Microsoft Cloud & Infrastructure 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.
Using PowerShell remote sessions
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in PowerShell
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4 minute read
Requirements Management computer/Priveleged Access Workstation 15-20 minutes of your time Management server and endpoints are Active Directory joined Starting out Before we can use Powershell to administer remote computers, we need to enable two …
Introduction to the Azure Well-Architected Framework
Tuesday, April 02, 2024 in Archive
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2 minute read
The 5 pillars of the Well-Architected Framework are: Pillar Target Reliability The ability to recover a system and/or contine to work Security Secure the environment in all spots Cost Optimization Maximize the value when minimizing the costs …
How to enable Remote Group Policy update
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 in PowerShell
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3 minute read
Group Policy update to multiple computers Sometimes you want to force a group policy update on multiple computers. Often when I am configuring Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts I need this option instead of logging into all hosts and executing the …
Cloud Adoption Framework Introduction (CAF)
Thursday, January 04, 2024 in Archive
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2 minute read
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud. In order to do this succesful, we can use the Cloud Adoption Framework which is described by Microsoft. The framework is a succesful order of processes and guidelines which companys can use to …
Dynamic group for access to Windows 365
Friday, December 01, 2023 in Microsoft Entra
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3 minute read
Requirements Azure AD/Entra ID/Microsoft Graph Powershell module https://learn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/powershell/module/azuread/?view=azureadps-2.0 10 minutes of your time What are Dynamic Groups? The Dynamic Groups feature of Microsoft Entra is a great …
Dynamic Distribution Groups in Microsoft 365
Saturday, October 21, 2023 in Microsoft 365
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4 minute read
Sometimes you want to have a distribution group with all your known mailboxes in it. For example an employees@justinverstijnen.nl or all@justinverstijnen.nl address to send a mail company wide. A normal distribution group is possible, but requires a …
Change Evaluation version to Standard/Datacenter version
Wednesday, May 03, 2023 in Windows Server
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2 minute read
When you install a fresh Windows Server installation from a .iso file, it will be installing the OS as a Evaluation version. When you want to activate the installation with a key you need to rebuild the OS and set the edition to Standard. Microsoft …
Bulk create Active Directory users with Powershell
Monday, March 20, 2023 in PowerShell
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2 minute read
When it comes to creating users for Active Directory, especially in new implementations, you want to minimize the time needed to create the accounts. This is possible by creating the AD users with Powershell. Requirements Minimal knowledge of …
AI-900 My learning journey
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 in Archive
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10 minute read
What is AI and what does Azure offer? AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. It is a term for software that can make predictions, calculations, and estimates. It can act “smart” in a way that looks like human thinking. Machine Learning (ML) is a type …
MS-100 + MS-101 Course notes
Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Archive
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20 minute read
These notes cover the main concepts I studied around the MS-100 and MS-101 era of Microsoft 365 administration. The course material focused heavily on identity, access, device management, information governance and security. Product names, portals …