I tested Azure Virtual Desktop RemoteAppV2
Microsoft announced RemoteAppV2 under some pretty enhancements on top of the older RemoteApp engine. This newer version has some…
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Getting started with GitHub Pages
With GitHub Pages, we can host some free websites for personal use. This is really great as we mostly already use GitHub to store our code and assets for websites.
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How to properly secure Break Glass Accounts in your Entra ID
In our environment, we will do everything to secure it as much as possible. We give users only the permissions they need and only at…
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Everything you need to know about Azure Bastion
Azure Bastion is a great tool in Azure to ensure your virtual machines are accessible in a fast, safe and easy way. This is cool if you…
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What is MTA-STS and how to use it to protect your email flow
MTA-STS is a standard for ensuring TLS is always used for email transmission. This increases security and data protection because…
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Azure Virtual Desktop RDP Properties
In this post, we will be looking at the most popular different RDP Properties we can use in Azure Virtual Desktop.I will be talking about…
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Azure Compute Gallery and (AVD) VM images
Azure Compute Gallery is a great service in Azure to store, capture and maintain your VM images. This can be helpful when deploying…
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New: Azure Service Groups
We now have a new feature in Microsoft Azure; Service Groups. In this guide, we will dive a bit deeper into Service Groups and what we can…
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Using FSLogix App Masking to hide applications on Virtual Desktops
In this blog post I will explain and demonstrate the pro’s and features of using FSLogix App Masking for Azure Virtual Desktop. This is a…
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Use Ephemeral OS Disks in Azure
In Azure, you have the option to create Ephemeral OS disks for your machine. This sounds really cool but what is it actually, what pro’s…
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Implement Certificate-based authentication for Entra ID scripts
When using Entra ID, we can automate a lot of different tasks. We can use a script processing server for this task but doing that…
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What is Azure Firewall?
Azure Firewall is a Firewall which can be implemented in your Azure network. It acts as a Layer 3, 4 and 7 Firewall and so has more…
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Azure Default VM Outbound access deprecated
Starting on 30 September 2025, default outbound connectivity for Azure VMs will be retired. This means that after this date you have to…
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Enhance email security with SPF/DKIM/DMARC
When it comes to basic email security, we have 3 techniques that can enhance our email security. SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
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Microsoft Azure certifications for Developers
This page shows what Microsoft Azure certifications are available for Developer-minded people. I intend to focus as much on the developers…
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Introduction to Networks
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…
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Creating Static Web Apps on Azure the easy way
Microsoft Azure has a service called the ‘Static Web Apps" (SWA) which are simple but yet effective webpages. They can host HTML…
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Create custom Azure Workbooks for detailed monitoring
Azure Workbooks are an excellent way to monitor your application and dependencies in a nice and customizable dashboard. Workbooks can…
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Skrepr Tech CI - PowerShell
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Storage Account performance and pricing for Azure Virtual Desktop
Choosing the right performance tier of Azure Storage Accounts can be very complex. How much size and performance do we need? How many…
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Monitor and reduce carbon emissions (CO2) in Azure
In Microsoft Azure, we have some options to monitor and reduce your organizations Carbon emissions (CO2) from services hosted in the cloud.
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AMC - Module 11: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps
In this module, we cover Azure: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps. This module focuses more on development on Azure, with less emphasis…
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AMC - Module 10: Monitoring and Security
In this module, i want you to understand all the possibilities of Monitoring and some Security features of Microsoft Azure…
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AMC - Module 9: Databases & AI
In this module we will explore various possibilities of Databases and AI in Microsoft Azure.
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AMC - Module 8: Application Services and Containers
This module is about application services and containers in Microsoft Azure. It mainly focuses on containers and containerized…
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AMC - Module 7: Virtual Machines and Scale Sets
This module explicitly covers virtual machines and virtual machines in combination with VMSS (Virtual Machine Scale Sets). Also we cover…
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AMC - Module 6: Networking in Microsoft Azure
In Module 6, we will explore all the possibilities of Azure regarding networking, VPNs, load balancing methods, proxies, and gateways. This…
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The Basics and Benefits of IPv6
We hear it a lot these days and it’s a very common network addressing protocol. On this page I will describe the basics and benefits of IPv6.
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Active Directory FSMO roles
Active Directory Domain Controllers are assigned 5 different FSMO roles, which all have their own function. We can separate them over multiple…
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Get Device serial number on Windows 11 24H2 and up
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.
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10 ways to use tags in Microsoft Azure
When being introduced to Azure, I learned about tags very quickly. However, this is something you can use in practice but is no requirement…
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AMC - Module 5: Storage in Azure
This module focuses purely on the various storage services that Azure offers and provides. Additionally, we will
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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a security solution for an organization’s external attack surfaces. It ope…
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Azure Key Vault
Azure Key Vault is a type of vault used to store sensitive technical information, such as: Certificates, Secrets and Keys. What sets Azure…
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The MITRE ATTACK Framework
How does the MITRE ATTACK framework work? Let’s find out in this guide.
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The Zero Trust-model
The Zero Trust model is a widely approved approach to secure an IT environment. What is it and what does it stand for? You read it in this guide.
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AMC - Module 4: Resiliency and Redundancy in Azure
This module is all about resiliency and redundancy in Microsoft Azure. Resiliency literally means flexibility. It refers to how resistant…
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AMC - Module 3: Governance in Microsoft Azure
Governance in Azure refers to the enforcement of rules and the establishment of standards in solutions, naming conventions…
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Configure DNSSEC and SMTP DANE Microsoft 365
This guide explains how to configure the new announced DNSSEC and SMTP DANE security options in Exchange Online.
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AMC - Module 2: Identity in Azure
This Azure Master Class (AMC) chapter is all about Identity in Microsoft Azure. This means we discuss the following: Users, Groups, Ente…
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AMC - Module 1: Fundamentals of Cloud and Microsoft Azure
This chapter is about the term “Cloud” and the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure and Cloud Services in general.
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Microsoft Azure Master Class - Navigation page
Hey there! I have a new collection of blog posts here. A while ago (2023) I followed the Azure Master Class course of John Savill, and done…
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How to learn Azure - My learning resources
When starting to learn Microsoft Azure, the resources and information can be overwhelming. At this page i have summarized…
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Introduction to Azure roles and permissions (RBAC/IAM)
In this page, I will explain you the basics of Microsoft Azure roles and permissions management (RBAC) and help you secure your environment.
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Network security in Azure with NSG and ASG
At this page, i will explain you how basic Network security works in Azure by using only Network Security Groups (NSG) and ASG.
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Rename name-tags to resource groups and resources
By default, resource names in Azure aren’t renameable. Luckily there now is a workaround for this with tags and i will explain you how to…
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Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)
So have a good overview of how secure your complete IT environment is, Microsoft released the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark, which is…
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Introduction to the Azure Well-Architected Framework
The Azure Well Architected Framework (WAF) is a framework to improve the quality of your Microsoft Azure Deployment. This does it by..
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Cloud Adoption Framework Introduction (CAF)
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud. In order to do this succesfully, we can use the Cloud Adoption Framework which is de…