UPDATED (05/23/22): Microsoft has issued emergency out-of-band (OOB) updates to fix Active Directory (AD) authentication difficulties. The OOB Windows updates are only available through the Microsoft Update Catalog and will…
There are many things that contribute to the cleanliness of your business’s IT system – and you may be surprised to know that this cleanliness directly affects the amount of…
This topic has come up for as long as Active Directory (AD) has been around: how do you create an OU structure that makes sense? When it really comes down…
We’re in week seven of our fITness challenge! If you missed last week’s challenge, you can catch up here. Week 7: Active Directory Cleanup Your business’s Active Directory is an…
When you create a group policy (GPO) for users or systems, they are typically in a certain organizational unit (OU) within Active directory. For example: categorizing sales versus HR. By…
We have all done it. You don’t know your ISP’s DNS off the top of your head or your ISP has recently changed. You are in a hurry to verify…
I’ve been an IT consultant for nearly 15 years. During that time, I’ve run across countless horror shows involving all manner of outages and technical glitches that plunged me into…
We’ve recently been asked about, and wanted to implement internally, self-service password resets via Office 365. Not only do we want to enable password resets, we also want to enable…
If you’ve stumbled upon this blog, you’ve realized you need to get your on-premises to Office 365 online directory synchronization upgraded. If you’ve been around as long as I have…
SSO… what does it really mean? For some time now we have understood SSO to mean Single Sign On, but lately I’ve been hearing folks in the Office 365 world…
