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6 Feb 2021

WordPress Speed Optimization with Custom FontAwesome Icon Font (Avada Theme)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-07-19T09:04:05-07:00Feb 6, 2021 - Saturday|Technology|

Read: 6 mins.If you care about optimizing your website's performance to improve its search engine ranking, one of the things to evaluate is the number or size of fonts in use. The Avada Theme used by this site is wonderful but also very bloated. I went to create a Custom Icon Font with just the images the site needs to speed up the time it takes to load this site. However, I unexpectedly ran into an issue of the icons disappearing from the Classic Editor (TinyMCE) toolbar. This post details the problem and the workaround I implemented.

20 Jan 2021

Taskbar Icon/Button Width Too Wide in Windows 10

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2021-09-09T23:10:03-07:00Jan 20, 2021 - Wednesday|Technology|

Read: 2 mins.I recently ran into an odd, visual behavior with the Windows 10 Taskbar where each application label was too wide and wasted valuable screen estate. Rather than showing just the first handful of characters of the application name and cutting off the rest, each button took up a wide portion of the taskbar. Here is how to fix or change the Taskbar buttons' minimum width back to default or to a desired length.

2 Oct 2020

Review: Linksys Velop Mesh Tri-Band Router (vs Eero Pro)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2022-02-25T18:01:32-08:00Oct 2, 2020 - Friday|Networking, Product Reviews, Reviews, Technology|

Read: 15 mins.The need for reliable and speedy WiFi throughout the entire home has become important in modern times as more and more devices connect wirelessly. Like many consumers, you very likely came across dead spots in your house where the WiFi signal was either weak or non-existent. Consumer "mesh" WiFi routers promise to solve this issue, and in this article we will explore what they are, and how the Linksys Velop AC router compared to the Amazon Eero Pro.

19 Aug 2020

Azure AD: Successful Logins From Unknown Users

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2022-12-27T15:40:06-08:00Aug 19, 2020 - Wednesday|Microsoft 365, Security, Technology|

Read: 3 mins.The Security Operations Center (SOC) noticed logins to Azure Active Directory (AAD) from yahoo.com and gmail.com email addresses and asked the IT Security team to investigate. At the time, we did not allow many B2B Guest credentials for those domains, but alarmingly, the accounts in question successfully authenticated even though they did not exist in our AAD tenant. Who were those people? Did we have a security breach? What did they access?

20 Jul 2020

PowerShell: Compare Two Objects/Arrays And Output Result in Custom Format

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-05-15T17:01:46-07:00Jul 20, 2020 - Monday|PowerShell, Technology|

Read: 4 mins.The Compare-Object cmdlet is a very useful tool to find differences between data sets. It can help with logging changes, acting only on specific sets of data, speeding up processing time, and reducing complexity. In this article, we will cover what the "SideIndicator" property means, how to pass through all Properties from the source data, create a custom property with evaluated information, and output only results that exist in both data sets.

1 May 2020

Active Directory: Group and Membership Changes – Windows Event IDs, Auditing, Splunk (Bonus: Security Events for Investigation, Audit)

By Michael Yuen @yuenx|2023-03-08T11:21:04-08:00May 1, 2020 - Friday|Security, Technology|

Read: 13 mins.How do you find out who made a change to an Active Directory or Builtin Local Group? Which users were added to or removed from a group? When was a group deleted? In this post, we look at Group and Membership change Event IDs, and explore how to use Splunk to find relevant information to aid in your investigations.