Author: John

Automate Lets Encrypt Renewals using Certify the web on Windows with Atlassian Jira behind a Apache Reverse Proxy

So been a while since my last post. I’ve been recently pushing our machines into Azure as well as automating as much as possible. We’ve got an internal Jira instance that we use. It is still running totally on a VM with no fancy Azure PaaS features on it. I have a Lets Encrypt SSL … Continue reading "Automate Lets Encrypt Renewals using Certify the web on Windows with Atlassian Jira behind a Apache Reverse Proxy"

Enabling BitLocker with Group Policy and backing up Existing BitLocker recovery keys to Active Directory

So getting BitLocker enabled in an Active Directory environment is fairly painless and helps to get your end user devices more Secure.  I’ll outline the steps you need to take to enable it as well as get the recovery keys stored in Active Directory.  I’ll also dive into replicating this setup on Azure AD/Intune in … Continue reading "Enabling BitLocker with Group Policy and backing up Existing BitLocker recovery keys to Active Directory"

Windows 10 May 2019 or 1903 Software Update Management Changes for WSUS and Config Manager

We’ve started to deploy the latest release of Windows 10 and it’s interesting to note that Microsoft have released with little fan-fare some changes to the way Updates are deployed for the 1903 release. Microsoft are now pushing updates through what is called the Unified Update Platform (see this RPC Mag article). Anyway, the main … Continue reading "Windows 10 May 2019 or 1903 Software Update Management Changes for WSUS and Config Manager"

Copying files from one server to another as a different user (two separate domains) using PowerShell

I’ve been working on needed to copy a number of files from one client site to another, my issue is that they have separate Active Directory domains and there is no trust between them. Using PowerShell, we can save a user credential and then use that to map a network drive with them and perform … Continue reading "Copying files from one server to another as a different user (two separate domains) using PowerShell"

Deploy Firefox in the Enterprise with uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger using Group Policy

So we’ve been deploying Firefox for quite a while pretty much everywhere we can however, only recently have we started standardising the deployments across the organisation’s that we manage. We’ve deployed Internal Root CAs using the CCK2 method to improve our user experience with Deep Packet SSL inspection however setting up configurations and extensions and … Continue reading "Deploy Firefox in the Enterprise with uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger using Group Policy"

Using Stunnel to Allow Legacy Apps and Devices that do not support SSL POP3 or TLS SMTP to Connect to Office 365

I’ve been busy lately assisting with a number of Office 365 migrations. Every single one is different and while many are straightforward, In some cases, you will find applications or devices that don’t support the requirements for connecting to Office 365 using TLS or SSL or they may not even work over standard ports such … Continue reading "Using Stunnel to Allow Legacy Apps and Devices that do not support SSL POP3 or TLS SMTP to Connect to Office 365"