Keeping our devices up-to-date is important. We know all about Windows and applications, but often times miss out on keeping the other layers such as firmware and BIOS up-to-date as those are typically just updated during OSD or during troubleshooting. There are a few community-made solutions out there which are working really well and in Read More
How to Configure Secure LDAP for an Azure Active Directory Domain Services Managed Domain
In this article Prerequisites Sign in to the Azure portal Create a certificate for secure LDAP Understand and export required certificates Show 8 more To communicate with your Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) managed domain, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used. By default, the LDAP traffic isn’t encrypted, which is Read More
How to Create Desktop Shortcuts from Command Line
Most people will simply create a shortcut by using the shortcut wizard in Windows. But you can also create a shortcut from the command line. You may be asking yourself, Why would I want to create a shortcut from the command line??!! Well, in some cases you may want to automate the creation of a shortcut through Read More
Understand 3 different Sources of Power BI Desktop
there are 3 different installs of Power BI Desktop and you can have them installed side-by-side (and I have had all 3 installed on my machine for the last 4 years) The version from the Microsoft Store(this is the only one that auto-updates and it’s the MS store that does the updating, not PBI Desktop) Read More
How to Create an Azure Active Directory Domain Services Managed Domain
Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) provides managed domain services such as domain join, group policy, LDAP, Kerberos/NTLM authentication that is fully compatible with Windows Server Active Directory. You consume these domain services without deploying, managing, and patching domain controllers yourself. Azure AD DS integrates with your existing Azure AD tenant. This integration Read More
How to Manually Sync Intune Policies with Windows Devices
Let’s see how to manually sync Intune policies using multiple methods on Windows devices. Syncing forces your device to connect with Intune to get the latest updates, requirements, and communications from your organization. In this post, I will show you how to initiate quick manual sync of latest Intune policies from the Company Portal app on Windows Read More