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…
How to Deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2013 This post will focus on deploying SharePoint 2013 using best practices. The original post has been created by Renjith Memon, who is a regular blogger at http://www.renjithmenon.com. To get started lets look at a basic design and what requirements is needed. Before we begin the installation let’s look at the…
Assign Exchange Online Permissions using PowerShell You can quickly and easily assign roles to user accounts using Office 365 PowerShell by identifying the user account’s Display Name and the role’s Name. To start, you first need to establish a session to Office 365 PowerShell, this can be done by a script a created which is…
Microsoft Exchange Online Multi-Geo Capabilities What is Multi – Geo Capabilities? Multi-Geo enables a single Office 365 tenant to span across multiple Office 365 datacenter geographies (geos), and gives customers the ability to store their Exchange and OneDrive data, at-rest, on a per-user basis, in their chosen geos. If you are part of the Microsoft…
Create Windows Instance in Google Cloud Platform This post is taking me away from my usual posts, Instead I will go through a quick guide on how to create a Windows Instance on Google Cloud Platform. What is Google Cloud Platform? Google Cloud Platform, is a set of cloud offering from Google which runs on…
Microsoft Exchange 2013 – 2016 September 2017 Update Microsoft made the latest CU (cumulative Updates) available for both Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016. These updates include fixes which was reported by customers as well as includes security updates. During a previous post from Microsoft, they have informed customers that a minimum Active Directory forest functional…
Adding .Net Framework 3.5 feature failed. When trying to install .Netframework 3.5 you receive an error that the feature installation has failed. This problem occurs because security updates 2966827 and 2966828 for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-046 for the .NET Framework 3.5 require metadata that is added to the system only if the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 feature is enabled on the…
Microsoft Released Technical Preview of Project “Honolulu” In the built up to Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft has released the Technical Preview of Project Honolulu. Honolulu is a flexible, locally-deployed, browser-based management platform and tools to manage your environment. 1.Overview: Take a broad look at Project “Honolulu”, its architecture, deployment options, and its capabilities. https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/1433/528cd435-2727-4db9-a016-08b853bf1433/HonoluluOverview_mid.mp4 2. Getting started: See how…
Antivirus exclusions for Exchange 2016 servers In this post, we will look at the Antivirus exclusions for Windows in order to run a successful Exchange 2016 environment. It is not uncommon to run antivirus programs on your Exchange 2016 servers, however if the configuration is not done correctly it could have some negative effects on…
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…