🚀 On April 29th at EUC World Virtual, I’ll be presenting “From Hours to Minutes: Intune App Deployment Made Simple.”

Let’s turn complex Intune deployments into a breeze!

Join me live: worldofeuc.org/EUCWorld2026...

@worldofeuc.bsky.social #EUCWorldVirtual #Intune #EUC #WorldofEUC #EUCWorld

I Went to VMUG Connect Minneapolis 2026 I recently attended VMUG Connect in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from April 7th to 9th. This is the second round of VMUG Connect conferences. After the success of the first VMUG Connect in St. Louis, ...

🆕 I went to VMUG Connect 2026 in Minneapolis and it was a lot of fun! Here's how my experience was.

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#VMUGConnect #VMUGConnect2026 #Community #VMware #vExpert #VMUG

Lol the QR code resolves to something that looks like Base64 but it's not.

All checked in to VMUG Connect #VMUG #VMUGConnect

VMware vSphere CPU topology effects on VDI performance: NUMA vNUMA and CPU scheduling | GO-EUC Research is creating new knowledge

A new research: #VMware vSphere CPU topology effects on #VDI performance: NUMA vNUMA and CPU scheduling by Edwin de Bruin

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Microsoft Entra ID External MFA Microsoft recently announced that External Authentication Methods has been renamed to External MFA and is Generally Available. Microsoft also announced that Custom Controls is being deprecated, with i...

🚨 Entra ID External MFA (old name was External Authentication Methods) is now Generally Available.

Custom Controls is being deprecated on 30 Sept 2026.

Here's how to check your usage.

thedxt.ca/2026/03/micr...

#Entra #MFA #M365 #Microsoft #Microsoft365 #ConditionalAccess

Palo Alto Change Master Key with HA (Active/Passive) When a Palo Alto Networks firewall is configured with a unique master key, you need to change the master key before it expires, as when the master key expires, the firewall will reboot into maintenanc...

🔥🧱 Once you've configured a Master Key on a Palo Alto firewall it's very important to change it before it expires.

thedxt.ca/2026/03/palo...

#panos #PaloAlto #PaloAltoNetworks #Firewall #security #HA #Encryption

Thanks @omnissacommunity.bsky.social for the Tech Insiders Swag!! Proud to be a Tech Insider.

#Omnissa #OmnissaTechInsiders #TechInsider #community

Deploy Sophos Firewall on VMware vCenter A virtual SFOS (Sophos Firewall Operating System) can run on many hypervisors, including VMware. In this post, I will show you step by step how to deploy a virtual SFOS on VMware vCenter. The Process ...

🆕 Here's how to deploy a Sophos firewall on VMware vCenter

thedxt.ca/2026/03/depl...

#VMware #vCenter #vExpert #Sophos #Firewall #Networking #SFOS

Sophos Firewall Initial Setup Before you can start using a Sophos firewall, you must complete the initial setup. In this post, I will show you step by step, how to complete the initial setup of a virtual SFOS (Sophos Firewall Oper...

🧑‍💻 Here's how to complete the initial setup of a Sophos firewall.

thedxt.ca/2026/03/soph...

#Sophos #Firewall #Networking #SFOS #Setup

Sophos Firewall Interface Mapping on vSphere When you deploy a Sophos firewall on VMware vSphere, you start with 3 network interfaces PortA for LAN, PortB for WAN, and PortC is unassigned. In VMware vCenter, PortA is Network adapter 1, PortB is ...

🗺️ When you setup a Sophos VM firewall on vSphere and add new interfaces the mappings go out the window.

Here's how to figure out the mappings.

thedxt.ca/2026/03/soph...

#Sophos #Firewall #Interface #SFOS #Networking #VMware #vExpert

Sophos Firewall Remove GuestAP Interface By default, Sophos firewalls have a wireless network interface called GuestAP. Normally, this isn’t much of an issue, but if you don’t plan to use Sophos Wireless, it doesn’t make sense to keep the Gu...

🛜 Here's how to remove the GuestAP interface on a Sophos firewall.

thedxt.ca/2026/03/soph...

#Sophos #Firewall #GuestAP #SFOS

Palo Alto Configure Master Key with HA (Active/Passive) When you enter a private key or a password on a Palo Alto Networks firewall, it is encrypted with a master key. Out of the box, all Palo Alto firewalls use the same default master key, which used to b...

🆕 Here's how to configure a unique master key on a Palo Alto firewall in an Active/Passive HA configuration with the GUI or CLI.

thedxt.ca/2026/03/palo...

#panos #PaloAlto #PaloAltoNetworks #Firewall #security #HA #Encryption @paloaltonetworks.com

Palo Alto Config Backup It’s important to back up your Palo Alto Networks firewall configuration, as it is useful in the event of a system failure, configuration error, or other unforeseen circumstances. In this post, I will...

Here's how to backup your Palo Alto firewall config with the GUI or CLI

thedxt.ca/2026/03/palo...

