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Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Geetha Sivasailam on Power Platform, User Groups & In-Person conferences Geetha Sivasailam is a Solutions Architect/Dev/Consultant at Artis…

As your organization’s logical layout changes, you may need to delete OUs in Active Directory (AD) from your domain controllers. In this post, we’ll show you two different ways to delete protected OUs (Organizational Units) and what minor roadblocks you may come across while doing so. Why you cannot delete protected OU in Active Directory…

Purple Knight is a free security assessment tool for Microsoft Active Directory that scans the AD environment for indicators of exposure (IOEs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs), provides an overall security score, and offers remediation guidance from identity security experts. This article is sponsored by Semperis. Recently, Petri interviewed several organizations in North America to…

In this guide, I’ll explain how AWS Lambda lets you run your code in a cloud-based ‘serverless’ infrastructure, and how you can create an AWS Lambda function to perform any type of computing task. There are four different ways to create an AWS Lambda function, but I’ll be using the web-based AWS Management Console to…

If your company is interested in modernizing its infrastructure with Azure hybrid computing capabilities, you can now do so by deploying Azure Stack HCI on a single-node cluster. In this guide, I will explain the main use cases for single-node deployments before showing you how to install Azure Stack HCI single-node clusters with PowerShell. How…

Windows 10 offers many ways for you to reset a forgotten password. However, the steps you’re required to follow to reset your password are different depending on whether you’re using a local account or a Microsoft account. Whether you’re using one or the other, here’s how to reset your password in a few easy steps….

Just like that, it’s Summer. Though many are thinking about sand and sun, we’re too excited about the recent Microsoft Power Platform updates released in May 2022 to pack our bags before checking out what’s new!  Let’s take a look at the main new capabilities that Microsoft introduced last month. Power Apps gets a new…

DevOps Pipelines help you to deliver new features in your apps fast! In this article, I will explain what DevOps pipelines are, phases in a pipeline, and the different components. I’ll also cover what you need to understand before building a DevOps pipeline of your own, along with the build process. DevOps has revolutionized the contemporary IT…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to use the command-line tool ipconfig. If you’re an IT admin, ipconfig is a very useful console application program that can help you troubleshoot network connectivity problems in Windows. Linux and other operating systems (OS) have similar capabilities, but they often use different commands to achieve…

Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Nate Chamberlain on Microsoft Teams MS-700 exam guide Nate Chamberlain is a Microsoft 365 adoption, content, and training…