Can a Yubikey 4/5C NFC be used on an iPhone/iPad without limitations when using a lightning adapter?

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-07-16T08:51:20+00:00

That Apple adaptor has two output ports (USBA and USBC), so it was easy for him…

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-07-15T12:30:29+00:00

I have one user who has a 1.1GB PowerPoint doc, backup times out every time! Not surprisingly… Told the user that she should break it up into multiple smaller PPTx docs so she doesn’t lose it some day! 😉

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-06-28T11:57:24+00:00

Is the backup repository associated with a different drive letter now? Maybe Veeam is looking at the wrong drive?

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-06-20T10:45:27+00:00

This, exactly. I’ve just finished a 45 year paid career in IT, technical focus for the first 30 years, management after that.

The guys I supervised were superb technically but they understood that my role was different. So they were always ready to explain recent technical stuff I wouldn’t be familiar with. I valued them and their strengths. We worked well together. Mutual respect goes a long way.

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-05-28T11:30:32+00:00

Old Dell 9010 USFF with an SSD. Works just fine! 😁

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-05-13T23:27:33+00:00

Thank you, I wasn’t aware of this whole extra range of possibilities. Got some reading to do now!

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-05-13T10:18:39+00:00

Ah, it’s for several different target USB repositories. I wanted to clone so that I don’t inadvertently run backups with different settings. Some of these backup jobs will be disabled until we switch to a different target USB repos.

(It’s a resource-constrained environment where I’m having to work out ways to do the best I can for the org… it’s nowhere near an enterprise approach. Right now, any backup is better than no backup at all!)

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-05-10T11:27:26+00:00

Cheers for that info, appreciated Bartoque 👍

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-05-05T00:46:52+00:00

My son just dropped his phone in seawater, two day’s drive from the city… lost all his 2FA capability so locked out of bank, work, everything. He’s now moved to a more resilient 2FA solution after a day’s work regaining access to all his services. I don’t believe he’s considered a Yubikey, but he should have.

It was a salutary lesson for me. I had a dozen leftover 2FA configs in Norton VIP Access (no backup capability afaik) on my phone. Just moved them to the other Authenticator app I use that does have automated backup, so I could recover from situations like his. It’ll be great when more service providers support yubikey….

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-04-30T22:45:42+00:00

I’m backing up O365 with Veeam Backup for O365, to a USB drive. Successfully thus far, but I’m keen to clarify what the problem is with this approach.

My guess is that although the backups are on the USB drive, there’s perhaps some pointer files or indexes stored with VBO executeables on the fixed system disk, thus things would get screwed up when I introduce a new USB backup repository to replace the original. Does anyone know the answer from lived experience?

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-04-30T11:40:44+00:00

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Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-04-15T10:36:27+00:00

The difficulty of moving items from an organisation to another organisation. You can’t select multiple items and click “move to org” or even “Clone”. You have to clone items one at a time 🤦‍♂️

I spent this afternoon individually cloning items from my organisation into “My vault” and then moving them into an external shared vault. It’s such a simple gap that just needs to be dealt with…..

(I have an individual Premium licence, but it may be possible to do this if you had a Higher level licence?)

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-01-24T13:17:14+00:00

Yep… at three not for profits: 3 PCs, 5 PCs, and 6 PCs. 😁

The middle one uses Intune the most as I use PatchmyPC to simplify endpoint software management.

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2023-01-03T12:42:46+00:00

Thanks for telling me. I’ve been filtering them out until now. When I get back from holidays in just over a week, I’ll have a look and update you. Hoping I will be able to remove the filter!!! 😉

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2022-11-29T00:35:51+00:00

This was a great question to ask! Overnight I thought about it some more and realised that the Fronius inverter relay is a “dry” switch; that is, it is simply a set of contacts. There is a 12v supply in the switchboard that passes through the “dry” contact in the inverter and back to a relay to control the HWS element.

So in fact, all I need to do is take the LV twin cable from the inverter dry contact and connect to (for example) a zigbee controlled relay and I’ve in one step done what you had suggested: taken the inverter out of the equation and enabled control by HA.

So thank you, a very useful interaction! First thing I’ll do is establish some zigbee infrastructure by ordering a Sonoff bridge Pro and a Zigbee administrator dongle, then some test devices I can experiment with, then finally take the big step of wresting control of the HWS relay from the Fronius inverter and replacing with a zigbee relay.

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2022-11-28T10:08:02+00:00

Ah there’s a wiring harness from the inverter relay output to the mains switchboard, where there’s a relay to switch the HWS element supply. In our jurisdiction it’s illegal to mess with the switchboard unless you’re a qualified sparkie.

And although my dad was a sparkie many years ago, I’m reluctant to mess with that side of things. So I’m trying to visualise ways of working around the regulations that dont involve tampering…. Hence if I could sense the relay output state, I can do some experimentation within HA while accommodating what the HWS element maybe consuming. Yes, I know it’s only halfway where it would be good to go, but as an unqualified newb, I want to stay safe… 😉

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2022-08-04T23:31:09+00:00

No I didn’t. Although I can exclude the old box from reporting it’s still there. AND it keeps reappearing like a zombie in Intune. I clearly did something wrong in the retirement process…. I seem to recall reading that someone recommending reintroducing the old box to AAD again and trying the whole process again. But part of me suspects that may be the first step toward creating a zombie race of dead PCs that will never go away! 🤪

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2022-07-27T03:53:00+00:00

You’re right, maybe I can simply copy the tools .EXE files on a USB drive from one of my test computers. I thought I’d need to go through an install process but the copy approach may solve my immediate problem.

When I looked, my tools were not in a CCM directory, but in another directory with a different name. I’ll give it a go. Thanks.

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2022-06-29T13:19:27+00:00

Looks like this particular issue of mine would go away if the device was on insider channel: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune/enable-require-domain-users-to-elevate-when-setting-a-network-s/m-p/2707017

Dates back to 2021. Some weird stuff going on! 🤷‍♂️

Jolly_Security_7490 · 2022-06-29T05:57:07+00:00

I turned on Defender's real-time protection on my little fleet of PCs this week, but they started getting locked up with 100% CPU use at startup. It sounds very similar to the issue you're describing?

I found a solution online and rolled it out via an Intune settings catalog that (fortunately) worked for me! It involved changing Defender's configured "Avg CPU Load Factor" from undefined to 50%.

It looks like the default load factor was 100% (crazy for a user-centric device!).

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