Category: Azure

Azure AD Connect family version 1.x deprecation On 31 August 2022.

Hi all, I just blogged about differences between AAD Connect and Cloud Sync Provisioning Agent. And today noticed on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/reference-connect-version-history that Microsoft will be deprecating the first family versions of Azure AD Connect On 31 August 2022 “You need to…

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ChaosDB vulnerability and Azure Blob storage.

Probably by now you all have heard about CosmoDB vulnerability thru Jupyter notebooks, right? If not here is a recap. From the security researchers at Wiz they found a hole from Jupyter-notebooks allowing a full access to CosmoDB databases. “Rather,…

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Exchange and hybrid identity

Hi again, Now to my all-time favorite topic, Exchange covered with identity and security. How many times have see the error above when running HCW as an Exchange admin, I bet many and we will get to this later on….

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AAD Connect compared to new Azure Cloud sync

*Update: “Automate provisioning users from Azure AD into on-premises applications Azure AD now supports provisioning into on-premises applications, and we have a preview that we’re excited for you to deploy and share your feedback. You must have an Azure AD…

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Identity is the new perimeter and why information protection matters.

Your identity, identification or credit card is important, don’t loose them and don’t take it lightly. Even if talking about social security number or just your email. Both can be hijacked and used for purposes you don’t want. How you…

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Using Azure File Shares with On-Prem ADDS Authentication and S2S VPN Tunnel

Nowadays, Azure Files supports identity based authentication over SMB through two kind of Domain Services. You can either use Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) or the old On-Prem Active Directory Domain Services that most of the environments already have….

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Azure Cognitive Services – Speech

Hi all, Last week I was doing something really different (not new because I already knew a little bit of Java and .net) I guess that my mind set is going like Microsoft future plans for certifications. Half hardcore architect…

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Connect to Cloud with or without MFA and replace user licenses with menu.

Made a powershell script to replace or add user licenses based on the same csv that were used for Exchange Hybrid migration. First You need a csv to be like this, but probably You have it if You did a…

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Azure Dynamic Groups and how to use Extended attribute.

I wondered how to automagically add users to an Azure AD group with after their mailboxes have been migrated to the Cloud thru an Exchange Hybrid (Classic or Modern) And I figured out this one. Users get always populated with…

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SQL Server Backup from inside Azure VM

You can backup SQL Server databases and instances running inside Azure VM using Azure Backup. The solution leverages the SQL native APIs to take backup of your SQL databases. When you specify the SQL Server VM that you want to…

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