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Growing up, I watched my parents do this thing that feels kind of rare now. They didn’t just go to work. They built a work life. Like the kind that bleeds into the community, where people know your name, and your effort leaves marks in places you’ll never fully see.
They built communities where they worked and even changed the tow...
So, here I am looking down at a project to create a new domain and migrate users. Normally this isn’t a bad process. You clone the user on the other domain and have them sign in. Use a tool like Profwiz or ADMT (assuming it works). Then I realize, they are AD synced to Entra/Identity. Oh, this is going to be interesting. So, I pulled out my Diet Dr P...
The other day, I was showing a friend how to set up Intune deployments. Then it hit me: I have unique scripts for script detections and things like that here on therandomadmin.com. However, I haven’t really gone through the detection rules for built-in items. I was l...
The VPN tunnel was solid. We had split-tunnel traffic, per-user group policies, and MFA layered on Azure AD sign-ins. Nothing fancy, just a Meraki firewall and a bunch of cloud-native users on laptops.
Then someone asked for Wi-Fi to authenticate via RADIUS.
Not Wi-Fi on laptops, Wi-Fi for the office printers and a couple of older...
The other day I was upgrading exchange, and it kept complaining that the system needed a reboot even after a reboot. I rebooted over and over and over and over a…. you get the idea. After googling a while, I found the solution was inside a registry key. A file name was needing to be changed, but the os just wasn’t doing it upon reboot. It’s a common ...