Guest post by Microsoft Customer Engineer, Daniele De Angelis. It’s a pleasure to be here again on the ITOpsTalk.com . Recently I had the opportunity to try the Microsoft Universal Print, the new cloud printing service on Azure. Today I want to share with you a scenario where you can implement and manage this new …
Step-by-Step: Configure and manage Microsoft Universal Print Continue Reading
This time I was involved to identify a problem that stuck all the DR tests in a large enterprise, let me show you a description of the environment. ENVIRONMENT The Customer have a Production Hyper-V Farm (multiple HV clusters) on a Primary Datacenter, this farm have multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Number) on a Storage visible …
TQA: Add-ClusterVirtualMachineRole fails with the error “The File Exists” Continue Reading
I travel a lot in Italy, and many times I see multiple customers that are asking for the same requests. One request is the possibility to block some specific passwords in Active Directory. Unfortunately too many users have BAD habits and use the company name in the password field for example. In those cases, the Security …
Step-By-Step: Implementing Azure AD Password Protection On-Premises Continue Reading
Today I want to share with you a direct experience from the field. One customer received from the security team the request to disable the RC4 ETYPE (Encryption Type) for Kerberos for the windows 10 Clients, so the support team have created a GPO to disable this Etype, without thinking too much about the consequences. …
Tough Questions Answered: Can I disable RC4 Etype for Kerberos on Windows 10? Continue Reading
Recently I have received a support request from a Customer that need to add multiple value to a GPO. Lets dive into the details. ENVIRONMENT The customer installed a new third party application is his client environment (Windows 10), this application require a specific GPO to be set on all Clients. The vendor of the …
Tough Questions Answered: How to add multiple values to a GPO with a listbox. Continue Reading
This time I was involved in a root cause analysis on a customer site after a brute force attack vs some ADFS endpoints. Let me give you an overview of the infrastructure. ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION The customer environment is very huge and complex, but I have simplified it in the following picture: Has you can see …
Recently I was involved in a troubleshooting on a SQL Always-On failover cluster on a Windows Server 2012R2, and let me say… ”A SPECIAL ALWAYS ON CLUSTER!” PROBLEM DESCRIPTION The customer has a branch office in a remote site, with a physical SQL Always On Cluster.He wants to move this physical cluster from the remote …
Recently I was involved in a troubleshooting case about the maximum number of logical processor used by a specific application, running on Windows Server 2008 R2, let me give you some data. ENVIRONMENT: OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Server model: Cisco UCS Blade Server N° of physical socket: 2 N° of core per socket: 18 …
