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.
Set up a Site-to-Site VPN between Azure and UniFi
Configure and test a route-based Site-to-Site VPN between Microsoft Azure and a UniFi gateway using IPsec and IKEv2.
Azure Compute Gallery and (AVD) VM images
Azure Compute Gallery is a great service in Azure to store, capture and maintain your VM images. This post explains how to work through these steps and how this works.
Solved - ADSync service stopped (Entra Connect Sync)
This blog post helps you to make the ADSync service more stable by utilizing a script that checks the service regularly and starting it when needed.
Customize Office apps installation for Azure Virtual Desktop
When deploying Microsoft Office apps to (pooled) Virtual Desktops, we mostly need to do some optimizations to the installation. We want to optimize performance on pooled and virtual machines, or maybe we want to enable shared computer activation because multiple users need the apps. In this...
Remove Roaming Profile folders with PowerShell (force)
This guide uses and describes a PowerShell script that removes a roaming profile folder by taking ownership, fixing permissions and attributes, and using a robocopy fallback if delete fails due to several possible reasons.
Clean files on a schedule with Powershell script
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...
Automatic Azure Boot diagnostics monitoring with Azure Policy
In Azure, we can configure Boot diagnostics to view the status of a virtual machine and connect to its serial console. However, this must be configured manually. The good part is that we can automate this process with Azure Policy. In this post I will explain...
How to completely hide language bar/selector Windows 11
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...
Wordpress on Azure
Wordpress. Its maybe the best and easiest way to maintain a website. This can be run on any server. In Azure, we also have great and serverless possibilities to run Wordpress. In this guide I will show you how to do this, how to enhance the...
New: Azure Service Groups
A new feature in Microsoft Azure rised up on the Microsoft pages; Service Groups. In this guide, we will dive a bit deeper into Service Groups and what we can do with them in practice. At the time of writing, this feature is in public preview...