You can get to the reset option by restarting your Surface from the sign-in screen. Here’s how: On your keyboard, press the Windows logo key + L. If you need to, dismiss the lock screen. Hold the Shift key down while you select Power > Restart in the lower-right corner of the screen. After your Surface restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Reset Read More
How to Deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity
Are you planning on deploying Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI), but you are not sure how to? No worries, this blog will walk you through the deployment steps. What is Microsoft Defender for Identity MDI Leverages your on-premises Active Directory signals to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats, compromised identities, and malicious insider actions directed Read More
How to Disable FIPS-Complaint Encryption on Windows
The Professional, Enterprise and Education versions of Microsoft Windows have a hidden setting that enables government-certified “FIPS-compliant” encryption. FIPS stands for “Federal Information Processing Standards.” It is a set of government standards that define how certain things are used in the government—for example, encryption algorithms. This setting in not available on the Home version of Read More
Basics of Patch Management Policies
The process of patching itself is an easy one. You probably just need to click some buttons or run a couple of commands and the software takes care of everything else. This, however, is simple only when you have a couple of software to patch on a personal system. But at an enterprise scale, it’s Read More
How to Fix “Incomplete Certificate Chains” on Palo Alto Firewalls
Find websites that cause incomplete certificate chain errors. Filter the Decryption log to identify Decryption sessions that failed because of an incomplete certificate chain.In the filter field, type the query (err_index eq Certificate) and (error contains ‘http’). This query filters the logs for Certificate errors that contain the string “http”, which finds all of the error Read More
How to Assign the Windows Company Portal Via Intune To manage devices and install apps, your users can optionally use the Company Portal app. You can assign the Windows Company Portal app directly from Intune using Microsoft Store app (new) apps. Prerequisites You can choose to install the Company Portal app using the steps below. The Company Portal app Read More