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Disable “stale” user accounts for Office 365 and on-prem hybrid
We recently had a cyber audit at work – and one of the recommendations was to ensure that any user accounts not used within 90 days were disabled. Prior to us moving to Office 365 hybrid we did have an on-prem tool that would do this for us, checking on-prem domain controllers for last login…
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When product renaming and auto-updating f**k things up
A quick and dirty post today – in short – if you think you are using Azure App Proxy, and all-of-a-sudden your users are reporting Gateway Timeout error – check if your on-prem Azure App Proxy services are stuck. Kill any errant processes, you’ll see these stuck services disappear, and then you’ll have new services…
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SQL backup to Azure URL Blob: “Operating system error 50(The request is not supported.)”
I wanted to setup an on-premises SQL server to backup directly to Azure Blob storage, using Microsoft’s walk-through: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/tutorial-use-azure-blob-storage-service-with-sql-server-2016?view=sql-server-ver16. However, there is a mistake in the provided Powershell script – so things won’t work as expected. TLDR; Script truncates Shared Access Signature – add “s” at start of SECRET The script on the above page…
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My supplier has been compromised – should I still use them?
One of our suppliers was recently hit with a ransomware attack (or “cyber incident” as the new euphemism has it). As a result their systems were offline for several weeks. During this time they were relatively open to their customers about what had happened – they acknowledged it was ransomware, that they were in discussions…
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Cancelling Flow runs – surely it should be easier than this?
I have a Microsoft Power Automate Flow that is triggered by a webhook – and for “reasons” it received thousands of triggers that I didn’t want: Thousands of Flows that are about to do something that I don’t want…. Thousands. Luckily time is on my side – Power Automate will only let a few Flows…
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Button in SharePoint list to trigger PowerAutomate/Flow – a few tweaks
The situation I have a SharePoint list which holds information for generating data sharing contracts with external partners. I have a Flow linked to this that sends the data from the selected item over to Adobe Acrobat Sign to insert into a template, and then send out for electronic signature. Can it be improved? I’m…
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Password advice
These days we need passwords for everything – from accessing our work PCs, to reading messages on Gmail, to buying things on Amazon. It used to be the case that as long as you avoided easily guessable passwords you’d be fine – unfortunately those days are long gone. Read on for some advice on what…
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What happens when disaster strikes?
Back in 2012 I was faced with a failed RAID array for one of my clients, and had to go through a disaster recovery procedure. Shortly after I wrote a blog post for my (then) employer (ICT Partnerships), detailing what happened. Full details can be found in my original blog post here.