Category: Azure

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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Top 10 actions to secure your environment

Hi, Microsoft has a blog series about securing our environment. The first one came in December 2018. For now there is 8 parts released, hopefully part 9 is coming soon. When almost all functions are out in the open these…

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Office 365 Group and alias email-address.

If You want to archive this You have to use Powershell. Connect to Exchange Online Powershell and use the command below:

Happy Powershelling,

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Getting started with Windows Autopilot

Here is a small guide, on how to get started with Windows Autopilot. First thing that you need to make sure, is that you have the following prerequisites: Devices must be registered to the organization Devices have to be pre-installed…

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Get a Msolusers with License details to seperate CSV-files.

Hi again, Today I found a script export users and licenses to csv-file. This one worked out nicely 🙂 http://sikkepitje.blogspot.fi/2016/10/get-msoluserlicense.html

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Script that assigns Office 365 licenses based on Group membership.

Hi, Again Johan the author at 365lab.net wrote a nice script. It will change user license based on AD Group Membership.

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Migrate from Cloud identities to Azure AD Connect.

Hi, Customer has working tenant with data inside and you need to convert it from Cloud-Only to Synced. It can be done with the following choices: UPN-matcing https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3164442/how-to-use-upn-matching-for-identity-synchronization-in-office-365,-azure,-or-intune SMTP-matching http://www.ivchenko.pro/Blog/Post/23/Merging-on-premises-and-Office-365-users HARD-matching https://dirteam.com/dave/2014/08/15/fixing-office-365-dirsync-account-matching-issues/ Or by using little bit more effort and…

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Java and Shibboleth authentication with Azure REST API and ADFS.

The last blog entry was about setting up Onpremise AD with Office 365 and ADFS. So now to the instresting part. I’m going a little bit awol with this, as I’m not a coder. First about Azure authentication. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-api/app-service-api-whats-changed#authentication And specially…

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Enable or Disable Trace Logging in Dirsync and Azure AD Connect.

 The following page has all is needed. Steps to Enable Debug Tracing for Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant Steps to Disable Debug Tracing for Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18103.microsoft-online-services-sign-in-assistant-how-to-enable-debug-tracing.aspx

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Create UserPrincipalName attribute filter in AAD Connect.

In AAD Connect it’s possible to sync only users with specific UserPrincipalName. And here is how to do it. Open Synchronization Rules Editor Under Rule Types click on Outbound. Find the rule named Out to AAD – User Join. Click…

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