LAPS allows you to rotate passwords of your local administrator accounts. It gives you the possibility to view and set admin passwords from commandline or by using the fat client on a management computer. This reduces the risk of one hacked machine comprimising your whole client network. This article will show you how to set... Continue Reading →
Managing Temporary Group Memberships using the new GroupMemberTTL PowerShell Module
As you may know the Microsoft approach on Privileged Access Management Feature (PAM) is quite a big feature. Planning and implementing this solution takes a lot of time. Also, many of us just want to enjoy one small part of the PAM solution. That's why I came up with a module to manage the TTL... Continue Reading →
Setting up Active Directory on Windows Server 2019 Core and join DCs and Members to the Domain
The Windows Server 2019 Core installation of a domain controller will be something you might need in the future. This is the bare minimum you need to install a Domain Controller and a new domain. I tried to make it as short as possible. Prerequisites: At least tone installed Windows Server 2019 Core server30 minutes... Continue Reading →
SCCM Installation Error 0xC1900204 Windows 10 1909
Sometimes the error 0xc1900204 can occur in the update if english is not set as default display language. To fix this problem, you have to make sure that your registry is configured correctly. To check your settings, follow the steps below: Open up the registry and go to the following key: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Language Change the value... Continue Reading →
How to create a simple flow with Mircosoft-Automate
I want to show you how easy it is to create a small workflow with Microsoft Power Apps, this can be very practical for several reasons. We want to create a form where the user can choose when he wants to migrate his computer, also he should say in which office he is sitting at... Continue Reading →
Use PowerShell via context menu to remove double entries from your clipboard
This is a small example for handy use of PowerShell. In this post, I will show you how to clean up your clipboard from double entries by using PowerShell. We will also add it to the context menu for easy access. To clean up the clipboard we will use Get-Clipboard to fetch it and use... Continue Reading →
Give a specific user the right to restart a specific service
I often had the situation that a user has to restart a service he needs, and since I don't want to do that all the time, I found a pretty good solution to give him exactly those rights 😉 Enable the rights on the server site First, we need a Little tool, download the SubInAcl... Continue Reading →
Create an application with multiple pages using Microsoft Power Apps
I was shocked the first time I want to create a multipage application with Microsoft Power Apps. It seemed very complicated to me. But if you know how you have to handle this tool you will get really comfortable with it quite fast. Let's Do IT If we want to use data over multiple screens... Continue Reading →
Never tried Windows Sandbox? – This will change your mind
Windows what? Windows Sandbox, a feature that I completely missed. Then I tried it once and loved it immediately. It takes you literally 5 minutes to set up and is really useful in your daily sysadmin tasks. Prerequisites for using the feature (source: docs.microsoft.com) Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise Insider build 18305 or laterAMD64 architectureVirtualization... Continue Reading →
Create a Side-to-Side VPN with AZURE and Sophos
In this short article, I want you to show how easy it is to create a VPN between your private network and an AZURE Cloud network. Table of Content AzureSophosThe Short Way Azure First of all, we have to think about the planned network, to get a plan of what we want to do... So... Continue Reading →