Introduction We recently restructured our whole IP addressing schema. This was a mammoth job. The management of DHCP scopes was one part of this. We had to create around 20 new DHCP scopes and create reservations for all the devices that reservations in the old scopes. I thought to myself that this is the perfect time to learn about using…
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Issue When migrating mailboxes from Exchange On Premise to Exchange Online, it fails with the following error: Target user ‘Users Name’ already has a primary mailbox. Cause Long before we had ever thought about migrating to Exchange Online we had manually created some students in our Office 365 tenant (not using the Azure AD Connect) to give them access to…
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Pat McNamara I first came across Pat McNamara on the Joe Rogan Podcast Episode #1262 in March 2019. He is an interesting cat. He spent 22 years in the US Army mostly in Special Operations units. He works out like an animal everyday. He is an expert marksman. He could kill you with his bare hands. But he also doesn’t…
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Issue: We recently configured our Exchange Hybrid setup and were experiencing this error when sending mail from our mailboxes migrated to Exchange Online to the mailboxes still on Premise that had the alias: @ourdomain.mail.onmicrosoft.com (On Premise Mailboxes had this alias setup in preparation for migrating to Exchange Online). Cause: We use Mimecast for our email filtering. The mail loop was…
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“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” – Carol Welch Why? As I am no spring chicken anymore, I noticed from my training that even though I may be still in OK shape and getting a bit stronger and fitter, I am not getting sorer and not moving well. An example is…
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An “Unassigned Tickets” report is very useful for making sure everyday that all tickets are being picked up and not left sitting unassigned. Spiceworks has the built in report functionality which are great, but the only issue I have with them is that you cant put report content directly in an email, it sends it as an attachment. So I…
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I am working my way through the online course “Cert Prep: CompTIA Security+” by Michael Chapple. This is available on Lynda and LinkedIn Learning. These are my study notes- Section 1 – Threats, Attacks and Vulnerabilities 1.1 Malware 1.2 Understanding Attackers 1.3 Understanding Attack Types 1.4 Application Attacks 1.5 Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing 1.6 Impact of Vulnerabilities Section…
Continue Reading→Who couldn’t do with a confidence boost? Take 3 and a half minutes of your day and watch Jocko give his advice on how to increase your confidence.
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In this video Dr Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Satchin Panda discuss what ‘Time Restricted Feeding’ is and the benefits it has for the body. The video goes for 90 minutes but there is some great information in there. If you don’t have the time to watch the video, check out my notes below What is the circadian clock? Every…
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Power BI is a fantastic, and relatively easy, way of getting some great reports and analytics out of your Spiceworks database. UPDATE: I have added this video tutorial to hopefully make this clearer and easier to follow.
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