Category: Windows 10
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End of Days

In the IT field there are a number of different names for it. CompTIA seems to use two terms: End of Life (EOL) denotes that a product is no longer available for purchase, and End of Service Life (EOSL) means that it is no longer supported by the vendor. Microsoft uses the term End of…
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Security Baselines in Intune
Okay, if you are a strong believer in cybersecurity, raise your hands. Okay, you can put them all down now. While I know there are people out there who believe that everything should be open to everyone, I doubt they are reading my blog. Next: If you bought/acquired/were gifted/found/inherited your current computer and, before doing…
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Virtual Machines on Windows Home: Oracle VirtualBox
**NOTE: Part of this article was copied straight from an article I published a few months ago called Kali on VirtualBox: Start to Done. The steps to install Oracle VirtualBox are no different, and it I did not feel the need to reinvent the wheel. –MDG — I teach a lot of different classes and…
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Kali on Windows: The Full Monty!
This is the third in my series of articles on installing Kali Linux on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Before performing these steps, make sure you have performed all of the necessary steps from the previous two articles, found here: Kali on Windows Kali on Windows: Adding the Desktop Of course, in the first article…
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Kali on Windows
This will be the first in a series of three (3) articles that I am writing to take my readers step-by-step through the installation of Windows Subsystem for Linux, installing Kali Linux on that, and then converting that minimal installation into a complete Kali toolset, including the desktop, and the ability to connect to it…
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Windows Insider for Business from Microsoft Intune
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URLs, Glorious URLs!

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Centralized Drive Encryption From the Cloud
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Reducing Windows 10 Attack Surface with Intune
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Delivery Optimization: Know your options
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Windows Intune: Deployment Profiles
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Building Your Local Lab: Creating your virtual machines
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Building Your Local Lab: Configuring Hyper-V
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Building Your Local Lab: Installing Hyper-V on Windows 10
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Anti-Malware: Managing Defender from Intune

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