The typical phone contract in America is a two year commitment with early termination fees to discourage you from leaving. I used my previous phone out of contract for a while to wait for my wife's phone to end its contract. Now, I am not willing to get back into contract and would not recommend it. Consumers give up too much freedom and flexibility with contracts that benefit … [Read more...]
Auditing the local Administrators group with PowerShell
Good security means knowing the endpoints of your environment. One component of endpoint security is knowing who is a local administrator on which computers. One sign that the endpoint might be compromised is having someone added to the local Administrators group who should not be there. Whether you regularly add primary users as Administrators or not, auditing this area can … [Read more...]
You must now register your drone with the FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration is now requiring the registration of all Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, or commonly known as drones) weighing more than 0.55 lbs. While drones are employed with military applications, civil uses are increasing for hobby and commercial purposes. The FAA registration is the first response to this increase in airspace activity. You may … [Read more...]
Optimizing the Skype for Business First-Run experience through the Registry
Skype for Business is unable to sign in to Office 365 using a Mandatory Profile. When you try to sign in with Skype for Business 2016, you receive an error: "Can't sign in to Skype for Business There was a problem acquiring a personal certificate required to sign in." Searching for any troubleshooting steps to try, I tried everything I found but eventually had to abandon … [Read more...]
How to tell if Firefox is 32-bit or 64-bit
Mozilla published the Windows 64-bit installer for Firefox to the Download page with yesterday's release of Firefox 43.0. You must have a 64-bit version of Windows to take advantage of the new version of the browser. There are two cosmetic bugs with the 64-bit version of Firefox that have been posted for a while without resolution. The first bug addresses installing the 64-bit … [Read more...]