Microsoft Entra ID provides a simple cloud-based sign-in experience to all your resources and apps with strong authentication and real-time, risk-based adaptive access policies to grant access to resources reducing operational costs of managing and maintaining an AD FS environment and increasing IT efficiency. For more info on why you should upgrade from AD FS to Microsoft Read More
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How to Enable or Disable RDP NLA from PowerShell Windows Server 2016/2019/2022
By default, you might find RDP firewall rules disabled, which prevent RDP connections to the server. To enable preset firewall rules of RemoteDesktop, use the following PowerShell command: Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup ‘Remote Desktop’ or from CMD, append powershell.exe in the beginning: powershell.exe Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup ‘Remote Desktop’ To disable RDP Network Level Authentication (NLA), use the following Read More
How to Change the TimeZone by Using PowerShell
Azure VM sets it’s time zone as UTC by default. Sometimes, the settings might also grey out, so you cannot modify it from the GUI. So, it follows the time always until you set a different time zone. I am doing the settings in the following way:. I hope this will help you too.The steps Read More
How to Change the ADSync Service Account Password
If you change the ADSync service account password, the Synchronization Service doesn’t start correctly until you abandon the encryption key and reinitialized the ADSync service account password. Abandoning the ADSync service account encryption key The following procedures only apply to Microsoft Entra Connect build 1.1.443.0 or older. This can’t be used for newer versions of Read More
How To Find Domain Controllers That Hold Master Roles
Use DCDIAG On a Windows Domain Controller, run the following command: Use the NTDSUTIL Tool NTDSUTIL is a tool included with Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. This tool is can be used to verify change certain aspects of the Active Directory. The following is the steps needed to Read More
How to Fix Windows Batch (.BAT) Only Execute the First Line
Solution 1 Bat file contents (if you want to stop batch when one of cmds errors) Bat file contents (if you want to continue batch when one of cmds errors)