February 8, 2023

Azure MFA | Number Matching Enabled by Default

Number matching is a key security upgrade to traditional second factor notifications in Microsoft Authenticator. Microsoft will remove the admin controls and enforce the number match […]
February 8, 2023

Microsoft Defender for Identity | Enable NTLM Auditing

If you recently deployed Microsoft Defender for Identity on your Domain Controllers and haven’t gone through all the prerequisites, you may find that you receive health […]
December 2, 2022

Field Notes: Service running with gMSA account not starting

I recently deployed a new Active Directory Forest in my lab on Windows Server 2022. I wanted to configure the Microsoft On Demand Assessments for Active […]
November 29, 2022

Disable Server Manager automatic startup

I have logged onto my Windows Server many times only having to wait for Server Manager to finish loading when I log onto the server. I […]