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Used a TZ670 as the root to onboard a new NSa2800 a couple of months ago. I did the service transfer immediately rather than allow the longer period. Just come to factory erase my first 7th gen. and you need a maintenance key to access the recovery page! I can’t get that because the firewall is no longer in the console.

Tech Support can’t issue the maintenance key because it’s been deleted. They say to register the device again to get the key. MySonicwall says no - the serial was used in an upgrade so can’t be registered. And round and round we go with Tech Support.

I’ve asked if I remove the storage card from the bottom and destroy that will it have removed everything…can’t answer it.

Why so difficult!

Wondering if anyone has experienced this…on really hot days like we’re having now in UK the back doors creak like something from a horror movie. It’s more obvious and louder from the drivers side. I’ve sprayed some lithium grease on the check straps as they looked to be the cause (slight scratching suggesting some friction). The noise has change from a screech to move of a grind.

Is it a common problem? Is it a concern other than embarrassingly noisy.

We’re using Connect, not sure if I’m missing it, but Acrobat and Acrobat Reader seem fairly well covered for Patches…but I can’t see a 64bit package for the main initial application install.

I’ve built a “New Build” nested package to install the all latest versions of our software one after another. But can’t see a ready-to-go package for Reader (64bit).

I can have a go at extracting the MSIs from the EXE installer and build our own…but obviously a professional may do a better job 🤣

We’re taking our HQ building offline at the end of the week for a full switch infrastructure refresh - so all users will be remotely working.

In readiness this evening we tested that users would still be able to sign-in to Office365 and all cloud services inc. those with SSO to Entra. To simulate our HQ building being offline we took down both DCs at this site, leaving our Azure VM DC up and a DC at our branch office location up.

Unfortunately things didn’t go as expected…users couldn’t pass-through authenticate.

We’ve got an Entra Connect with PTA instance in Azure (active), and a second instance at our HQ in staging mode. The only time we could get PTA to work was when we also switched OFF the Entra Connect instance at our HQ…just leaving the Azure DC and Azure Entra Connect.

Entra wants multiple Entra Connect and PTA agents - but it seems like they become a problem if they are up with no local DCs.

Any ideas? Experience of Entra Connect in a failure scenario? Should it be seamless?
I’m wondering if maybe a DNS configuration issue on the HQ Entra Connect instance - does it need the DNS address of the non-HQ DCs?

So…we’ve had the same Power Platform developer in post for a very long time, and they’ve just retired. Most of their work was done in a dedicated account for Power Apps, Power Automate, etc. so when they left it just carried on. However early stuff was in their own account - which obviously then broke when their account was off boarded…which gave the new hire some tasks for their first couple of weeks 🤣

But with my Cyber Security hat on the “shared” account for all Power Apps, connectors, flows, etc. also has me worried…shared creds = bad.

So I’m wondering what is the done thing in Power Platform world so Apps don’t break if the developer account is disabled/deleted/password changed. But also better security than just a shared account logged in via their In Private browser mode.

Also interested if the same applies for PowerBI and the account which owns the refreshes of the semantic models?