Had a customer with Kaspersky antivirus had files flagging Powerpoint files as Virus per below but full scanning them didn’t come back with anything Reopening the file […]
Windows Hello For Business
What each setting does SettingEffectAllow Secondary Authentication DeviceAllows a companion device (phone) to be used as a second factor on the lock screenConfigure Web Sign In Allowed […]
Sql Server Data Tools visual studio community vs Sql Management Studio speed
SSMS is faster for most DBA tasks. Here’s the breakdown: TaskBetter ToolRunning queriesSSMSBrowsing tables/dataSSMSManaging logins/permissionsSSMSSchema comparisonsSSDT (VS)Database projects / source controlSSDT (VS)Deploying dacpac changesSSDT (VS) SSMS starts faster, is […]
Script to get list of Machines not enrolled into Intune but enrolled into Defender
High CPU for OpenJDK Platform Binary
I had to disable perfproc counters and restart CMD as administrator lodctr /d:PerfProc
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Use Powershell 7 Error Code: 53003 Request Id: 18a45702-440d-4a43-8f52-00b10eea2000 Correlation Id: 3e55c6a6-4d55-456b-a001-2f06889a255f Timestamp: 2026-05-11T05:24:21.372Z App name: Microsoft Graph Command Line Tools App id: 14d82eec-204b-4c2f-b7e8-296a70dab67e IP address: 2405:70c0:9201:1900:d56:43e3:f33a:56a7 […]
Python – ssl.SSLError: [SSL: LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS] library has no ciphers (_ssl.c:3135)
What’s wrong The failure is not pip or your packages. ssl is broken before any download: creating a TLS context raises SSL: LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS. We confirmed: So OpenSSL is reading a system config that […]
Secure Boot
Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName “\Microsoft\Windows\PI\Secure-Boot-Update” [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI db).bytes) -match ‘Windows UEFI CA 2023’ I found that in the BIOS of those laptops under “Security\Secure Boot” the “Platform Mode” was “Setup […]
Aruba Central “There is no device to upgrade” setting Firmware
For some reason you have to go into the group and set this at the group level instead of in Global
Azure Agent Pipeline ADO – The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.
Get-MgUser_Get: User is not in the allowed roles
I had a user with the correct Entra Roles and also Graph Scopes however it was not allowing me to pull the sign in activity Get-MgUser -UserId […]
ProfWiz Screen Flicking
or The issue was caused by UCPD after migrating with profwiz. Resetting the default pdf viewer and default browser specifically for http and https resolved the issue […]