Griff Barker

Don't want to read a blog post but want to check out hybrID on GitHub?

🔗 github.com/griffeth-bar...

Crucially, this is a far cry from a polished or feature-rich application. Just a burgeoning idea with some future plans/ideas. But I've been trying to get better at putting this up quickly and not waiting forever for them to be "good enough" (i.e., never, in my mind).

So many orgs are sitting in a hybrid state between their on-prem and cloud Microsoft infrastructure. But where to manage the objects? Some are here, some are there. This little idea will hopefully grow into something that can be helpful to folks in that situation.

griff.systems/posts/hybrID...

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Always like a peek into things in which I'm not extensively experienced.

Ah well that changes everything, doesn't it? That takes me a bit out of my depth.

Is domain specified by FQDN not NetBIOS name?
If specifying a target SPN, does it include the desired realm?

Unfortunately I won't be much help past here. But still curious to hear when you get it worked out.

ADMX_Kerberos Policy CSP Learn more about the ADMX_Kerberos Area in Policy CSP.

Yes, "Define host name-to-Kerberos realm mappings", it's under the same Kerberos set of policies: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

ADMX_Kerberos Policy CSP Learn more about the ADMX_Kerberos Area in Policy CSP.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

"This policy setting configures the Kerberos client's mapping to KDC proxy servers for domains based on their DNS suffix names. If you enable this policy setting, the Kerberos client will use the KDC proxy server for a domain when a domain controller cannot be located based on configured mappings."

There's a policy "Specify KDC proxy servers for Kerberos clients"

Does the domain to which the machine is joined have a group policy object configured for Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Kerberos ?

You ever just stop to think about all the little things we kinda take for granted in our jobs? I touch stuff like Markdown, JSON, mermaid charts, etc. constantly every day without thinking about it and today I was just like, huh, it's nice that we have stuff like this.

Defuddle now has a website!

This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format.

You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

A lot of people agree with you, and that's why that is something that the PowerShell team is hoping to look at this year, last I heard. If I got that wrong from the community call, someone step in an correct me.

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To whomever wrote pretty much any of the Solarwinds Rest APIs with which I've interacted...same.

I think that's more of a frustration with Exchange Online than it is PowerShell, no?

What's the retention policy applied to the mailbox/Purges folder? Is there a litigation hold on the mailbox?

My QoL is gonna be improving 📈🚀

In all seriousness, you just made my day! This is awesome and I will *definitely* be using this. I spend a huge amount of time daily in various PS sessions with anywhere from 1 to 3+ different MS cloud services connected so this is huge.

(And yes, many of those GH issues are very familiar)

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Don't misunderstand me -- I strongly dislike Windows as an OS, particularly in more recent years. I'm just saying that not everyone can "just pick *nix tooling". Unfortunately real life has more facets and considerations than a perfect world.

And an age range of end users who make up a large portion of the workforce are most familiar with Windows endpoints.

So then you need a toolkit to manage fleets of those devices at scale. I'm unaware of any major *nix-based tooling that excels at enterprise Windows fleet management.

Not every industry in existence has industry standard software/systems that are always available natively on/as *nix systems. Plenty of industries out there where all the industry standards run specifically on Windows.

I've cared about jQuery in the sense that I've had to care about the many vulnerabilities to it that existed in some previous envs I was administering, but beyond that...

Unless the environment you are required to use is a Windows environment.

It is wild to me how so many people on the internet assume that 100% of people have free reign over choosing what their environment/tooling/pipeline is made up of.

This is the real truth of it, and at this point, I'm convinced all operating systems suck. Doesn't mean there aren't merits to them all, or that they aren't changing all the time, but in general I have a variety of issues with every OS I've used.

LLMs seem to often use en/em dashes (U+2013/U+2014) instead of hyphens (U+002D) and smart quotes (U+201C/U+201D) instead of standard double quotes (U+022).

my name is griff and i support this crash out

Does Finder take less than 10 seconds to load? Because if so, I'll take it. File Explorer (at least in Windows 11 these days) is an abysmal experience.