I have been a huge fan of Synology for years! Back in the day, XPenology was a great way to have a virtualized instance of a Synology NAS that you could run as a virtual machine. Because of its extensive set of capabilities and ease of use, it was a no-brainer. Needless to say, I […]
In Today’s post, I would like to show you how to configure Microsoft Clustering across Virtual Machines with shared disk – so-called Cluster in a Box(CiB). Typical use case for Microsoft Cluster / Failover Cluster is to have cluster nodes with shared storage. Typical use case for Cluster in a Box is when you have to provide […]
Group Policy is a powerful tool that allows IT admins to configure policy across Windows PC in an enterprise environment. Every time a new setting is rolled out for Windows, the development team makes an ADMX template available that can be configured. The best part of this was ADMX or the Group Policy Settings is used to be […]
Back in December 2017 the User Experience (UX) for Azure AD login changed to a centered (or centred, depending upon where in the world you speak English) login page with pagination. Pagination is where you enter the username on one screen and the password on the next. This was covered in new Azure Active Directory centered […]
In my last post I showed my ADFS Sign On page for my it-worxx domain. Ink on the post wasn’t dry before I had several mails asking to explain how to do that. I’ll re-use some of the text I used on my other post about Bing Wallpaper automation, which you can find here. Disclaimer: Doing […]
Since we have quite a few general info that new employees need to know and read, we needed some kind of Welcome email for all the new employees. There is no generic solution or option implemented into newer Office or Exchange so some simple scripting is in order. This article is sort of reminder for […]
Setup ADFS in my home lab. There’s a single server called rak1adfs01.raxnet.global. The ADFS service is called adfs.raxnet.global and in DNS this is a CNAME to the server. When I go to https://adfs.raxnet.global/adfs/ls/IdpInitiatedSignon.htm I get a login prompt and even though I enter the correct credentials it doesn’t let me in. This is unlike what […]
In this short post, we will look at preventing a CAS server from proxying traffic. Let’s suppose you are migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 or even 2016 and you do not want your Exchange 2010 Server/s to act as a proxy target. You could run the following command to enable this: Set-ClientAccessServer –identity CASServer1 […]