What each setting does SettingEffectAllow Secondary Authentication DeviceAllows a companion device (phone) to be used as a second factor on the lock screenConfigure Web Sign In Allowed […]

SSMS is faster for most DBA tasks. Here’s the breakdown: TaskBetter ToolRunning queriesSSMSBrowsing tables/dataSSMSManaging logins/permissionsSSMSSchema comparisonsSSDT (VS)Database projects / source controlSSDT (VS)Deploying dacpac changesSSDT (VS) SSMS starts faster, is […]

I had to disable perfproc counters and restart CMD as administrator lodctr /d:PerfProc

Use Powershell 7 Error Code: 53003 Request Id: 18a45702-440d-4a43-8f52-00b10eea2000 Correlation Id: 3e55c6a6-4d55-456b-a001-2f06889a255f Timestamp: 2026-05-11T05:24:21.372Z App name: Microsoft Graph Command Line Tools App id: 14d82eec-204b-4c2f-b7e8-296a70dab67e IP address: 2405:70c0:9201:1900:d56:43e3:f33a:56a7 […]

What’s wrong The failure is not pip or your packages. ssl is broken before any download: creating a TLS context raises SSL: LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS. We confirmed: So OpenSSL is reading a system config that […]

Start-ScheduledTask -TaskName “\Microsoft\Windows\PI\Secure-Boot-Update” [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI db).bytes) -match ‘Windows UEFI CA 2023’ I found that in the BIOS of those laptops under “Security\Secure Boot” the “Platform Mode” was “Setup […]

For some reason you have to go into the group and set this at the group level instead of in Global

I had a user with the correct Entra Roles and also Graph Scopes however it was not allowing me to pull the sign in activity Get-MgUser -UserId […]

or The issue was caused by UCPD after migrating with profwiz. Resetting the default pdf viewer and default browser specifically for http and https resolved the issue […]

We have an issue with a few users relating to outlook connecting outlook to CRM and tracking outlook emails to CRM. I have checked the email profile, […]