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.
Create custom Azure Workbooks for detailed monitoring
Thursday, May 08, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Azure Workbooks are an excellent way to monitor your application and dependencies in a nice and customizable dashboard. Workbooks can contain technical information from multiple sources, like: Metrics Log Analytics Workspaces Visualisations They’re …
Disable DirectSend in Exchange Online
Sunday, May 04, 2025 in Microsoft 365
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Microsoft has published a new command to completely disable the unsafe DirectSend protocol in your Microsoft 365 environment. In this guide I will explain what DirectSend is, why you should disable this and how we can achieve this. What is …
Setup a Minecraft server on Azure
Thursday, May 01, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Sometimes, we also want a step down from our work and want to fully enjoy a videogame. Especially when you really like games with open worlds, Minecraft is a great game. And what if I tell you we can setup a server for Minecraft on Azure so you can …
Skrepr Tech CI - PowerShell
Thursday, April 24, 2025 in PowerShell
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Dit is mijn Collective Intelligence voor mei 2025 over PowerShell. Ik ga hier wat leuke dingen over laten zien, zie de inhoud voor handige links naar de kopteksten. Aan het einde heb ik nog een leuke praktijkopdracht waarin we een PowerShell module …
Monitor Azure Virtual Deskop logon speed
Thursday, April 24, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Sometimes we want to know why a Azure Virtual Desktop logon took longer than expected. Several actions happen at Windows logon, like FSLogix profile mounting, Group Policy processing and preparing the desktop. I found a script online that helps us …
Storage Account performance and pricing for Azure Virtual Desktop
Sunday, April 20, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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Choosing the right performance tier of Azure Storage Accounts can be very complex. How much size and performance do we need? How many users will login to Azure Virtual Desktop and how many profile size do we want to assign them? In this blog post I …
Deploy Resource Group locks automatically with Azure Policy
Thursday, April 17, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Locks in Azure are a great way to prevent accidental deletion or modify resources or resource groups. This helps further securing your environment and make it somewhat more “fool proof”. Now with Azure Policy we can automatically deploy …
Monitor and reduce carbon emissions (CO2) in Azure
Thursday, April 10, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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In Microsoft Azure, we have some options to monitor and reduce your organizations Carbon emissions (CO2) from services hosted in the cloud. When hosting servers on-premises, they need power, cooling and networking and those are also needed in the …
Migrate servers with Azure Migrate in 7 steps
Thursday, April 03, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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This page is about Azure Migrate and how you can migrate an on-premises server or multiple servers to Microsoft Azure. This process is not very easy, but it’s also not extremely difficult. Microsoft hasn’t made it as simple as just …
AMC - Module 11: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps
Thursday, March 27, 2025 in Azure Master Class
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In this module, we cover Azure: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps. This module focuses more on development on Azure, with less emphasis on automation and IT management. While IaC and DevOps might seem less exciting at first, they are essential …