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Pictures of the Dutch Windows Management User Group 2019-5 Meetup
‘ Last Wednesday I was a guest at the company I called ‘home’ for over 15 years. I was scheduled to deliver a 45-minute session on Azure AD Connect. As this is one of my favorite topics to talk on, I...
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Video of my AppManagEvent 2019 session is now available
On Friday October 11, 2019, I presented a 45-minute session. The session was titled ‘Identity, the solid base for your organization’s future’. I presented the session in the context of Professional...
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Asked questions at VeeamON Virtual 2019
Last week, I had the pleasure of being one of the experts in the VeeamON Virtual Expert Lounge for both the APAC and Americas events. I also attended the Europe event. In this blogpost, I’m sharing...
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Video of my Active Directory session at VMworld Europe is now available
On November 7, 2019, I presented a 60-minute session with Deji Akomolafe. The session was titled ‘Virtualize Active Directory the right way’. We presented the session in the context of VMware’s...
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HOWTO: Enable Extended Protection for Authentication on the AD FS Farm
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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What’s New in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 4
Since August 2016, this blog features news on Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. We’ve been implementing this awesome Veeam product at customers ever since version 1.5 and validated the Office 365...
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Knowledgebase: When you enable DNS debug logging to removable media, the DNS...
Sometimes, Microsoft products have a way of their own. The Domain Naming System (DNS) service since Windows Server 2003, too, has a nice little quirk that I ran into the other day, that I’d like to...
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Video of my Azure AD Connect session at Dutch Windows Management User Group...
On November 13, 2019, I presented a 30-minute session at 5th meeting of the Dutch Windows Management User Group for 2019 at the company I called ‘home’ for over 15 years: OGD in Delft. The video of my...
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On-premises Identity updates & fixes for November 2019
Even though Microsoft’s Identity focus moves towards the cloud, they are not forgetting their on-premises roots. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 still receive updates. These are the...
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Azure AD Connect version 1.4.38.0 offers some bug fixes
It’s time for a new version of Azure AD Connect to incorporate Microsoft’s lessons learned and distribute the fixes Microsoft made to the larger public. Last Friday, Microsoft released the fourth...
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Pictures of the 2019 European SharePoint Conference
Last week, I delivered two sessions at the European SharePoint Conference in Prague. After a day of consulting on Tuesday December 3rd at one of my long-term customers, I traveled to Schiphol airport....
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What’s New in Azure Active Directory for November 2019
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its...
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HOWTO: Enable Azure Multi-factor Authentication on AD FS
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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HOWTO: Change the Security Response Headers on AD FS
Most Microsoft-based Hybrid Identity implementations use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Servers, Web Application Proxies and Azure AD Connect installations. In this series, labeled...
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Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (SIGred, Wormable,...
Yesterday, Microsoft released updates for all supported versions of Windows and Windows Server to address a remote code execution vulnerability in DNS Server, marked as critical. Its official common...
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Three ways to use Site Recovery Manager with virtualized Domain Controllers
One of the benefits of virtualizing machines is the built-in resiliency of the underlying virtualization platform. In many vSphere environments consisting of multiple datacenters, this resiliency is...
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HOWTO: Perform an Azure AD Connect Swing Migration
Azure AD Connect is a crucial component in today’s Hybrid Identity strategies. This tool takes care of the synchronization of objects and their attributes from an on-premises Active Directory...
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TODO: Move from the Azure AD Graph API to the Microsoft Graph API
Last month, Microsoft has announced the deprecation of the Azure Active Directory Graph API (graph.windows.net). Going forward, the Microsoft Graph API (graph.microsoft.com) is the supported way to...
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HOWTO: Set an alert to notify when an additional person is assigned the Azure...
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. User...
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Achieving Active Directory-as-a-Service with VMware vRealize Orchestrator
VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator is a product used by many virtualization admins to automate common tasks. Today, we’re looking at using vRealize Orchestrator to enable automation of common Active...
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