Blog
This is my blog section. Here all new blog posts will be showed in reverse-chronological order. Just a fancy way to say newest-top.
At the left, you can view the categories, and on the right you can find the tags and Table of contents.
Solved - Windows Store applications on FSLogix/Azure Virtual Desktop
Thursday, August 15, 2024 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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By default, Microsoft Store applications are not supported when using FSLogix. The root cause is that Windows stores some metadata that is not roamed in the profile folder and cleared at every new logon. You will encounter this behaviour in every …
Migrate Group Policies to a new server or domain like a pro
Wednesday, August 07, 2024 in Windows Server
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Once in a while, we as IT administrators need to export and import our Group Policies of Windows Server to another server. Sometimes to copy a great policy you’ve built, or to migrate a customer to a new server. By default, the only option …
Optimize Windows 11 for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
Sunday, August 04, 2024 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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When using Windows 11 on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) - without the right optimization - the experience can be a little laggy, stuttery and slow. Especially when you came from Windows 10 with the same settings. You definitely want to optimize some …
Introduction to Azure roles and permissions (RBAC/IAM)
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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When managing a Microsoft Azure environment, permissions and roles with RBAC is one of the basic ways to improve your security. At one hand, you want to have the permissions to do basic tasks but at the other hand you want to restrict an user to be …
Get Windows Product Key with PowerShell
Sunday, July 28, 2024 in PowerShell
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Sometimes we need to have the original installed Windows Product Key just for documentation purposes. We simple can do this with one command in PowerShell: POWERSHELL (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows …
Network security in Azure with NSG and ASG
Friday, July 26, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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When designing, managing and securing a network in Microsoft Azure we have lots of options to do this. We can leverage third-party appliances like Fortinet, Palo Alto, PFSense or Sophos XG Firewall but we can also use the somewhat limited built-in …
Create a Catch all mailbox in Exchange Online
Thursday, July 11, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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Sometimes a company wants to receive all email, even when addresses don’t really exist in Exchange. Now we call this a Catch all mailbox, where all inbound email is being catched that is not pointed to a known recipient. Think of a sort of …
Rename name-tags to resource groups and resources
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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When it comes to naming your Azure Resource Groups and resources, most of them are not renameable. This due to limitations on the platform and maybe some underlying technical limitations. However, it is possible to assign a renameable tag to a …
Microsoft 365 create a shared mailbox with same alias
Thursday, June 06, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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When using Microsoft 365 and using multiple custom domains, sometimes you are unable to create a shared mailbox that uses the same alias as an existing mailbox. In this guide I will explain this problem and show how to still get the job done. The …
Migrate data to SharePoint/OneDrive with SPMT
Monday, May 20, 2024 in Microsoft 365
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When still managing on-premises environments, but shifting your focus to the cloud you sometimes need to do a migration. This page helps you to migrate to SharePoint or Onedrive according to your needs. At the moment, SharePoint is a better option to …