Install the Azure AD Connect Tool To allow on-premises AD users to login to cloud services like Office 365, we need to configure the Azure AD Connect Tool. For the purpose of this post, the ADSync Tool will be installed on the ADFS server that I have running in my environment. To start the process…
Installing Windows PowerShell on Mac To get started we need to download the PowerShell Module for OSX from the following website: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/ Now that we have the install file, we can simply click on the .pkg file to start the installation. The installation is very simple and straight forward. Once the setup window appears click…
How to create Office 365 Users using PowerShell In this post, I will look at how we can create new Office 365 Users using PowerShell and look at how we can create bulk Office 365 users using a PowerShell script. To get started we need to connect to Office 365 using PowerShell. This can be…
Conditional Access for Office 365 Apps In this post, I will go over the steps of how to create a conditional access policy for Office 365 Apps using Azure AD. What is conditional access? conditional access allows the administrator to fine-tune how users can access the cloud resources. These policies can allow you to restrict…
What is Azure ExpressRoute Connections Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a dedicated private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and CRM Online. Connectivity can be from an any-to-any (IP VPN)…
Azure AD – Source Anchor What is Azure AD – Source Anchor? The sourceAnchor is an attribute that is unchangeable for the life time of the user object. It is the primary attribute / key linking the on-premises user object with the user object in Azure AD. Which Attribute to use as sourceAnchor? Since the…
How to create Azure Availability Set This post will cover a quick how to for creating an Azure Availability set. What is an Availability set? An availability set is a logical grouping of VMs within a datacenter that allows Azure to understand how your application is built to provide for redundancy and availability. The Azure…
Azure Update and Fault Domains Microsoft Azure operates from multiple Datacenters across the word, these Datacenters are grouped in geographic regions, providing flexibly for application building. The purpose of this post is to focus on two areas of Azure regions and availability and that is Fault and Update Domains. Fault domains A fault domain is…
Azure Security Center – Overview Azure security Center provides advanced thread protection and unified security management for a lot of different types of workload running in Azure, on premise or in other clouds. It provides an active defense which reduces your exposure to threads, and provides and intelligent detection to help you keep up to…
How to add an SSL Certificate to Azure Web App. In this post, I we quickly run through the options of assigning a SSL certificate to an Azure Web application. Something to note is that we cannot create a certificate. csr file from the Azure console. To get started you need to be logged in…
How to Add Custom Domain Name to Azure Web App. In this post, I will do a brief demonstration on how to add a Custom Domain name to an Azure Web application. By default, all Azure Web Apps has the extension azurewebsites.net. As an organization, this might not be acceptable or live up to the…
How to get your Azure WordPress Web App FTP Url and Credentials. In today’s post I will quickly show, how you can get the login details to your Azure WordPress website. In a lot of instances, you just need to access the ftp site upload some file etc. To get started you need to login…