Microsoft - Pablo Legorreta - Cloud & Virtualization Expert

How to Pre-Stage CAU VCO for Failover Clusters

By Pablo Legorreta Active Directory, Microsoft, Uncategorized

In enterprise environments leveraging Windows Server Failover Clustering, the Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) clustered role automates patching and maintenance of clustered workloads. A common provisioning issue arises when the CAU role…

Sign User Out of O365

By Pablo Legorreta Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365, PowerShell, Scripting1 Comment

In situations involving compromised user accounts simply disabling an account is often not sufficient to mitigate the threat especially if the account is actively being using to send SPAM/Phishing email or to download data.

OneDrive in VMWare Horizon

By Pablo Legorreta FSLogix, Horizon, Office 365, Optimizations, VMWare

As part of working within Horizon environments alongside with AppVolumes and FSLogix there are some lessons that I have learned working with these technologies. This blog post is intended to provide some general settings for making these technologies work in tandem and to improve the user experience.

AntiVirus Best Practices for FSLogix Profiles

By Pablo Legorreta Antivirus, FSLogix, Optimizations

Documented list of Antivirus exclusions needed in order for FSLogix Profiles to work optimally.

Exporting & Migrating GPOs with PowerShell

By Pablo Legorreta Active Directory, PowerShell, Scripting

In more than one project, I have run across the desire to export GPOs that I have created and re-import them. While this can be easily accomplished by customers who have access to AGPM by following MSFT's Guide, this is not always the case. The following is an alternative way that will work with any environment as it is PowerShell based.

O365 Recursive Folder and Sub Folder Permissions

By Pablo Legorreta Exchange, Office 365, PowerShell, Scripting

If you have a public folder that you want to apply permissions in Office 365, you might have noticed that the web console can be slow if you have a long list of folders and sometimes the web console will time out and result in inconsistent permissions applied to sub folders. A much better method is to apply permissions to it using the Exchange Management Shell, its pretty easy and works with 365 and hosted Exchange.