Configure ADFS and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
If you have an organization federated with Azure AD you can use Azure Multi-Factor Authentication to secure on-premises and cloud resources. By activating Azure MFA…
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
ADFS provides access control and single sign on (SSO) across a wide variety of applications (Office 365, cloud based SaaS applications, and applications on the…
NMAP: Network Mapper. Description.
NMAP is an open source tool for network exploration and security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks and single host. NMAP uses…
Disable permissions inheritance and remove access rights from folders using PowerShell
This week I moved all the data from a Windows file server to a Netapp CIFS share for a client. During the migration I used…
Move Virtual Machines from XEN to VMware
Move Virtual Machines from XEN to VMware. My client has asked me to move the virtual machines from his old XEN infrastructure to a new…
Get number of cores (VCpu) per cpu and socket using PowerCLI
The following script audit the VM servers on an ESX host or a Vcenter for number of CPUs, sockets and CPU per socket. Then write…
Active Directory Domains and Trust
MMC: Active Directory Domains and Trusts is the Microsoft Management Console snap-in that is used to administer domain trusts, domain and forest functional levels, and…
VMWare vCPU, vSockets and Cores per vSocket
In vSphere a vCPU is presented to the operating system as a single core cpu in a single socket. For example, Windows 2008 standard is…
Repair damaged Linux GRUB loader
The boot loader (such as Grand Unified Bootloader or GRUB) is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for…
Set-DnsClientServerAddress cmdlet
The Set-DnsClientServerAddress cmdlet sets one or more IP addresses for DNS servers associated with an interface. Parameters: AsJob CimSession This parameter runs the cmdlet in…