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Group SOA Conversion – From AD to Entra!

2025-08-022025-08-02 Anthony J. Fontanez

Entra Connect Sync 2.5.76.0 was released on 2025-07-31, and the release notes included a cool new feature: Group Source of Authority conversion feature allowing administrators

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Obsolete Security – Stop Setting These Policies!

2025-04-062025-04-08 Anthony J. Fontanez

The settings in the above screenshots were fairly common to be applied to all workstations as a requirement 20-ish years ago. However, it’s now 2025,

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Active Directory PKI

Migrating an Online Issuing CA & OCSP

2024-03-162024-03-16 Anthony J. Fontanez

This post is mostly sourced from https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/step-by-step-migrating-active-directory-certificate-service-from/ba-p/2328766, along with some helpful notes, screenshots, and code samples from my own experience. It’s mostly here for my

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Active Directory Azure AD Intune Security

Remotely Managing Windows Endpoints Part II: Azure AD Joined Hosts

2022-11-042022-11-04 Anthony J. Fontanez

Part I Alright, now on to where things get more complicated, WinRM connections to and from Azure AD joined clients. I’m going to use two

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Active Directory Security

Remotely Managing Windows Endpoints Part I: Domain/Hybrid Joined Hosts

2022-11-042022-11-04 Anthony J. Fontanez

After a number of conversations with Adam Gross in Discord voice on WinAdmins about this topic, which initially started on Twitter a while back, I

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Active Directory PKI

Managing Two-Tier PKI in a Lab Environment

2022-02-032022-02-03 Anthony J. Fontanez

If you’re crazy like me, you go all out when running a homelab. Multiple domain controllers, role-based access, separate servers per role (for the most

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Active Directory

Group Policy Loopback Processing, Done Correctly

2021-10-112021-10-11 Anthony J. Fontanez

It’s 2021, why am I writing a post about Group Policy? Everyone has retired their AD infrastructure and is using Intune for everything now, right?

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Active Directory Security

Windows Firewall: The Series

2021-09-162021-09-16 Anthony J. Fontanez

I’ve had an idea for a while now to write a series of posts covering configuration of the Windows Firewall, including topics such as: Basic

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Active Directory Azure AD Security

Windows Firewall Part 6: Azure AD Joined Clients

2021-09-162021-09-16 Anthony J. Fontanez

At this point, it’s now possible to make any/all services available from anywhere utilizing certificate authentication to Domain Controllers, obtaining computer and user Kerberos tickets,

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Active Directory Security

Windows Firewall Part 5: Bootstrapping Kerberos via Certificate Authentication

2021-09-162021-09-16 Anthony J. Fontanez

Part 5 of this series will go over how to utilize certificate authentication to make services available from anywhere, without the need of a traditional

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