Azure Automation Runbook RBAC Delegation

Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more

Windows Server Homefolder Permission Fix

Here is another blog post by Mike Hosker and this time about home folder permissions.   Often in large active directory environments administrators will redirect users data to a share on the network commonly referred to as a homefolder. This data usually includes the users documents, pictures, music and videos folders and can include user … Read more

RADIUS Authentication using NPS on Server 2019 Bug

Recently I was tasked with setting up an Active Directory environment as the Radius authentication backend for a VPN solution, allowing users in the correct AD group to access the VPN using their AD credentials. Sounds easy enough….. right? Well, then this wouldn’t be a good read would it 🙂 It seems the built-in Windows … Read more

IIS Permissions Best Practice

Here is another blog post by Mike Hosker about IIS permissions in combination with WordPress addons on a VM: First, I must start off with a confession here. I totally borked the file permissions I am about to show you the first time I did this and was subsequently up until 5am rebuilding the server. … Read more

So, how did we do that blog move?

Greetings, Mike here – TopQore sys admin, bringing you my first blog post! Today I thought I would write a bit more about how we actually performed the migration of this blog (twice!). This post will actually come in two parts – this first post detailing the 2017 move from B2 Evolution to WordPress and … Read more

SCOM Reporting Webinar By Bob and John

We have an upcoming webinar with Savision this week featuring Microsoft MVP, Bob “SCOM-Bob” Cornelissen, Microsoft MVP, John Barretto and Savision’s Support Manager, Chris Malay. The webinar will guide you through the most important SCOM reporting features and take your SCOM reporting skills to the next level. Here is a quick summary of what we … Read more