Delete events in resource calendars

Recently, as part of a tenant-to-tenant migration, I ran into a problem where a customer had included all of their resource calendars (conference rooms, reservable equipment) in calendar migrations.

Unfortunately, once you’re no longer in the source tenant, you don’t have a way to cancel the meetings.… [ Continue reading ]

Deploying the SharePoint Lookbook and other PnP templates in GCC High

The SharePoint Lookbook series of templates are a design pattern that allow you to apply pre-built templates to SharePoint sites using the SharePoint PnP provisioning service.

Background

Recently, one of my customers asked for assistance in deploying a PnP site template to their GCC High (GCCH) Microsoft 365 environment. … [ Continue reading ]

Working around accounts that expire with AAD Connect: REDUX

When attempting to migrate a Microsoft 365 organization from federated authentication to Password Hash Sync, there are a couple of gotchas that can impact how you manage certain accounts.  These changes in authentication behavior determine whether you need to implement new workflows or business processes–changes surrounding expired accounts and accounts flagged to force password change on next logon.… [ Continue reading ]

Find a value in any property in AD

A few days ago, I was trying to find all instances of a value stored in AD.  I was trying to understand all of the places that a particular partial GUID value was being used. so I had to come up with a way to search all properties for all objects across the directory space.… [ Continue reading ]

Locating accounts in Active Directory that are expired but still active

While working with a customer over the past few weeks implementing a new AAD Connect synchronization rule to disable expired accounts, we wanted to evaluate how many accounts might be selected by such a rule.

Checking hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of accounts by hand doesn’t rank high on anyone’s list–fortunately, that’s what PowerShell was made for.… [ Continue reading ]

Working around accounts that expire with AAD Connect

When attempting to migrate a Microsoft 365 organization from federated authentication to Password Hash Sync, there are a couple of gotchas that can impact how you manage certain accounts.  These changes in authentication behavior determine whether you need to implement new workflows or business processes–changes surrounding expired accounts and accounts flagged to force password change on next logon.… [ Continue reading ]

Blocking Screen capture

Earlier today, a customer asked me how to block screen capture on Windows 10/11 devices.  Turns out, there are a few things we can do in the box.

Here we go!

Disclaimer: This post discusses modifying the Windows Registry. Please make a backup before changing any settings.[ Continue reading ]