I managed to get my hands on a set of Logitech Meetup Kit for Microsoft Teams lately and almost immediately fell in love with both the equipment and the Microsoft Teams Room system. The one-touch to start the meeting works great and does improve a lot the whole video meeting experience. The Kit includes a 4K camera, a touch-enabled Tap […]
When it comes to moving emails from one mailbox to another, the first thing that comes to my mind is to use the ugly PST file. Export the emails from one mailbox and then import them into another, via Outlook. Truth be told, while it’s a feasible option, it’s daunting as hell. A much better option is to use PowerShell […]
Thanks to Reddit, my favorite place to wander when having nothing to do, for teaching me another technique that can be useful situations like this: We have a service running on a Linux VM, using open-source software. It works. Got a request from the marketing department to migrate the service to a paid hosted version that they used at a […]
Why? Here is a piece of free advice from Fabian Wosar (@fwosar), CTO of Emisoft. Click the link to see the whole thread. Or read along here. Here is free advice for all the ransomware threat actors out there: Do not obfuscate your decryption tools. Contrary to what you think, victims who paid the ransom will not blindly run the […]
Users are evils, the weakest link in the whole security defense system, myself included. So the best way to stop them from making stupid mistakes is to take away their ability to do so. That means, no more local admin rights, which has been the best practice for quite some time. To check what are the members in my Local […]
Cached credentials are extremely useful for laptops that don’t always connect to their domain controls. When you log into one that is outside of your network, Windows checks if the entered username and password match the local cached copy and will let you in if it does. But it’s not necessary on a desktop computer that is always wire-connected to […]
I was deploying a new Windows 10 installation on an old box via MDT the other day and it was failed. A quick Google search tells me that this is something to do with UEFI boot. It makes sense since it’s an old box. So, I created another sequence that only formats and prepares the disk for BIOS legacy boot […]
One of the steps deploying a computer these days is to encrypt the disk by enabling BitLocker in the sequence. But I was getting an error message telling me that the encryption failed because TPM Password missing. Please provide Password via TpmOwnerPassword or AdminPassword Since none of the password is present in the sequence or the configuration file, the encryption […]