That book would have been way back for Server 2016. It may not be available anymore. The author of said book is Brian Svidergol. He wrote the book for those who didn't have any Windows server background so they could become familiar with it. I would go with the latest version of Server you can. The Server 2016 is now 8 years old.

It seems like the only thing you need to watch out for is the PPKG file must be in the ROOT of the USB drive. It is not going to work if the file is inside any folder structure.

Yes - core Microsoft courses like MS-900 are on our dev plan for refresh. No dates to announce yet, but we are very close to finalizing our build plan for Q4 and all of 2025.

Yes - I think this course would still be very valuable for you. And you have a document that clearly states the differences that you can go through after the course:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/new-features/new-features?view=exchserver-2019

Hello Victor!

There are many Microsoft Security Certifications now. You can start with this main site:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/browse/

Notice if we use the filter options on the left and choose Security under Subject and Certification under Credential Type - we get the following five results:

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Notice that there is one Fundamentals level cert and four Associate level.

As far as I know - having the output "clipped to a csv" would require some custom scripting. But as far as listing your AD users with PowerShell - here is a great article that covers both the GUI methods as well as the PowerShell:

https://petri.com/list-active-directory-users/

@Robert-Neal Did you check on that GPO. Is it a pre-requisite? Most of our computers are listed as "Microsoft Entra registered" and I don't know if we need to switch them to hybrid join first so the GPO isn't needed, or if we need both hybrid and on-premises GPO. Everyone will have to come back to work.

I know I can add them manually with the Company Portal but we are trying to automate this.

Thanks @wes-bryan I am also trying to follow your videos on how to use Intune. I also want to add that based on the information provided, since the certificate is not an intermediate. Microsoft Intune policy might not be the right way to go. I'm trying to install a 3rd party public certificate for windows not to question this app every time they opened.

Thanks @Anthony-Sequeira-0!

Just trying to be a good community member :)

You are very welcome @Andrew-Despres, reach out if you need additional support!

If there is shared storage that clustering servers use. it could be that it didn't attach immediately when that server came back up and the VMs are on the shared storage, it might be why they disppeared from the rebooted server. "When I tried to import the cluster I got an error that I did not have permissions." You might have to be the Hyper-V administrator or cluster admin etc and not just a local administrator. I'm not sure how the servers are in cluster but also standalone servers. Sorry, you terminology may be confusing me. I would check error logs, that would give you more of a clue of when things locked up and possibly why it did.

@Alwatheq-Bellah-Zboun,
According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/azure-administrator/?practice-assessment-type=certification

The exam was last updated October 23, 2023. We shot this show around that last update.

Hey @Giovanni-Baldi, most of the documentation points to the Shell Launcher to replace the Windows Shell or explorer.exe with a Windows Desktop app or a Universal Windows App (UWP). Here is some additional information that may help:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/assigned-access/overview?tabs=intune

Let's see if I can point you in the right direction. See the following:

https://www.amazon.ca/Administering-Windows-Server-Infrastructure-premises/dp/1803239204
https://www.amazon.com/AZ-800-Administering-Windows-Server-Infrastructure/dp/013772926X/
https://www.amazon.com/AZ-800-Administering-Infrastructure-Practice-Questions/dp/B0CRRM6F5D/
https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Administrator-Complete-Practice-Questions/dp/1394155417/

Hey @Alwatheq-Bellah-Zboun, great question. I would recommend creating an Azure tenant (yourcompany.onmicrosoft.com), and use this as a test bed. If you create a tenant, Microsoft will give you $200 credit to use in Azure. If you are diligent and use lower cost compute, storage and networking as well as scrubbing the environment (delete all resources) on a daily basis you will be able get hands on practice with a lot of the Azure platform. Here is the link for your reference: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

I may be on the wrong different version of powershell.

Hey @Dwayne-Coleman, my apologies for not seeing this yesterday. Like Andrew has mentioned, in the bottom left-hand corner of ITPro Dashboard you will see a "Chat" bubble icon which can be used to contact our Support team:

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@Robert-Jackson,
My apologies that this has slid by our eyes on this post.
So to answer your question #1. I don't know. The reason is that I've never known any group that I've worked with or otherwise to continue to use the "onmicrosoft.com" past the initial setup and configuration. Most that I've dealt with in the past, getting the email to be seamless handover was key and fundamental instead of waiting. So I'm not sure whether it will work. I'm fairly certain that if it does, rest assured you'll probably get a notification of something like...if you proceed...either you'll see this can be changed later or that is permanent and non-reversible before clicking next.

So on Question #2, It wouldn't affect if people are using the onmicrosoft.com already to access sharepoint or email. If they're not, and currently using your regular domain name, then yes, it could effect them. I do not have any experience like I said of not changing the domain name and go through more setup as the default domain.

@Robert-Moore glad to hear you got it fixed!