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Proactive Phishing Protection: How to Use O365 Defender to Quickly Remove Suspicious Emails

In a recent security event, an unauthorized party launched a phishing campaign impersonating our superintendent. To preempt a flood of support tickets and enhance our organization’s cybersecurity posture, we swiftly took action to eliminate the malicious email from all user mailboxes across the network. I discovered the most straightforward approach was utilizing O365 Defender. You […]

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Migrating hundreds of PSTs to Exchange 356 via Import and PowerShell

I’m currently in the process of of extracting every mailbox from exchange .edb and exporting them to individual PST’s per user. Started doing this by hand and it was taking forever. Here is the process I used to streamline it. Exporting PSTs We purchased a copy of Stellar Repair for Exchange then exported mailboxes as

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Graylog | Finding failed login attempts that lock out AD Users

I’ve been using the free trial of Netwrix to find failed logins and sadly it’s way out of our budget for K-12 so I’ve been searching for another solution and can help the team. We’ve been having an uptick in AD accounts getting locked due to numerous login failed attempts. 99% of the time it’s

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How to Setup and Deploy LAPS | Local Administrator Password Solution

LAPS provides a way to automatically rotate the local Administrator password on domain joined machines every X amount of days to a random password. I’ll be installing it on one of my domain controllers. Download LAPS and Install. Download LAPS and be sure to install all the management tools also. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 Extend the AD Schema

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Google Chrome Extensions partially invisible inside VMware Workstation VM

I’ve been having trouble using chrome extensions inside a windows 10 VM. Reinstalled Chrome, cleared the cache, disable all extensions etc. yet I still have the issue. Everything else looks fine! Normally I wouldn’t care as most of the time they’re not needed except for when I want to access some of my passwords via

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PowerShell – Generate password from word list and numbers for AD User

I’ve always used a random password generator for some sub accounts that change weekly via task scheduler. The issue with that is the lower case l and 1’s depending on the systems font look very similar resulting in tickets saying the password doesn’t work. I’ve patched together this script from a few online sources and

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