How to list available Azure VM images using PowerShell In this short post, I will show you how you can retrieve the current available VM images from Azure using Powershell. To get started, you will have to connect to Azure using PowerShell by running the following. You will be prompted for your Username and Password…
2 CommentsHow to create a new Azure virtual machine using Azure PowerShell In this post, we will look at how to deploy a new Azure virtual machine using Azure PowerShell. In this post we will also look at creating a new VM using the Azure CLI. To get started we ned to start by installing the…
2 CommentsDeploy Azure Firewall In this post we will look at how to create and deploy Azure Firewall as well as creating two Azure virtual machines and connect one through the Azure Firewall. These servers will be categorized as a Jump host and workload server. All resources for the Azure firewall and VMs are created in…
Leave a CommentConfigure Azure AD Connect Pass Through Authentication Azure pass-through authentication allows user to login to cloud and on-premise applications by using the same passwords. Pass-through authentication validated the password against the on-premise active directory. Prerequisite needed: Global Admin account Azure AD Connect 1.1.750.0 or later Windows Server 2012 R2 or later with TLS 1.2 enabled…
Leave a CommentProtect your Office 365 Tenant with Azure AD Risky Sign-Ins Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Active Directory provides some very Powerful tools related to security. These tools are what I call the CLOUD GEMS. (pot of gold under the rainbow) They are very useful when it comes to finding compromised accounts within your Office 365…
1 CommentBlock Office 365 Sign-In based on On-premise Active Directory Security Group. The purpose of this guide is the assist support staff to block access to multiple accounts that has been compromised. To get started, login to Azure Active Directory Portal. https://portal.azure.com 1 From the Main menu, click on Azure Active Directory on the left-hand side.…
Leave a CommentInstall the Azure AD Connect Tool To allow on-premises AD users to login to cloud services like Office 365, we need to configure the Azure AD Connect Tool. For the purpose of this post, the ADSync Tool will be installed on the ADFS server that I have running in my environment. To start the process…
1 CommentInstalling Windows PowerShell on Mac To get started we need to download the PowerShell Module for OSX from the following website: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/ Now that we have the install file, we can simply click on the .pkg file to start the installation. The installation is very simple and straight forward. Once the setup window appears click…
1 CommentHow to create Office 365 Users using PowerShell In this post, I will look at how we can create new Office 365 Users using PowerShell and look at how we can create bulk Office 365 users using a PowerShell script. To get started we need to connect to Office 365 using PowerShell. This can be…
Leave a CommentConditional Access for Office 365 Apps In this post, I will go over the steps of how to create a conditional access policy for Office 365 Apps using Azure AD. What is conditional access? conditional access allows the administrator to fine-tune how users can access the cloud resources. These policies can allow you to restrict…
Leave a CommentWhat is Azure ExpressRoute Connections Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a dedicated private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and CRM Online. Connectivity can be from an any-to-any (IP VPN)…
Leave a CommentAzure AD – Source Anchor What is Azure AD – Source Anchor? The sourceAnchor is an attribute that is unchangeable for the life time of the user object. It is the primary attribute / key linking the on-premises user object with the user object in Azure AD. Which Attribute to use as sourceAnchor? Since the…
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