The referenced account is currently locked out and may not be logged on to. You may receive the following error after creating your Azure AD DS instance and when you try and join your Azure server to the newly created domain you receive the error. There are a few options to test to try and…
Conditional Access policy for Guest and External Accounts In post, I will go through the steps of setting up a Conditional Access Policy which will enforce MFA for Guest and External Accounts. This will add another layer of protection if guest account credentials were compromised. To get started we need to sign into the Azure…
In this post I will walk through the process of how to change your recovery vault once you have setup your azure backup. To get started: Navigate to your vm which you want to move to a new recovery vault. Then click on Backup: Then click on “Stop backup” to stop the current backup in…
Azure Conditional Access Policy to Allow access to Office 365 from a certain Country only In this post, we will go through the setup of an Azure Conditional Access policy to Allow access to Office 365 portal and apps only from allowed location. To get started we need to navigate to the Azure Admin Portal:…
Create an Azure Storage account using PowerShell In this short post, I will show you how you can create a new Azure Storage Account using PowerShell. To get started, you will have to establish a connection to your Azure account by running the following. Before we continue, you will need to know the following information….
How to encrypt an Azure Virtual Machine In this post, I will show you how you can easily encrypt an Azure Virtual, Machine. Disks are encrypted by using cryptographic keys that are secured in an Azure Key Vault. You control these cryptographic keys and can audit their use. Virtual disks on Windows VMs are encrypted…
How to list available Azure VM images using PowerShell In this short post, I will show you how you can retrieve the current available VM images from Azure using Powershell. To get started, you will have to connect to Azure using PowerShell by running the following. You will be prompted for your Username and Password…
How to create a new Azure virtual machine using Azure PowerShell In this post, we will look at how to deploy a new Azure virtual machine using Azure PowerShell. In this post we will also look at creating a new VM using the Azure CLI. To get started we ned to start by installing the…
Deploy Azure Firewall In this post we will look at how to create and deploy Azure Firewall as well as creating two Azure virtual machines and connect one through the Azure Firewall. These servers will be categorized as a Jump host and workload server. All resources for the Azure firewall and VMs are created in…
Configure Azure AD Connect Pass Through Authentication Azure pass-through authentication allows user to login to cloud and on-premise applications by using the same passwords. Pass-through authentication validated the password against the on-premise active directory. Prerequisite needed: Global Admin account Azure AD Connect 1.1.750.0 or later Windows Server 2012 R2 or later with TLS 1.2 enabled…
Protect your Office 365 Tenant with Azure AD Risky Sign-Ins Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory provides some very Powerful tools related to security. These tools are what I call the CLOUD GEMS. (pot of gold under the rainbow) They are very useful when it comes to finding compromised accounts within your Office 365…
Block Office 365 Sign-In based on On-premise Active Directory Security Group. The purpose of this guide is the assist support staff to block access to multiple accounts that has been compromised. To get started, login to Azure Active Directory Portal. https://portal.azure.com 1 From the Main menu, click on Azure Active Directory on the left-hand side….