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.
Disable Active Directory synchronization in Microsoft Entra ID (company-wide)
Monday, September 23, 2024 in Microsoft Entra
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4 minute read
The process described The correct way to disable Active Directory synchronization with Microsoft Entra ID is to follow the steps in the Microsoft article on how to uninstall Microsoft Entra Connect Sync. We will disable the Synchronization on the …
Configure Location redirection in Azure Virtual Desktop
Monday, September 23, 2024 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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5 minute read
Location redirection in Azure Virtual Desktop When users connect to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), applications inside the remote session normally see the location of the Azure datacenter instead of the user’s actual physical location. This can become …
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 Archive
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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 …
How to repair faulty Windows in 5 steps
Saturday, August 17, 2024 in Windows Server
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6 minute read
Windows and Windows Server installations can in some rare cases become unstable after failed updates, corrupted system files, missed backups disk issues or unexpected shutdowns. In my experience, Windows Client systems are less stable than Windows …
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 …