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This blog post describes how I discovered a (currently inactive) Moroccan scam ring. In 2021, I started looking for a short .com domain for a potential business in the future. After a lot searching I finally landed on cotyx.com that was available and only 5 letters long! As any IT person would, I added it to M365 and didn’t think much more about it. In 2024, to optimize my expenditure, and since I was closing my freelance company....

At my customer, we had 1 Windows Server with quite a slow login process. The screen would be stuck on “Other User” for about 2-3 minutes every time a new user tried to login or unlock the locked account. After checking a few things, we noticed that the server is Hybrid AD joined. dsregcmd /status We have the server leave the Hybrid AD join with the below command. dsregcmd /leave And when we check the status now, the server is no longer Hybrid joined and the login process is faster....

Today I started my journey on learning terraform. During the Azure login process in Powershell, I ran into the following error: User cancelled the Accounts Control Operation.. Status: Response_Status.Status_UserCanceled, Error code: 0, Tag: 528315210 I’ve never had this issue before, so I was a bit puzzled. It seems that since version 2.61.0, that the Web Account Manager (WAM) is now the default authentication method. Luckily we can bypass the WAM using PowerShell and proceed to login....

I was recently busy migrating a customer from the classic ASR vault to the modernized ASR vault. However, during the process I ran into an issue. This post is to explain the issue and how you can easily resolve it yourself. In my scenario, I already deployed modern vault in Azure with a new ASR appliance. In your classic ASR vault, navigate to replicated items and click on Upgrade to modernized VMware replication....

Navigate to the Azure portal -> Azure Arc -> Azure Stack HCI and click on Download Azure Stack HCI. Select the version, in this case we will go with the latest version and we agree to the terms and proceed to click on Download Azure Stack HCI. Flash the ISO on a USB device using rufus or a similar program, plug it into the server and enter the button to enter the boot menu....