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...

Microsoft had announced the limited preview of Azure Shared disks. With these announcement it will be possible to migrate clustered environments running Windows Server to Azure. This capability is designed to support SQL Server, Scale-Out File servers, RDS User Profile Disk and SAP ASCS/SCS servers running on Windows. Also...

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...

When you want to migrate an older environment to Office 365 and OneDrive, you might miss the OneDrive GPO settings. Unfortunately Microsoft hasn’t release the download of the ADMX files. You will need to grab them manually from a recent Windows 10 machine, and import them in the right...

Today I noticed a new checkbox in the Azure Portal. Microsoft has released IPv6 in the Public preview for Azure VNets. Virtual machines will be equipped with a dual-stack IP connectivity. Meaning both will be available. With the ending of IPv4 addresses it makes IPv6 mandatory for everybody. From...

If you have a large on premise environment, you might want to automate the assignment of Office 365 licenses by using (dynamic) security groups in Azure AD. With this simple manual you should be able to setup automatic license assignment based on a security group....

By default everyone may create a new team in Microsoft Teams. As an organisation admin you might want to control this, or release it a some point. With this manual you should be able to lock down team creation to users that are member of a Azure AD Security...

So you want to clean up unused (shared) mailboxes in your Exchange (Online) environment. How to find out which mailboxes have been inactive for a long time? The answer is yet simple again, with a cool Power Shell script. First we will connect to Exchange Online...

Microsoft has announced SSD bursting capabilities. This means that Premium SSD disks can achieve higher peak loads than the maximum IOPS with a new maximum of 3500 IOPS and a bandwidth up to 170 MiB/s. Together with this announcement Microsoft also announced new disk sizes (4, 8 & 16...

Office 365 Groups are easy to create. However, changing the primary domain name when creating the group might not be that easy from the GUI. However, with Power Shell you can change this easily. First we will need to open a Power Shell Window, and connect with Exchange Online....

With the move to the cloud there might be a time where you would like to remove the Active Directory link (AD Connect) and go for a cloud only strategy. With a few simple steps you can disconnect the AD connect sync from Azure AD. When you look in...

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...

When you create a new Office 365 tenant, all user mailboxes will have the default timezone and language. In my case, I work in the Netherlands, the preference for most companies is to set the Time zone to Central European Time (GMT +1) and the language of the users...

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....

With the Azure AD Premium P2 license you are entitled for Azure AD Identity Protection. You will get the option in Conditional Access to assign risk level based options to your policies. Azure AD Identity Protection can detect six different types of suspicious sign-in activities with 3 different levels...

When you’re migrating from one Exchange environment to another, or from on-premise to Exchange online without using the hybrid setup, the most forgotten part is the migration of the users x500 address. The reason why this is so important is because Exchange uses this to deliver local emails instead...

Today I noticed that the Azure Portal had a new appearance. By default the menu from the left is now hidden, giving you a cleaner view of all the blades, and as well on your dashboards. But what I really like, is the Auto Refresh button on the dashboard....