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.
Automatic Azure Boot diagnostics monitoring with Azure Policy
Thursday, September 11, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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In Azure, we can configure Boot diagnostics to view the status of a virtual machine and connect to its serial console. However, this must be configured manually. The good part is that we can automate this process with Azure Policy. In this post I …
How to completely hide language bar/selector Windows 11
Tuesday, September 09, 2025 in PowerShell
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One of the small things I experienced in one of the updates for Windows 11 (24H2) is that the language bar/selector get’s automatically visible on the Windows taskbar. In previous versions of Windows, this was only available when using multiple …
Wordpress on Azure
Thursday, September 04, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Wordpress. Its maybe the best and easiest way to maintain a website. This can be run on any server. In Azure, we also have great and serverless possibilities to run Wordpress. In this guide I will show you how to do this, how to enhance the …
New: Azure Service Groups
Monday, September 01, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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A new feature in Microsoft Azure rised up on the Microsoft pages; Service Groups. In this guide, we will dive a bit deeper into Service Groups and what we can do with them in practice. At the time of writing, this feature is in public preview and …
In-Place upgrade to Windows Server 2025 on Azure
Thursday, August 28, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Once every 3 to 4 years you want to be on the last version of Windows Server because of new features and of course to have the latest security updates. These security updates are the most important these days. When having your server hosted on …
Starting out with Universal Print
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 in Intune
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Universal Print is a Microsoft cloud solution which can replace your Windows based printservices. It can be used to deploy printers to endpoints, even to non-Windows devices in a cloud-only way. Requirements Around 30 minutes of your time A license …
Azure Image Builder voor AVD
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Even uitzoeken en testen of dit interresant is. UItgezocht, ziet er heel veel handwerk uit. Naar mijn inziens is het makkelijekr om een image weer op te starten dan customizations te doen en dan weer imagen. End of the page 🎉 You have reached the end …
Match AD users using Entra Connect Sync and MSGraph
Monday, August 18, 2025 in Microsoft Entra
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Sometimes, it is necessary to match an existing local Active Directory (AD) user through Entra Connect with an existing Entra ID user (formerly known as Azure AD). This process ensures that the account in both environments is aligned and maintains …
Joining storage account to Active Directory (AD DS)
Thursday, August 14, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Joining a storage account to Active Directory can be a hard part of configuring Azure Virtual Desktop or other components to work. We must join the storage account so we can do our Kerberos authentication against the storage account. In this guide I …
Initial Installation script for Windows Azure VMs
Sunday, August 10, 2025 in PowerShell
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When deploying Windows VMs in Azure, we get the default settings. This means we get a 12-hour clock, standard UTC/Zulu timezone and such. For users like us in the Netherlands we want to change this but not by hand. For this purpose I built this …