Managing an ever-growing task list as an IT engineer takes more than willpower. Here's the analog and digital hybrid system I've developed over the years. Covering daily planning, journaling, and logging to stay on top of everything without letting anything drop.

Duplicate SPN Active Directory issues cause Kerberos authentication to fall back to NTLM, a weaker protocol vulnerable to relay attacks, pass-the-hash, and brute force cracking. Finding and removing duplicate SPNs is a straightforward fix that most environments overlook entirely. What is a Service Principal Name? Service principal names (SPN) is used by Kerberos to link a service to a service account. This allows a user to access a service without knowing the service account

Do you need to search all of your group policies to find a setting and do not want to spend a lot of time clicking around? Well, I did. I...