Interested in the Kieri Compliance Documentation?

Kieri Solutions offers a licensable set of 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, and CMMC compliance templates called the Kieri Compliance Documentation (KCD). This is a holistic and user-friendly cybersecurity program which is designed for small and medium networks (less than 1000 users). Check our main KCD page for FAQ, business justifications, customer testimonials, price, and more! The …Read More…

How to fix Outlook missing Friday January 13 2023

1/13/2023 I am hearing that Microsoft Defender ate everyone’s Outlook shortcut this morning if they had enhanced security enabled (Attack Surface Reduction rules in Microsoft 365 / Intune). To quickly resolve, re-create the shortcut from the original Outlook.exe file To do this: 1. Open Windows Explorer 2. In the search bar, search for “Outlook.exe” 3. …Read More…

NIST SP 800-171 DoD Self Assessment Services

Kieri Solutions LLC has included the NIST SP 800-171 DoD Assessment methodology in our compliance programs since the DCMA started publishing it in early 2020. The just-published DFARS Interim Rule requires self-assessments to be submitted to the DoD as a pre-requisite for contract award. For full details and links to sources, please see this article …Read More…

vSphere Health detected new issues in your environment 6.7

Symptom:  You start seeing the alarm “vSphere Health detected new issues in your environment” and it won’t go away. I wrote about this alarm with one cause: Memory Exhaustion with a Tiny deployment in my other blog. If you navigate to your vCenter appliance website (https://vcenter.company.com:5480) and see memory warnings, check the fix in that …Read More…

vCenter health warning about external Platform Services Controller

I’m starting to see vSphere health warnings complaining about the “Depreciation of the external Platform Services Controller deployment model” This is very confusing because my vCenter servers were built using the Embedded Platform Services Controller option.  Yet vSphere health is saying that there is a problem? Symptoms: vSphere health warning for external platform services controller …Read More…

Synology storage latency and disconnects on VMware

Symptoms Synology SA3400 SAN connected to  VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 using iSCSI This is a new install.  The issues have been occurring since you started using the Synology for VMware datastores Event: Device or filesystem with identifier x has entered the All Paths Down state.             Warning Event: Lost connectivity to storage device . Path vmhba64:C0:T1:L1 is …Read More…

Windows Stuck in Recovery Mode Datto driver signing

This is a solution by Greg Baharoff, the owner of MTBW Services Inc. in Mount Airy, Maryland. Symptom: During maintenance, the Windows Server became stuck in recovery mode. Symptom: The following “regular” solutions did not work, such as bootrec /rebuildBCD  , sfc /scannow , and dism.exe /cleanup-image. Symptom: Datto driver / agent was installed on …Read More…

Multi Factor (MFA) App Password Missing or Blank – Office 365

Symptoms for missing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) app password in O365: You enabled Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) on Office 365 (O365) portal or Microsoft 365 MFA works, and your user(s) are able to log on to the office.com website using it. You don’t see the “app password” listed anywhere, and the Account Settings view seems to …Read More…