DailyWorkTracking

2023

2023.01.17

  • Weird Vern Outlook flashing window disconnected alert
    • https://www.stephenhackers.co.uk/outlook-credentials-flashing-and-closing-constantly/
    • Opened Word, signed out of Verns M365 account within Word
    • Rebooted and had Vern sign back into M365 account in Word
    • Re-opened Outlook and all was fine.

2023.01.25

  • New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Vonage Business" -Direction Inbound -Program "C:\program files\vonage business\vonage business.exe" -Action Allow

2023.01.26

  • Replacement of Cache Module on HOST01 went well. Everything booted up and servers moved back over as expected. Everything looks good in the iLO now and it seems to have cleared up the issue we saw in the Failover Cluster Manager. Before the fix, HP-VOL01 (Cluster Storage - Volume6) only showed 16 GB free. Now, it shows 566 GB free. I'm guessing the low space issue was the cause for the FILE server I/O failure yesterday.

2023.02.14

2023.07.28

  • Configured MTA-STS on PowerDMARC for mtm main domain
  • Changed sp=quarantine to sp=reject on mtm's DMARC record
  • Yesterday, set up SPF flattening on PowerDMARC for mtm main domain

2023.08.03

  • Fixed gpologs share folder so that it is properly hidden
  • Made progress on snipe—ibex connection on a test page.

2023.08.08

  • Deleted old rT accounts as provided by Saulo
  • Added registry change via GPO to block Google Chrome browser signins
  • Creating a M365 group for Triage to access voicemail emails from call tree
  • The other day, I created a config profile in Intune to enable location info so that if stolen, devices can be found
  • This site is pretty neat—tildeverse.

2023.10.06

  • Parent corp called Cyprus Technology Services (cyprus.tech) and subdivision called Royce Printers (royceprinters.inc). Have a cyprus.tech user send as someone from royceprinters.inc

  • Create shared mailbox called "John Smith - Royce Printers" with "JSmith@royceprinters.inc" as email

  • then go to user made by shared mailbox in Admin Center and change default primary of JSmith@cyprus.tech to JSmith@royceprinters.inc

  • add JohnSmith@royceprinters.inc as alias to shared mailbox

  • add John Smith (johnsmith@cyprus.tech) as read/manage and send as.

  • set forward to johnsmith@cyprus.tech

  • do not show in global address list

2023.11.14

  • Last Friday, I created a PowerShell script to run on file01 that opens the Winter Capacity excel and saves every 15 mins. I tried doing this as a scheduled task, but it doesn't seem to run when I do this. So, for now, I have it set to just run at logon.

2024

2024.02.16

  • Created new proactive remediation in Intune for checking whether laptop battery health was below 40%. If so, a webhook is triggered.

  • Changed update channel for M365 apps from Semi-Annual to Current. Resumed Monthly Enterprise on config.office.com. Reasoning: It's been long enough to determine that any current bugs aren't being conflated.

  • Created new config profile in Intune using this info: Windows Health Monitoring. Should allow new health monitoring info to flow back to Intune.

  • Converted several platform scripts on Intune to Remediations

    • Grabbed procare installer info from GPO and re-worked it for the detection and remediation scripts.
    • Re-worked the script that forgets the "DATA" SSID on Windows laptops.

2024.02.24

  • Even after making the changes in the Excel Trust Center, would still get warning pop-up about external links. How to fix (stackoverflow)
    • After futher investigation, I believe the resolution was actually that I needed to delete the rows that had broken links

2024.03.02

  • Upgraded to Microsoft Entra Connect v2 on DC01

2024.03.11

  • A tech came out and replaced the part for the Cache Module on HOST02.
  • Discovered that I needed to open Excel separately and then open the Winter Capacity file. Then I could break bad links.

2024.03.12

2024.03.13

  • Deployed Intune remediation package to detect and remove OneLaunch PUP
  • Deployed Intune remediation package to remove Copilot button from taskbar

2024.03.18

  • Deloyed S/MIME extension for Chrome, Brave, and Edge via Intune as a remediation package. Also deployed the accompanying control (.msi).
  • Deployed Intune remediation package to find computers with old local admin password
  • Deployed Intune remediation package to notify when a user's computer can see their user folder via IP but not via server hostname. File cache may need to be cleared.

2024.05.03

  • Enabled OneDrive Sync app health dashboard by pushing out registry edit:
    • Created DWORD "EnableSyncAdminReports" set to "1" located at HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
  • Back in April, I contacted N-Able/Mail Assure to restrict our sending servers to just use US-based servers. The Netherlands-based servers had been used some which was causing deliverability issues with some orgs that had Geo-blocking enabled.

2025

2025.02.27

  • Modified 'CA004: Require multifactor authentication for all users' policy so that users at 'Named locations' are exempt from having to complete MFA periodically
  • Testing using Ubuntu with Active Directory. I have it joined to AD and I try to log in with the following format: "DOMAIN\domainuser", however, it doesn't actually log in—it just takes me back to the sign-in screen. It does show me the AD display name of the user, so there is some kind of communication with AD being done.
    • I even tried leaving the domain and rejoining with the following two commands:
      • sudo realm leave
      • sudo realm join -U domainjoinusername DOMAIN.LOCAL -v
    • This did successfully re-join to the domain, but the same issue occurred when trying to log in.

2025.11.18

  • Updated Outlook Web App icon via GPO. Downloads via cdn gomtm.
  • Testing pkg deployment and Jamf Now Custom Profiles for MacOS. Using iMazing at the moment. Also looking into zsh/bash scripting for deployment for macs