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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.
Disk cleaning script on Windows Azure VMs
Saturday, June 28, 2025 in PowerShell
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On Windows Servers, a critical point is maintaining the disk space. If a disk fills up to the end, several errors can occur and impacting the end-users experience of your applications. Something we definitely not want. To help reducing this chance, I …
Audit your privileged Entra ID applications
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 in Microsoft Entra
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In Microsoft Entra ID it’s possible to create App registrations and Enterprise applications who can get high privileges if not managed and monitored regularly. We do our best with Identities to be secure, with security processes like MFA, …
Azure Default VM Outbound access deprecated
Thursday, June 19, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Starting on 30 September 2025, default outbound connectivity for Azure VMs will be retired. This means that after this date you have to configure a way for virtual machines to actually have connection to the internet. Otherwise, you will get an VM …
Enhance email security with SPF/DKIM/DMARC
Monday, June 16, 2025 in Microsoft 365
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When it comes to basic email security, we have 3 techniques that can enhance our email security and delivery by some basic initial configuration. Those are called SPF, DKIM and DMARC. This means, configure and mostly never touch again. Microsoft …
Pooled Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure AD cloud users only
Thursday, June 12, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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This deployment option is superseded by the more easy and secure Entra Kerberos option, check out the updated deployment guide here: https://justinverstijnen.nl/azure-virtual-desktop-fslogix-and-native-kerberos-authentication/ Since the beginning of …
Microsoft Azure certifications for Developers
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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This page shows what Microsoft Azure certifications are available for Developer-minded people. I intend to focus as much on the developers as possible, although this is not my primary subject. I did some research and i didn’t find it very clear …
Introduction to Networks
Wednesday, June 04, 2025 in Networking
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This page is an introduction to Networks. We don’t need to know everything about it, but often face it in our work. In this guide I will give you a basic understanding of networks, IP addresses, VLANs, Segmenting etcetera. Basically everything …
Creating Static Web Apps on Azure the easy way
Thursday, May 29, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Microsoft Azure has a service called the ‘Static Web Apps" (SWA) which are simple but yet effective webpages. They can host HTML pages with included CSS and can link with Azure Functions for doing more advanced tasks for you. In this guide …
Test Azure Virtual Desktop connectivity and RTT
Thursday, May 22, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Sometimes, we need to check some basic connectivity from end user devices to a service like Azure Virtual Desktop. Most networks have a custom firewall equipped where we must allow certain traffic to flow to the internet. Previously there was a tool …
Windows Search optimization on Azure Virtual Desktop
Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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When using Windows 11 Multi Session images on Azure for Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft has disabled some features and changed the behaviour to optimize it for using with multiple users. One of the things that has been “lazy loading” is …