Blog
This is my blog section. Here all new blog posts will be showed in reverse-chronological order. Just a fancy way to say newest-top.
At the left, you can view the categories, and on the right you can find the tags and Table of contents.
Optimize Windows 11 for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
Sunday, August 04, 2024 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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4 minute read
Introduction to the Group Policy template Assuming you run your Azure Virtual Desktop environment by using the good old Active Directory (AD DS), you can manage the hosts with Group Policy. To help you optimizing the experience on Windows 11, I have …
Introduction to Azure roles and permissions (RBAC/IAM)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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8 minute read
When managing a Microsoft Azure environment, permissions and roles with RBAC is one of the basic ways to improve your security. At one hand, you want to have the permissions to do basic tasks but at the other hand you want to restrict an user to be …
Get Windows Product Key with PowerShell
Sunday, July 28, 2024 in PowerShell
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less than a minute
We simply can do this with one command in PowerShell: POWERSHELL (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform").BackupProductKeyDefault Please note that I am not encouraging software …
Network security in Azure with NSG and ASG
Friday, July 26, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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6 minute read
What does an Network Security Group (NSG) do? A network Security Group is a layer 4 network security layer in Azure to filter incoming and outgoing traffic which you can apply to: A single VM, you assign it to the NIC (Network Interface Card) A …
Create a Catch all mailbox in Exchange Online
Thursday, July 11, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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7 minute read
I also created a full customizable PowerShell script for this task which you can find here: Download script from GitHub This way you can skip the guide for a faster solution. Otherwise, follow the steps below to do everything by hand and get a better …
Rename name-tags to resource groups and resources
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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2 minute read
When it comes to naming your Azure Resource Groups and resources, most of them are not renameable. This due to limitations on the platform and maybe some underlying technical limitations. However, it is possible to assign a renameable tag to a …
Microsoft 365 create a shared mailbox with same alias
Thursday, June 06, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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3 minute read
The problem of multiple shared mailboxes with same alias Let’s say, we have a Microsoft 365 tenant with 3 domains; domain1.com domain2.com domain3.com When you already have a mailbox called “info@domain1.com” you are unable to …
Networking Implementation Runbook
Sunday, June 02, 2024 in Networking
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5 minute read
When do you use this implementation guide? With network implementations, I mean the implementation, migration, or replacement of one or more of the following components: DHCP server, IP address ranges, and/or VLANs Firewall Modem / internet-facing …
Migrate data to SharePoint/OneDrive with SPMT
Monday, May 20, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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2 minute read
At the moment, SharePoint is a better option to store your files because it has the following benefits over a traditional SMB share: Single permissions system (No SMB/NTFS permissions) High available by default No server infrastructure needed Users …
Windows Server Backup Retention
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Windows Server
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2 minute read
For more information about the wbadmin tool, see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wbadmin The Script With this small script based on wbadmin we can remove old backups while keeping the last 30 items …