Month: July 2019

Disable Windows Firewall on a virtual machine from the Azure Portal

When you accidentally locked your self out from a Virtual Machine in Azure, there is no console access to login and help your self back in to the system. In the last year I’ve seen a few cases where somebody accidentally locked himself out of a VM by wrongly...

Office 365 Set mailbox default language

When you do large migrations, it might be convenient to change the default mailbox language settings for all your end users. By default each user needs to set the default language and time zone at first login to OWA in Office 365. With the following PowerShell Script you should...

Autopilot with white glove deployment

Microsoft has released an updated autopilot version called white glove! With the traditional autopilot version there was one big disadvantage on delivering a laptop directly from the OEM to the end user, and that was the waiting time for the end user to complete the installation of all applications,...

Set up Office 365 ATP anti-phishing policies

We all know that phishing is going on all the time. But how to defend your organization against these criminals that want to get your login information! The answer is simple, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, or short: ATP. So lets get started and start implementing anti-phishing policies. First...

Office 365 Cloud app security

If you want to improve your security in Office 365 it is recommended to add the EM+S E3 or E5 security suits. This gives you more information about what is happening with your users, but you can configure alerting and actions as well. So if you have the EM+S...

How to setup Azure Lighthouse (Manual)

Microsoft released Lighthouse last weekend, and since this is a great feature, I wanted to implement it as soon as possible, but the Microsoft docs might be a bit confusing, so I wanted to simplify the manual, so here it is! We will be using PowerShell, as this makes...

New Azure service: Azure Lighthouse, Azure management for service providers

Last week Microsoft announced Azure Lighthouse. It is now possible to manage and administrate your customer tenants from your own management portal. How it works? watch the video below for more information. I have created a manual how to implement Azure Lighthouse in this post: https://www.2azure.nl/2019/07/18/how-to-setup-azure-lighthouse-manual/...

Azure Data Share in Preview

Microsoft has announced a new service: Azure Data Share. It is a new data service for sharing data across organizations. This can be used to easily share big files and data with external organisations instead of using FTP or other data sharing services. Read the Microsoft official announcement for...

Convert federated domain to managed domain

If you have a ADFS server for your user authentication in Office 365 / Azure AD, and you want to use Pass Through Authentication and/or password Hash Synchronization we will need to change a few things and run a few Powershell commands. So before we can change the domain...

AD Connect Force synchronization

If you have an AD Connect server, you sometimes require a faster sync than the default 30 minutes. This can be done very easily by entering one Powershell command. Open a Powershell window, and load the AD Connect Sync Powershell module: Import-Module ADSync Once imported, you have 2 options....

Security & Ethical Hacking hands-on labs

Today I have given a hands on lab with Erik Loef on security and ethical hacking. We had created 5 different labs for the 21 participants to learn them more about security. This way we allowed them to think as a hacker, find out weaknesses in the system, and...

Go Azure AD joined with on-prem DC and fileserver!

Wouldn’t be cool to migrate all your laptops and desktops to Azure AD, but still have your on-premise file server for the people that can’t say goodbye to their network drives? Now it is possible! Azure is supporting out of the box, Azure AD domain joined devices to connect...

Let’s go password less, because passwords are bad! Part 2

Last week we talked about why passwords are bad. Today we will continue with part 2, how to get the passwords gone, and we will zoom in on Windows Hello for Business! So what is Windows Hello? Windows Hello is a modern way of authenticating users on their laptop,...