Tag: Manual

In this manual I am going to show you how to deploy Azure MySQL Flexible Server with data encryption enabled using a Service Managed Keys (SMK) for data at rest encryption. What is Azure MySQL Flexible Server? Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed Azure database...

This is the first blog post about Azure Virtual WAN. In the coming series I will be showing how to deploy en setup Azure Virtual WAN and setup VPN connections (S2S and P2S). In this blog post we start with the first step:...

Privileged Identity Management is a service in Azure that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization. These resources include resources in Azure AD, Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune. Why should you use it? Organizations want to minimize the number of people who...

Remember the good old days with Active Directory Organizational Units? We where missing this in Azure AD, but it has finally arrived in Azure AD. Especially in bigger organizations you want to divide the organization in different units. Within each administrative unit you can delegate permissions to administrators of...

Fraudulent emails are becoming a common cyber threat. Anti-spoofing mail rules set up in Office 365 can help. In these phishing schemes, scammers research internal company names and send emails that look like they are coming from the CEO or someone else in the company. Typically the scam emails...

How cool would it be to automate your daily SQL tasks using Azure Automation? Well, really cool off course! Lets start using Azure Automation! Go ahead, if you don’t have an automation account yet, create one by going to Automation Accounts. Give your automation account a name, choose a...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...