With GitHub Pages, we can host some free websites for personal use. This is really great as we mostly already use GitHub to store our code and assets for websites. The website you see now is also hosted on GitHub Pages. In this guide, I will explain some of the advantages of GitHub Pages, and how to get started by using the service. Let’s dive into it!
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When I first chose to use V6 or V7 machines with Azure Virtual Desktop, I ran into some boot controller errors about the boot controller not supporting SCSI images.
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MTA-STS is a standard for ensuring TLS is always used for email transmission. This increases security and data protection because emails cannot be read by a Man in the Middle. It works like this for inbound and outbound email to ensure security is applied to all of the messages processed by your emailing solution and domains. In this guide I will explain how it works. Because it is a domain specific configuration, it can work with any service and is not bound to for example Exchange Online. In this guide we use Azure to host our MTA-STS policy. I present you 2 different options for you to choose, and of course only one is needed. You can also choose to use another solution, its it supports HTTPS and hosting a single TXT file, it should work.
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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 did in my earlier AVD full Entra blog.
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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 default. In this guide I will show how I got this to work in combination with the newest Kerberos Authentication.
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In this post, we will be looking at the most popular different RDP Properties we can use in Azure Virtual Desktop. will be talking about local PC’s and remote PC’s alot, where the remote PC is of course the Azure Virtual Desktop host and the local PC is the device you can physically touch.
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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 experience and what steps are needed to build the solution. I will also tell more about the theoretical stuff to get a better understanding of what we are doing.
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RDP Multipath is a new protocol for Azure Virtual Desktop and ensures the user always has a good and stable connection. It improves the connection by connecting via the best path and reduces random disconnections between session hosts and users.
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When it comes to basic email security, we have 3 techniques that can enhance our email security and delivery by some basic initial configuration. Those are called SPF, DKIM and DMARC. This means, configure, monitor and almost never touch again.
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This page is an introduction to Networks. We don’t need to know everything about it, but often face it in our work. In this guide I will give you a basic understanding of networks, IP addresses, VLANs, Segmenting etcetera. Basically everything you need to understand the process, and hopefully even more than that.
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Microsoft Azure has a service called the ‘Static Web Apps" (SWA) which are simple but yet effective webpages. They can host HTML pages with included CSS and can link with Azure Functions for doing more advanced tasks for you. In this guide we will explore the possibilities of Static Web Apps in Azure.
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IPv6. We hear it a lot these days and it’s a very common network addressing protocol and the successor of the older IPv4, but will not necessarily take over IPv4 100% (yet). On this page I will describe the basics, some tips and the benefits.
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Active Directory Domain Controllers are assigned 5 different FSMO roles, which all have their own function. We can separate them over multiple servers to create more redundancy, but make sure to handle those all as servers. All roles neeed a 24/7 uptime for your environment to work properly. In this guide, I will give a brief explaination of the roles, what their function is and how to move them to different servers to enhance availability and redundancy.
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Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of 2 new security protocol when using Microsoft 365 and the service Exchange Online in particular. SMTP DANE and DNSSEC. What are these protocols, what is the added value and how can they help you secure your organization? Lets find out.
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When using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows (W365), we sometimes use the mobile apps for Android, MacOS or iOS. But those apps rely on filling in a Feed Discovery URL instead of simply a Email address and a password.
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