Simple Room Resources: Setting Up Room Calendars in Exchange Online
Reading Time: 8 minutes If you are new to Microsoft 365 administration, simple room resources are one of the first things people will ask you to fix. Someone double-booked the big conference room. A meeting got auto-declined for no clear reason. The room shows up in…
GPOs with PowerShell
Reading Time: 5 minutes Every AD environment I’ve inherited has had the same problem. Hundreds of GPOs, half of them doing nothing, and nobody willing to delete any of them because nobody knows which ones are actually in use. So they sit there. They slow down…
Working In the System
Reading Time: 5 minutes Working Within the System: Notes from a Sysadmin I’ve been doing this work long enough to watch the same pattern play out over and over. An admin gets handed a problem, sees a cleaner way to solve it, and instead of working the problem inside…
For the Love of LDAP
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the past 5 years, I have heard the conversation of how do we move our AD to the cloud. Oh the cloud, loud, mild, my child, it’s not as easy as you think. There are things in older environments that can tur some people’s feathers if it ever…
Let’s Match it up
Reading Time: 14 minutes Growing up, I watched my parents do this thing that feels kind of rare now. They didn’t just go to work. They built a work life. Like the kind that bleeds into the community, where people know your name, and your effort leaves marks in places…
Entra ID source anchor attribute
Reading Time: 5 minutes So, here I am looking down at a project to create a new domain and migrate users. Normally this isn’t a bad process. You clone the user on the other domain and have them sign in. Use a tool like Profwiz or ADMT (assuming it works). Then I…
Intune Detection Rules
Reading Time: 5 minutes The other day, I was showing a friend how to set up Intune deployments. Then it hit me: I have unique scripts for script detections and things like that here on therandomadmin.com. However, I haven’t really gone through the detection rules for…
What is Azure AD DS
Reading Time: 7 minutes The VPN tunnel was solid. We had split-tunnel traffic, per-user group policies, and MFA layered on Azure AD sign-ins. Nothing fancy, just a Meraki firewall and a bunch of cloud-native users on laptops. Then someone asked for Wi-Fi to…
DREAM prompt framework
Reading Time: 22 minutes It was one of those afternoons where my Dr Pepper was flat but the ticket queue was very much not. I’d been asked to sketch a plan for Veeam backups across 500 TB of mixed storage, and my brain felt like a RAID array rebuilding on one disk. I…