Tips & Tricks
How to Backup BitLocker Recovery Key to AD
Recently, I was helping someone troubleshoot and issue with BitLocker and is storing its key within AD. In other words, to help troubleshoot this issue, we needed to ensure that we could manually backup BitLocker recovery key to AD. They asked how do you do that?...
How to Write a WQL Query
You know I always like to help those who try to help themselves. While reading Reddit post entitled SCCM Collection missing machines... the person was looking for all computers that follow a particular naming convention. Their results were not that they expected. This...
Drinks
Not many people know that I took my bartender course several years back. As part of my homework for the course, I needed to create drinks unique drinks. Also, as part of this course we needed to edit existing drinks to make them used off the shelf aka “bar rail”...
How to Map OneDrive as a Mapped Drive
Like many of you I have my office OneDrive and my personal one drive. My personal OneDrive is connected to my phone and home computer. Sometimes, I need to copy files between my business personal computer and business computer. I really should say my blogging computer...
How to Enable BitLocker Recovery Information to Active Directory
While working on another blog on troubleshooting BitLocker, How to Manually Backup BitLocker Recovery Key to AD (coming out next week). I found out that I have not enabled these steps within my own LAB AD. For completeness, I thought that I would document how to store...
Why are my SSRS Chart Sorting Z-A?
As I write this blog, I’m working on a chart that has labels on it. I almost never add chart labels, instead I used an attached table with matching colors to show which values matches which line within the chart. But for this chart, it made sense to add labels to it....
How to Determine your Microsoft Entra ID Tenant ID?
This is one of those things that you need every once and a while but never seems to be at hand when you need it. You gloss over Microsoft Entra id tenant id every time you see it until you actually need it, then you can “never” find it. I always love when I search for...
How to Determine your Microsoft Entra ID Tenant ID?
This is one of those things that you need every once and a while but never seems to be at hand when you need it. You gloss over Microsoft Entra id tenant id every time you see it until you actually need it, then you can “never” find it. I always love when I search for...
How to Upload a PBIX to Report Server?
This seems like a simple task and it is but only if you do it a lot, like I do. I work with mostly Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Intune Administrators. SQL and Report Server is a foreign world to most of them. All they want is to make available a Power BI...
How to Create a Linked Report in PBRS
While working on another blog on how to delete RDL, PBIT, PBIX and Folders. I wanted to point out how do you delete Linked Reports. I was going to link to a blog on creating a Linked Report however noticed that I have never created one on How to Create a Linked...