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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.
Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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In the modern era like where we are today, security is a very important aspect of every system you manage. Bad security of 1 system can mess with all your systems. So have a good overview of how secure your complete IT environment is, Microsoft …
Using PowerShell remote sessions
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in PowerShell
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PowerShell Remote Sessions can be a great way to administer your virtual machines, cluster-nodes or physical Windows-based devices. With a Powershell remote session you can execute powershell commands on a remote device. It works the best with …
Introduction to the Azure Well-Architected Framework
Tuesday, April 02, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a framework to improve the quality of your Microsoft Azure Deployment. This does it by spanning 5 pillars so an architect can determine with IT decision makers how they can get the most Azure with the planned …
How to enable Remote Group Policy update
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 in PowerShell
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Group Policy update to multiple computers Sometimes you want to force a group policy update on multiple computers. Often when i am configuring Azure Virtual Desktop Session Hosts i need this option instead of logging into all hosts and executing the …
Cloud Adoption Framework Introduction (CAF)
Thursday, January 04, 2024 in Microsoft Azure
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More and more organizations are moving to the cloud. In order to do this succesful, we can use the Cloud Adoption Framework which is described by Microsoft. The framework is a succesful order of processes and guidelines which companys can use to …
Dynamic group for access to Windows 365
Friday, December 01, 2023 in Microsoft Entra
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When using Windows 365 in your organization, the deployment is very easy to do. When it comes to adding more users to the service, it can be much manual clicks to reach your goal. My advice is to leverage the Dynamic Group feature of Microsoft Entra. …
Dynamic Distribution Groups in Microsoft 365
Saturday, October 21, 2023 in Microsoft 365
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Sometimes you want to have a distribution group with all your known mailboxes in it. For example an employees@justinverstijnen.nl or all@justinverstijnen.nl address to send a mail company wide. A normal distribution group is possible, but requires a …
Change Evaluation version to Standard/Datacenter version
Wednesday, May 03, 2023 in Windows Server
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When you install a fresh Windows Server installation from a .iso file, it will be installing the OS as a Evaluation version. When you want to activate the installation with a key you need to rebuild the OS and set the edition to Standard. Microsoft …
Bulk create Active Directory users with Powershell
Monday, March 20, 2023 in PowerShell
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When it comes to creating users for Active Directory, especially in new implementations, you want to minimize the time needed to create the accounts. This is possible by creating the AD users with Powershell. Requirements Minimal knowledge of …