Intro I recently managed to pass the Microsoft Certified : Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) exam. Preparation This time around I prepped a little differently. I attended the Microsoft SC-300 training course last week (Monday through Thursday). I took the evenings off to let my brain relax. …

Intro I recently managed to pass the Microsoft Certified : Azure Security Engineer Associate exam. Those of you that know me well will know that I’m not normally an exam/certification junkie - I’ve avoided them since high school all the way through my professional career until I went for …

Intro If you need to capture network traffic from a Windows server, you may find that that standards or controls in your organisation prevent or forbid you from installing tools such as Wireshark on your Windows servers. This may be enforced by AppLocker or other controls. However, if you do have …

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Intro In my first post in my Raspberry Pi NAS series, I mentioned I had issues with my external hard drives and had to buy an external (powered) USB hub, but I didn’t elaborate further. What’s The Issue? Among the many changes from its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 4 now uses USB-C as …

Intro In my last post, I walked you through the basic setup and Operating System install of a Raspberry Pi. Now lets move onto making it a NAS/Media Centre device. I actually went down 2 different paths - initially I went with OpenMediaVault and reverted to a my previous setup when I encountered …