You can use the Windows app to connect to an Entra-joined Windows device. If you’re reading this you have most likley hit a variety of errors with different combinations of settings such as: You may have tried things like disabling NLA, using azuread\username@domain.com, etc etc and they haven’t worked. Here’s what worked for me: You will get a modern auth prompt when connecting and you can do full MFA. Use the full UPN of the…
As you may have heard, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has decided to retire “Office 365 Connectors” for Teams. At first this sounds innocuous until you realize this also includes the incoming webhook connector which allows webhooks to trigger Teams messages. Thats a very handy feature in the world of automation. The replacement solution is to use “Workflows” which is really just a fancy name for PowerAutomate also/previously/better known as Flow. There are a variety…
Background With the potential of SSL certificates in Chrome being considered expired after 90 days and the inevitable downtime from not renewing a certificate in time, its time to get serious about automating the renewal and installation of certificates on all platforms. This process is well honed for popular webservers but other applications require custom solutions. Microsoft Remote Desktop Services relies heavily on trusted SSL certificates to function properly. I’ve worked on two methods of…
Problem Statement and Proposed solution I use Apple HomeKit as my smart home platform of choice. Its not perfect and doesn’t have nearly the ecosystem that Alexa does but I like it and it compliments the fact that I use mostly Apple devices in the rest of my network. I don’t do anything all that complicated because I rent so there is a limit to the amount of smarts I can integrate. One feature I…
Three is the magic number In parts 1 and 2 we discussed IPv6 addressing, and connection basics then configured a Fortigate to grab a DHCPv6 PD prefix and distribute it with SLAAC to clients on the inside network. In this episode I will go over the Fortigate firewall and security policy configuration to get your IPv6 traffic out to the Internet. The illusion of control In part 1 I discussed how router advertisements are sent…