Microsoft 365 Information Protection
As part of IT Security, Information Protection is the ability to classify and protect documents created by employees. Information Protection provides the ability to restrict who, what and when documents can be opened, read and re-transmitted.
Backup your On-premises Servers to Microsoft Azure Backup
A quick guide on how use Microsoft Azure Backup service to backup your physical on-premises Servers (not virtualised).
Sync Microsoft 365 Azure Active Directory to Active Directory
Typically Azure AD Connect is used to sync existing Active Directory users to Microsoft 365 Azure Active Directory, but what happens when your’re deploying a new server and have no users to sync? Or when your Azure Active Directory is already populated and your local Active Directory is empty? We’ll show you how.
Resolve High CPU usage by Local Service (No Network) on Windows Server 2016
If your server is running unresponsive with high CPU usage attributed by something called ‘Local Service (No Network)’, then it probably is an issue with Windows Firewall.
How to Create a Site 2 Site Azure VPN
One of the first steps when moving to the cloud is setting up a network connection from your existing network to Azure. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) between your office and Azure is secure and it’s not too hard to do!
Configure Cisco IOS Anyconnect IKEv2 VPN with Local accounts and SSL Certificates
Configure Cisco Anyconnect VPN using real SSL certificates instead of selfsigned. This configuratiobn was done on a Cisco C1111-x router with IOS-XE 16.9.3
Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop
Organisations who currently have Azure resources in the cloud either hybrid or fully migrated can now replace their Remote Desktop Server. Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) allows users to connect to session hosts similar to RDS but have a ‘desktop’ experience. Previously when connecting to an RDS server, users were actually receiving a ‘server’ experience as RDS runs on a Windows Server 2016/2019 system.
Office365 Region Based Spam Blocking
If your organisation does not have a legitimate reason to communicate with other countries, Office365 has built in region (country) based email blocking that you should switch on!
How to Configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Remote Desktop Server
Microsoft now makes it easy for you to add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to your Windows Remote Desktop Server using their Azure MFA service. Here is how to set it up.
Free Office365 / Microsoft365 Backup for all*
Using Veeam’s Office365 Community Edition, you can backup up to 10 Mailboxes completely free of charge.