#panos #PaloAlto #PaloAltoNetworks #Firewall #Backup @paloaltonetworks.com

I went with Gnome because it was the default and I remember liking it the last time I used it ages ago lol.

💯. It's been a while since I ran Linux on bare metal.

I decided to switch my oldest laptop from Windows 11 to Debian 13. When running Windows 11 it was barely usable as the system only has 8GB RAM. It is much more usable on Debian. #linux

Los Angeles Adventure | Daniel Goes Outside YouTube video by theDXT

I recently went to Los Angeles with a friend and I made a video all about it. Check it out!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq-k...

#Travel #LosAngeles #GTA5 #video

Excited and honored to announce that I made it into the VMware by Broadcom vExpert program for 2026!

Congrats to everyone that made it into the vExpert program! 🎉

#vExpert #VMware #Broadcom

ESX Regenerate Self-Signed Certificate During the installation of VMware ESX, you’re never prompted to set a hostname or domain name. As a result, ESX defaults to the hostname localhost and the domain localdomain. Due to this when ESXi gen...

Here's how you regenerate the ESX self-signed certificate and extra info about rhttpproxy the Envoy reverse proxy ESX uses.

thedxt.ca/2026/02/esx-...

#ESX #VMware #certificates #vExpert #Broadcom

📢 Announcing the 2026 Omnissa Tech Insiders Hello Omnissa Community members, We are incredibly excited to share the official list of Tech Insiders for 2026! This year’s group was selected through an in-depth application and review process, and ...

I'm excited to share that I'm an Omnissa Tech Insider for 2026! Congrats to everyone that also made it in!

community.omnissa.com/forums/topic...

@omnissacommunity.bsky.social

#Omnissa #WeAreOmnissa #OmnissaTechInsider

Veeam Backup & Replication 13 Windows Install Veeam Backup & Replication is a wonderful product that I’ve been using for years. I’ve used it many times to recovery from various situations, and it’s been a real lifesaver. VBR (Veeam Backup & Repli...

Here's how to install Veeam Backup & Replication 13 on Windows

thedxt.ca/2026/01/veea...

#Veeam #Windows #Backup #VBR

Enable Windows 10 Extended Security Updates On October 14, 2025, Windows 10 reached end of life and no longer receives updates. To keep getting updates, you must upgrade to Windows 11 or enroll in the Windows 10 ESU (Extended Security Updates) ...

Windows 10 has reached end of life. If you still need to use Windows 10. I made a blog post about how to enable Windows 10 ESU to keep getting updates.

Check it out! thedxt.ca/2026/01/enab...

#Windows #Microsoft #ESU #Windows10 #Updates #WindowsUpdates

slmgr.vbs slmgr.vbs is the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool, a Microsoft Visual Basic script that comes with Windows and is a core part of the Windows activation system. The full path is C:WindowsSyst...

I made a blog post about the commands you can use with slmgr.vbs

thedxt.ca/2026/01/slmg...

#Windows #slmgr

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#SorryNotSorry lol

CyberChef CyberChef is a web application with an abundance of tools, including decoding and encoding to and from various formats such as Base64, ROT13, XOR, and Hex. It is often referred to as the Cyber Swiss A...

CyberChef is a very cool web app made by GCHQ.

I originally found out about it because @mrr3b00t.bsky.social tweeted about it a long time ago.

I created a blog post about using CyberChef and self-hosting it with Docker.

Check it out. thedxt.ca/2026/01/cybe...

#Cyber #CyberChef #Docker

Install or Upgrade Duo Authentication for Windows Logon In this post, I will show you how to use my Duo Authentication for Windows Logon PowerShell scripts to check whether Duo Win Logon is installed, install Duo Win Logon, or upgrade Duo Win Logon. Previo...

🆕 I created a new blog post about how to upgrade and/or install Duo Win Logon using the EXE and PowerShell.

Check it out. thedxt.ca/2026/01/inst...

#Duo #PowerShell #WinLogon #Windows #Updates #Upgrade #MFA #Install @duosec.bsky.social

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Install Matrix At EUC World Amplify 2025, I gave a presentation titled “Transforming Chaos into Control: Mastering Windows App Deployments with Intune“. The presentation covered the ways I’ve been deploying applicat...

🆕 Introducing the Install Matrix an open source GitHub repo full of PowerShell scripts that help reduce duplicate work making it quick and easy to package apps and reducing overhead when updating them.

Check it out! thedxt.ca/2026/01/inst...

#PowerShell #Intune #EUC #GitHub #RMM

Duo Authentication Proxy Upgrade Duo Authentication Proxy is a very useful way to add MFA to LDAP and RADIUS. It is also a way to sync your users with Duo. You can install Duo Authentication Proxy on Windows or Linux. While older ver...

Duo has a root CA certificate expiring in February. Make sure your Duo Auth Proxy is 6.5.1 or newer.

I wrote a blog post about the upgrade process.

Check it out! thedxt.ca/2026/01/duo-...

#Duo #PowerShell #AuthProxy #Updates #Upgrade #MFA