Recently at a customer there was an issue with a GPO and a service that couldn’t start due to User Rights Assignments being configured wrong. They were using a GPO per server to define this, but using a GPO per server isn’t very scalable and friendly to manage. The solution? Group policy preferences! We start by creating a GPO and navigating to Computer Configuration -> Preferences -> Control Panel Settings -> Local Users and Computers....
After a very painful installation process to get Proximus Ultra Fiber (8.5Gbps down/1.5Gbps up) I decided to remove the Proximus modem between my UDM-SE and the ONTP. According to the Proximus documentation, for an FFTH installation this can be done by using VLAN 20 on the WAN port of the UDM-SE. We can configure this by navigating to Settings -> Internet -> Primary (WAN 1). Under advanced, we need to select Manual and check the box next to VLAN ID....
At a previous company I worked at, we managed over 60+ sites, each with a dedicated /24 subnet and a preconfigured printer on a print server. The challenge was to automatically add the local printer and move printers from other sites when users traveled between sites. Initially, I used a heavily modified VBS script from a friend to address this issue. Although this solution worked, it was slow over 300 lines long....
During the prerequisite check of Azure Stack HCI I came across an odd error related to the storage. I had the minimum requirements of 2 NVMe drives, an RAID card in JBOD mode. Type 'ValidateHardware' of Role 'EnvironmentValidator' raised an exception: Hardware requirements not met. Review output and remediate: Rule: HealthCheckSource : Deployment\Hardware\3bc73c2f Name : AzStackHci_Hardware_Test_PhysicalDisk DisplayName : Test PhysicalDisk API SERVERNAME1 Tags : {} Title : Test PhysicalDisk API Status : FAILURE Severity : CRITICAL Description : Checking PhysicalDisk has CIM data Remediation : https://learn....
It seems that Dell now has a specific version of command configure that’s used for Intune. But why would we want to use it? Because it supports some neat features like an unique per device BIOS password that is managed by Intune. Download Dell Command | Configure Application and configure your desired BIOS settings. Click on Export config and save the CCTK file. Open the Microsoft Intune admin center portal and navigate to Devices -> Configuration....