with Ext/Pin. When attempting auth the phone would simply return “Lync Sign in Failed”. Pin Auth had been previously working and...