Microsoft Cloud & Infrastructure Blog
This is my blog section. In my blog posts at this website I will dive into Microsoft Cloud solutions, basic Infrastructure and some other guides and topics. Here all new blog posts will be showed categorized in years with my newest post up top.
From the left, you can find all my post categories ordered in folders which can be expanded. On the right you can find the various tags and categories and on any blog page you can find the Table of Contents.
Manage your Windows VMs in Azure with Windows Admin Center
This guide explains how to enable and use Windows Admin Center in Microsoft Azure to manage several Windows Server VMs by installing the extension and connecting using a webbased interface.
The art of Dynamic Groups in Microsoft Entra
Dynamic Groups are really great for automating certain things. They are basically like groups like we know them for several years but they always required some sort of manual action or assignment. Dynamic Groups will help us eliminating this. I will give some examples how I...
Setup a GitHub Pages Blog
In this post, I will dive deeper in to how to setup a blog page on GitHub Pages, with as primary example this website you are now visiting. Also I will dive deeper on how I make posts and how general maintenance is being done.
Entra ID Authentication on Azure Windows VM
This guide explains how to join an Azure virtual machine to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Please note that this process has several prerequisites that must be met before configuration which are described in the guide itself.
Session Shadowing with Entra ID on Azure Virtual Desktop
In this post, I will be showing how to use Session Shadowing with Azure Virtual Desktop using Microsoft Entra ID only (for example, in the new Kerberos cloud setup). Shadowing is an option we had in the past with Remote Desktop Services, and before that, Terminal...
Automatically accept SSO prompt on Windows
In this post, I will show you how to automatically accept the SSO prompt on managed Windows 11 devices using Microsoft Intune, Group Policy or directly through the Windows Registry.
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a separate Defender solution which can be used to defend and monitor some of your external attack surfaces like websites, servers, SSL certificates and domains. All of this is achieved through a single admin panel in your Azure...
Cross-Tenant Message Recall in Exchange Online
We have all been there. A email is sent and you forgot to add the attachment or the wrong recipient. Exchange Online already has the feature recall messages inside your own tenant but now the cross tenant recall feature is announced, meaning we can recall messages...
Getting started with Terraform
In this guide, I show the path from install to deployment: I install Terraform, I prepare my Azure login using Azure CLI, and then I run a “single server” Terraform setup so you can see the process end-to-end.
Configuring Intune Enrollment DNS records: Nonsense or required?
Learn what Intune enrollment CNAME records do, when they are required, and when you can safely skip them.