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....

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...

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...

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,...

If you want to add a user to the local admin group on a Azure AD joined device, you will simply have to run the following command: net localgroup "administrators" /add AZUREAD\username credits: Mark Luiten...

Quite a statement, passwords are bad? Today I’d like to explain why you should work on better security by using other authentication methods than just 1 password. Why passwords are bad Password are problematic, very often you see that passwords fall in the hands of unpleasant people. Here are...

Did you ever wonder what’s new in Azure, or what is updated recently? Azure keeps all its updates to Azure in a cool overview, the Azure Heatmap! Check it out using the following url: https://azureheatmap.azurewebsites.net/...

Microsoft is working hard on improving Azure File sync. They just announced the new release of the v7 agent. For now only current installed agents get the update. Once all current clients have been updated, the update will be available on Microsoft Update and Microsoft Download Center Improvements and...

In the Azure portal you can reset the password of a user, but this is always a temporary password. But PowerShell to the resque again, lets set the password in Azure AD with PowerShell with a predefined password! On your Windows device open a PowerShell prompt and connect to...

In the past two years, Over 50 percent of businesses experienced an unforeseen interruption, and the vast majority (81%) of these interruptions caused the business to be closed for one or more days. Did you know that 80 percent of businesses suffering a major disaster go out of business...

Today Microsoft has announced Azure Bastion. With this new service you will get improved security features and simplified IT managemend with a single click from your webbrowser using the HTML5 web client. This will eliminate the need for a jump server. I am looking forward in using this service...

— UPDATE 31-12-2019 — New disk sizes P1-P3 & E1-E3 In Azure there are several ways to implement your VM storage. I get a lot of complaints about slow storage in Azure. In this article I will try to explain why this might be slow, and what you can...

From the Office 365 Admin portal it is possible to deploy Office plugins to users, both specific as all users. With this manual we will deploy a plugin from the store, but you can deploy custom apps as well. The advantage of using plugins from the store is that...

Today we will learn how to deploy Microsoft Entra Domain services. So let’s go to the Azure portal and let’s get you started! Step 1: Go to Microsoft Entra Domain Services and create a new Microsoft Entra Domain services! Step 2: Now we can start te setup of MEDS,...

Where Azure MFA is only included in the paid Azure Active Directory Premium subscriptions (P1/P2 and EM+S suites), there is a free version for the Office 365 apps. It is always a good idea to enable multi factor authentication, in case your credentials get stolen, the thief will not...

You still have your old network drives? Still need to setup a VPN to access your file shares? Or have you migrated all your files to Azure file share but you need a higher performance for your Autocad files? Wait no longer, Azure File Sync to the rescue! Where...

Enterprise Mobility + Security is a Microsoft solution specially developed for management and securing users, company data and applications. This gives you and your users always secured access to your company information without ever worrying about security! With EM+S we are moving from a managed device to data management...

There are cases where you want or need to uninstall an Office update. Office 365 installations use a different update than the old Office 2013 & 2016 installations. Where the old installations are a point in time installation, click-to-run always downloads the latest version and then runs the setup....

Recently we created an AAD tenant that has no on-premises AD domain counterpart. Now we are facing an issue where we want to be able to use the identities in this tenant to log into some servers. It would appear that we would need to domain join these servers,...