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.
Solved - Microsoft 365 tenant dehydrated
Friday, September 20, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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3 minute read
What is “Tenant dehydrated”? Microsoft sometimes will dehydrate Microsoft 365 tenants where things will not often change to the tenant. This closes some parts of the tenant for changing, even if you have Global Administrator permissions. …
How to learn Azure - My learning resources
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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6 minute read
To give a quick overview of all the training resources I used throughout the years and give you different types and sorted the resources from beginning to end: Text based Video’s Labs and Applied Skills 1. Starting out (Video and text-based) …
Solved: August 2024 updates breaks GPO Item level targeting - user in group
Monday, September 09, 2024 in Windows Server
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3 minute read
If you are managing Windows Servers, Group Policies are a great way to distribute settings to your endpoints. However, a recent update of August 2024 in Windows Server 2022 and 2019 breaks user filtering in Group Policy (GPO) Item Level Targeting The …
Solved - Windows Store applications on FSLogix/Azure Virtual Desktop
Thursday, August 15, 2024 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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4 minute read
Requirements Around 15 minutes of your time An Azure Virtual Desktop or Remote Desktop Services environment with FSLogix Some basic knowledge about Windows, Azure and Active Directory Session host must have winget installed Default behaviour and why …
Migrate Group Policies to a new server or domain like a pro
Wednesday, August 07, 2024 in Windows Server
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3 minute read
Once in a while, we as IT administrators need to export and import our Group Policies of Windows Server to another server. Sometimes to copy a great policy you’ve built, or to migrate a customer to a new server. By default, the only option …
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 …
Getting started with PowerShell
Saturday, July 27, 2024 in PowerShell
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7 minute read
1: What is PowerShell? PowerShell is both a command-line shell and a scripting language. You can use it interactively by entering one command at a time, or you can combine multiple commands into scripts to automate larger tasks. Common use cases …
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 …