Azure Stack is an On-Prem Hybrid Cloud Extension of Azure Microsoft Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud solution that allows organizations to run Azure consistent services in their data center, providing a simplified development, management and security experience that is consistent with Azure public cloud services. Azure Stack is an extension of Azure; it…
Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption In this post, I will look at configuring message encryption in Office 365. What is message encryption? Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption is an extra add-on online service build on Microsoft Azure Right Management (Azure RMS), By enabling Azure RMS administrators can configure message encryption by configuring exchange online…
New Microsoft Azure sign-in experience public preview is now live. Recently Microsoft has rolled out a new Sign in look across the Microsoft platform i.e. Outlook.com and Microsoft Office 365. The new look is sleek and modern and I must say I love this new look. Once you sign in to your Microsoft Office…
Assign Office 365 Licenses with Active Directory Groups In this post I will walk through the options of assigning Office 365 Licenses based on Active Directory Group membership. Microsoft has recently released the new feature in Azure Active Directory which allows you to apply Azure licenses as well as Office 365 licenses based on group…
The following Script was created to assist a help desk department to quickly get a list of ‘Members’ from an Active Directory Group. This is a very simple script that prompts you for a Group Name and will then use Grid-View to display the results. Original Post : https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-Domain-Group-Members-bf33a1a2?redir=0 GetGroupMembers #ThatLazyAdmin
Search for Disabled Users and Move to Disabled Ou using PowerShell Created this script to search a ‘OU’ for disabled users and move them to a different ou . I have added the ‘WhatIf’ option by default . Once you run the script it will prompt for ‘Search OU’ and ‘Target OU’ . #Created to ease…
Express installation of Azure AD Connect Tool Can be downloaded from Here Sign in as a local administrator to the server you wish to install Azure AD Connect on. You should do this on the server you wish to be the sync server. Navigate to and double-click AzureADConnect.msi. On the Welcome screen, select the box agreeing…
See why more and more businesses are reporting success with the cloud Based on a Survey done by MMicrosoft Nearly 80 per cent of IT pros surveyed said that they could save money and gain more productivity as a result of using a cloud approach. Learn how your small business can use the cloud to:…
Peer behind the curtain – how Microsoft runs Exchange Online Speakers: Eddie Fong (Microsoft), Karim Battish (Microsoft) For full session details, click here. ABSTRACT: For 75 minutes, you’ll give you a virtual Microsoft blue badge and enter the world of Microsoft Exchange Online operations. See how it’s done with a rare look behind the scenes…
On April 13 of last year, Microsoft announced the deprecation of “Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync)” and “Azure Active Directory Sync (Azure AD Sync)” and that it was time to start planning to upgrade to Azure AD Connect. They have also announced that end of Support for DirSync & AzureAD Sync will be on…
Test network latencies and speed to Azure data centers from different countries. www.AzureSpeed.com is developed and maintained by Blair Chen (@blrchen), open source on GitHub, built on top of following open source projects Great tool by @blrchen, surely one of the tools to keep in your toolbox. AZURE Latency Test
One of the great features of Windows Azure is VHD mobility. Simply put it means you can upload and download VHDs to and from the cloud. Note: If you are used to using CSUpload.exe for uploading VHDs you should switch to PowerShell. CSUpload.exe has been marked as deprecated and will likely not ship in…