In a new Exchange (Online) environment you might want to change the default calendar sharing permissions for all users. By default the sharing permissions for the entire organization are set to “Can view when I’m busy”. Some companies have a different wish on the default calendar settings of their...

A commonly heart end-user frustration with Auto-mapped shared mailboxes is that Send emails from the shared mailbox end up in the send items of the user it self. In the past you would need to set a registry key on the client computer to get this resolved. But with...

I recently run into a case where I needed to update statistics of an Azure SQL Database because of poor performance and deadlocks. Preventing disruptions is key, so it is important to do something about it. With a simple script we can update the statistics easaly. Why should I...

Last few weeks I’ve been struggling with an very difficult Office 365 / Exchange Online case, that got escalated to multiple Microsoft departments to be fixed. I already found one part of the solution, but Microsoft found the second part. Today I would like to take you through all...

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...

Windows Virtual Desktop is the new Azure desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. With simplefied management, multisession Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 using FSLogix in the background. With this cloud managed VDI environment, you can build, deploy and scale your virtual desktops and apps in...

Today I was browsing the Azure Management portal and discovered that Microsoft Azure released a new virtual machine series based on the AMD EPYC 7452V processors that can achieve a boosted 3.35Ghz. With these new AMD processers there are 4 new series available in Azure: Dasv3-series, Dav3-series, Easv3 and...

You want to move your mailboxes from Exchange on-premise to Office 365, and you want to give you users a smooth transition experience, then you will definitely need to implement the following to automatically create and configure a new Outlook profile on all Windows devices. ZeroConfigExchange (ZCE) Within Outlook...

With an increased security and privacy in mind Microsoft has been working on private links to Azure resources. Azure Private Link is a secure way to consume Azure Services like Azure SQL and Azure Storage using a private connection in your own VNet. This will replace the need for...

With Azure Conditional access you get more control over your data, get better security and visibility! To use this feature you will need to buy and assign Azure AD Premium or EM+S E3/E5 licenses to your users. This manual can be used to enforce the use of the Outlook...

If you deployed Intune to your mobile devices, you want to enforce the use of the Outlook app on the mobile device. We want to make the end user experience as smooth as possible and preconfigure Outlook for the. How can we prepare the Outlook app with your company...

With the transition to Azure AD, you might want to connect your AAD joined devices to the traditional file server as explained in this article: Go Azure AD Joined with on-prem DC and fileserver The next step is to map some network drives with Intune! Step 1: The first...

Microsoft has announced the availability of the new Azure data-centers in Switzerland. With 2 data-centers in Switzerland, Zurich and Geneva, Azure has created a full region (West and North) Microsoft worked together with several Swiss companies as early adopters to improve cloud adoption in Switzerland. As this region is...

In this manual I will explain step by step how to migrate your users from their personal drive to OneDrive using bulk migration in SharePoint Migration tool. This includes preparing the users OneDrive, granting permissions, and setup SharePoint Migration tool. Prerequisites Before we begin, we will need a migration...

Last few weeks I’ve been busy with migrating file servers to SharePoint and OneDrive. For this I’ve used the SharePoint Migration tool from Microsoft. Download: LinkWith just a few easy steps you are able to migrate your data to SharePoint or OneDrive. In this manual we will focus on...

For very high demanding workloads, storage wise, Azure has released Ultra Disk performance tier for production use. I’ve already written about it in a previous post ( Slow IOPS in Azure VM’s? not anymore!) But now is the time to take a deeper look. Which disk types do we...

When moving your applications to the cloud, it makes sense to start using Azure Services to get the best service, highest availability (SLA) and worry free maintenance provided by Azure. The next step is to use Azure AD identities with Azure SQL Database. Within a few steps you will...

This simple manual has been created to create an user in Azure SQL and assign appropriate permissions. First connect to your SQL server. Either use and AAD admin account or the SQL Admin account. Once connected, open a New Query window and run the following command on the Master...

Azure Application Gateway is an advance type of load-balancer. Where an Azure Load-balancer routes traffic on the transport layer (OSI Layer 4 | TCP + UDP) the Application Gateway is a way more advanced load-balancer. It can route based on URL as well on path’s. On top of that...

Last week I came across another post about Azure Heatmap. Every time when I need to find out what’s new on a specific feature in Azure, I will use Azure Heatmap. Awesome tool, I would recommend it to everybody! Also, check out the new region lookup function to find...