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.
Everything you need to know about Azure Bastion
Azure Bastion is a great tool in Azure to ensure your virtual machines are accessible in a fast, safe and easy way. This is cool if you want to embrace Zero Trust into your servers management layer and so a secure way to access your servers...
I tried running Active Directory DNS on Azure Private DNS
In Azure we can configure private DNS zones for local domains. We can use this to resolve our resources in our virtual network by name instead of IP addresses, which can be helpful creating failover and redundancy. These could all help to achieve a higher availability...
Disable AD synchronization for a single user in Microsoft Entra ID
This guide describes how to disable Active Directory synchronization for a single user by transferring the user's Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra ID. This allows you to manage individual users from the cloud while keeping Entra Connect Sync enabled for the rest of your organization.
Upload multiple Github repositories into a single Azure Static Web App
In the past few weeks, I have been busy on scaling up my tools and the backend hosting of the tools. For the last year, I used multiple Static Web Apps on Azure for this, but this took a lot of time administering and creating them....
Setup a Public Image storage with Azure Blob
If you need a simple place to host images for a website or app, Azure Blob Storage can work really well. You can make the images readable by anyone on your Azure cloud. The website you are now visiting is also using Azure Blob Storage for...
Remove Microsoft Print to PDF and OneNote printers script
In this guide, I will show you how to delete the printers using a PowerShell script. This is compatible with Microsoft Intune and Group Policy and can be used on physical devices, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365.
Automatically start Windows App at startup
In some cases we want to automatically start the Windows App for connections to AVD and Windows 365 at startup. We can achieve this through different ways which I will describe in this post.
Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with PowerShell
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a built-in antivirus and security solution that helps protect your Windows devices. Because we want as less overhead as possible at certain moments, I though of using Defender with PowerShell. Using PowerShell, you can manage Defender by checking its status, running...
Azure Virtual Desktop FSLogix and Native Kerberos authentication
On this page I will describe how I built an environment with a pooled Azure Virtual Desktop hostpool with FSLogix and using the Entra Kerberos option for authentication. This new authentication option eliminates the unsafe need of storing the storage key in hosts' registry like we...
FSLogix and maximum Azure Files security
When using Azure Files and Windows 11 as operating system for Azure Virtual Desktop, we can leverage the highest SMB encryption/security available at the moment, which is AES-256. While we can change this pretty easily, the connection to the storage account will not work anymore by...