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If you happen to have a redundant setup of a VPN gateway, which happens to be delivered as well with Azure Virtual WAN, you might encounter issues where you want to reset the VPN Gateway. One thing that is not clearly mentioned in the documentation, nor is it in...

Last July Microsoft announced the new Azure Boost in Preview. Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS, such as networking, storage, and host management, onto purpose-built hardware and software. By separating hypervisor and host OS functions from the...

A year ago Microsoft announced the Entra product family to gain more trust and achieve higher security in every digital experience and interaction. By making the protection of identities and access an primary goal, Microsoft envisions an new era for security. With this renaming Microsoft is showing their commitment...

Some web applications do not support single sign-on authentication. For these applications Microsoft has created an option to save the password in Azure AD. In this manual I am going to explain how to set it up. STEP 1: Create app From within the Azure Portal (https://portal.azure.com) go to...

In Exchange 2013 and 2016 after an upgrade you might get the following error after logging in. The URL with the error will look like this: owa/auth/errorFE.aspx?httpCode=500 Cause This issue occurs if the Exchange Server Open Authentication (OAuth) certificate is expired, not present, or not configured correctly....

Microsoft has officially released Windows 11. With this manual you should be able to update all your devices within your company to Windows 11!...

Microsoft has released multiple security updates in last Patch Tuesday. One off them fixes a high risk vulnerability (CVE-2021-38647) Also know as OMIGOD. This vulnerability can be used remotely, so exploitation is expected soon. This flaw doesn’t directly affect Windows at all, because it’s a bug in Microsoft’s open...

Today I had to renew my Azure Solutions Expert certification. This was a first time I had to do that. By going to your certification profile you can do a online exam with just 26 questions with numerous things that have been changed in the past year. I have...

In this manual I am going to explain how to install and setup a connection between on-premise Active Directory and Azure AD. Pre-requisites: Office 365 Tenant with an Office 365 Admin account Active Directory Server with AD Enterprise administrator permissions AD Connect tool, download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594 STEP 1: First...

Today I had the honors to do another workshop Ethical hacking together with Erik Loef. It is always good to share your knowledge, and help other people with their work, now and in the future. I hope that these students will embrace what they have learned, and that they...

You might have noticed that it’s quiet on 2azure.nl. On the 19th of November my wife got very ill, with unknown brain damage she was hospitalized in the Erasmus University Medical Center. But despite all efforts she passed away on the 6th of December 2019 in the age of...

There are situations where you would like to enforce an update of the Exchange Global Address list (GAL) in Office 365. With a few steps this can easily be done! Requirements: Exchange Online EXO V2 module, install using: Import-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement STEP 1: First we will need to make...

Microsoft had released all sessions and slides on a perfect overview. Did you mis anything? didn’t had the change to go? here is your change to get up to speed https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions...

If you missed the keynote from Microsoft Ignite, here is a 6 minute video to give you an update on the most important topics....

Most people are looking forward to Microsoft Ignite 2019 to hear about latest technologies from Microsoft. It is possible to follow Microsoft Ignite using a livestream....

I started this blog at the end of March this year to share my knowledge, share my passion about IT. And in just 6 months, I’ve published 65 posts in the past 26 weeks… which is over 2 posts a week, more than I anticipated to create… I found...

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...

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...

Frequently I get the question, how are we going to manage our legacy Azure IaaS servers? Should we deploy domain controllers? or should we setup a VPN connection with our on-premise environment? Before we can start answering these questions we will need to learn more about AD DS. Azure...