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.
Clean files on a schedule with Powershell script
Thursday, September 18, 2025 in PowerShell
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7 minute read
Sometimes in IT, we have software or solutions that need to to save temporary files in your filesystem. Let’s say, a feed with logs or CSV files that are saved, logs or back-ups like the Bartender software. The software itself doesn’t …
Automatic Azure Boot diagnostics monitoring with Azure Policy
Thursday, September 11, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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8 minute read
In short, Azure Policy is a compliance/governance tool in Azure with capabilities for automatically pushing your resources to be compliant with your stated policy. This means if we configure Azure Policy to automatically configure boot diagnostics …
How to completely hide language bar/selector Windows 11
Tuesday, September 09, 2025 in PowerShell
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3 minute read
One of the small things I experienced in one of the updates for Windows 11 (24H2) is that the language bar/selector get’s automatically visible on the Windows taskbar. In previous versions of Windows, this was only available when using multiple …
Wordpress on Azure
Thursday, September 04, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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13 minute read
Requirements An Azure subscription A public domain name to run the website on (not required, but really nice) Some basic knowledge about Azure Some basic knowledge about IP addresses, DNS and websites Around 45 minutes of your time What is Wordpress? …
New: Azure Service Groups
Monday, September 01, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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3 minute read
What are these new Service Groups in Azure? Service Groups are a parralel type of group to group resources and separate permissions to them. In this manner we can assign multiple resources of different resource groups and put them into a …
In-Place upgrade to Windows Server 2025 on Azure
Thursday, August 28, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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8 minute read
Once every 3 to 4 years you want to be on the last version of Windows Server because of new features and of course to have the latest security updates. These security updates are the most important these days. When having your server hosted on …
Match AD users using Entra Connect Sync and MSGraph
Monday, August 18, 2025 in Microsoft Entra
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4 minute read
The difference between soft and hard matching Most of the time the system itself will match the users automatically using soft-matching. Here the service will be matching users in both Entra ID and Active Directory by using known attributes like …
Joining storage account to Active Directory (AD DS)
Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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5 minute read
Requirements Around 30 minutes of your time An Azure subscription with the storage account An Active Directory (AD DS) to join the storage account with (on-premises/Azure) Basic knowledge of Active Directory and PowerShell Step 1: Prepare the Active …
Initial Installation script for Windows Azure VMs
Sunday, August 10, 2025 in PowerShell
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3 minute read
When deploying Windows VMs in Azure, we get the default settings. This means we get a 12-hour clock, standard UTC/Zulu timezone and such. For users like us in the Netherlands we want to change this but not by hand. For this purpose I built this …
Clean up old FSLogix profiles with Logic Apps
Thursday, August 07, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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9 minute read
I will give you a step-by-step guide to build this Logic App yourself. Make sure you have backups ofenabled on your storage account so when a file is deleted but you need it for some reason after some time, you can restore it from a monthly or yearly …