IT Pro Tuesday #292

Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!

In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “Microsoft vs Midnight Blizzard,” we explore insider threats within M365 with special guest Philip Galea, R&D Manager at Hornetsecurity. The focus is on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, shedding light on the nuances of insider threats and offering valuable insights on safeguarding against them.

We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.

Now on to this week’s list!

A Tutorial

Fiber Cable Maintenance walks you through the proper cleaning procedures that will keep your fiber cable connections working at peak performance. Appreciation for this one goes to -sirKris-, who offers the reminder, “Keep your equipment clean!” 

A Free Tool

Intunewin Build and Extract is a tool that allows you to either build a new Intune Win32 application or extract the content from one that already exists. The author has written detailed instructions in this blog post. Our thanks for the suggestion go to dcg1k.

Training Resource

Coursera is an online learning platform with courses from top universities and industry leaders. The catalog of options is designed to provide self-paced training options to suit all skill levels. esgeeks explains, “offers free and paid courses on a wide variety of topics, including technology.”

Humor

In the runup to April Fool’s Day, we thought we’d share this diabolical-yet-harmless prank, compliments of laguna314…

“[W]hen people set their desktop to family photos or pet photos etc., I make many copies of the photo, and change a minor detail … with paint or photoshop; something small but noticeable like adding a mustache. Then I’ll set the background to point to an album of all the copies of the picture. Have it change at like 3-minute intervals so that at some point throughout the day, their background will show the mustache for 3 minutes.

Takes time for them to notice; and when they do, by they time they can point it out to someone, it’s gone!”

A Tip

This nice shortcut was offered courtesy of bobmonkey07: 

Win+pause opens “system” so you’re right where you need [to be] for changing computer name/domain.

P.S. Bonus Free Tools

Bash Cheatsheet is a quick-reference guide that can help you get started with Linux bash shell scripting. Kindly suggested by Extradiscipline_644.

Looking Glass is an easy-to-deploy PHP option that allows you to get network information by executing commands on the router and then gathering the output for the user. thegreattriscuit explains, “[it’s] the project behind equinix’s LG.”