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.
The Basics and Benefits of IPv6
Friday, February 14, 2025 in Networking
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IPv6. We hear it a lot these days and it’s a very common network addressing protocol and the successor of the older IPv4, but will not necessarily take over IPv4 100% (yet). On this page I will describe the basics, some tips and the benefits. …
Using Azure Update Manager to manage updates at scale
Saturday, February 08, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Azure Update Manager is a tool from Microsoft and is developed to automate, installing and documenting Windows updates or updates to Linux server on Azure. This all in a single pane of glass and without installing any additional software. …
Active Directory FSMO roles
Tuesday, February 04, 2025 in Windows Server
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Active Directory Domain Controllers are assigned 5 different FSMO roles, which all have their own function. We can separate them over multiple servers to create more redundancy, but make sure to handle those all as servers. All roles neeed a 24/7 …
Get Device serial number on Windows 11 24H2 and up
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 in PowerShell
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With Windows 24H2 and the deprecation of WMIC, a easy command to find your devices’ serial number is gone. However, we can still look this up with Powershell. Use the following command: POWERSHELL Get-WmiObject win32_bios | select SerialNumber …
Stop OneNote printer from being default printer in AVD
Friday, January 10, 2025 in Azure Virtual Desktop
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If you have the Office Apps installed with OneNote included, sometimes the OneNote printer will be installed as default: This can be very annoying for our end users and ourselves as we want real printers to be the default printer. Today I will show …
10 ways to use tags in Microsoft Azure
Friday, January 10, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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When being introduced to Azure, I learned about tags very quickly. However, this is something you can use in practice but is no requirement to make stuff actually work. Now some years ahead in my Azure journey, I can recommend (at least) 10 ways to …
How to upload PowerShell script to Gallery with Github Actions
Thursday, January 02, 2025 in PowerShell
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When using the PowerShell Gallery to upload and publish your scripts and PowerShell modules to the world it’s recommended to use Github Actions for CI/CD to automatically update your live packages on the PowerShell Gallery. At first, this …
Azure VPN Gateway Maintenance - How to configure
Wednesday, January 01, 2025 in Microsoft Azure
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Most companies who use Microsoft Azure in a hybrid setup have a Site-to-Site VPN gateway between the network in Azure and on-premises. This connection becomes mission critical for this company as a disruption mostly means a disruption in work or …
Create AD users with on demand script
Friday, December 27, 2024 in PowerShell
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Today I have a PowerShell script that creates users by asking the user what to fill in. This works by having a fully prepared “New-ADUser” command with all the properties filled in to have all users using the same attributes. I will …
AMC - Module 5: Storage in Azure
Saturday, December 21, 2024 in Azure Master Class
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This module focuses purely on the various storage services that Azure offers and provides. Additionally, we will explore the different options available to increase redundancy and apply greater resilience. The importance and types of storage Storage …