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Creating an Azure VPN with a Draytek Router
The Microsoft Azure cloud operating system can be connected to your network by way of a virtual private network or VPN. Azure lists some supported devices and provides configuration scripts for them,...
View ArticleAn “Inexpensive” Exchange Lab In Azure
This blog post centres around two scripts that can be used to quickly provision an Exchange Server lab in Azure and then to remove it again. The reason why the blog post is titled “inexpensive” is that...
View ArticleCreating Mailboxes in Office 365 When Using DirSync
This blog post describes the process to create a new user in Active Directory on-premises when email is held in Office 365 and DirSync is in use. With DirSync in use the editable copy of the user...
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Windows RRAS VPN and Multi Factor Authentication
This blog post covers the steps to add Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) to Windows RRAS server. Once this is enabled, and you sign in with a user enabled for MFA in Azure Multi-Factor Authentication...
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Exchange OWA and Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), that is the need to have a username, password and something else to pass authentication is possible with on-premises servers using a service from Windows Azure and...
View ArticleHow To Change Your Office 365 App Password
If you are enabled for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Office 365 then you will need an App Password for some applications that do not support MFA. The user interface for creating a new App...
View ArticleManaging Office 365 Groups With Remote PowerShell
Announced during Microsoft Ignite 2015, there are now PowerShell administration cmdlets available for the administration of the Groups feature in Office 365. The cmdlets are all based around...
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Configuring Writeback Permissions in Active Directory for Azure Active...
Azure Active Directory has been long the read-only cousin of Active Directory for those Office 365 and Azure users who sync their directory from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory apart from...
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Password Writeback Errors
I had been struggling with password writeback testing and was coming across the following set of errors, and found that searching for them uncovered nothing online. So I wrote this blog to remind me...
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Creating an Azure VPN with a Draytek Router
The Microsoft Azure cloud operating system can be connected to your network by way of a virtual private network or VPN. Azure lists some supported devices and provides configuration scripts for them,...
View ArticleAn “Inexpensive” Exchange Lab In Azure
This blog post centres around two scripts that can be used to quickly provision an Exchange Server lab in Azure and then to remove it again. The reason why the blog post is titled “inexpensive” is that...
View ArticleCreating Mailboxes in Office 365 When Using DirSync
This blog post describes the process to create a new user in Active Directory on-premises when email is held in Office 365 and DirSync is in use. With DirSync in use the editable copy of the user...
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Windows RRAS VPN and Multi Factor Authentication
This blog post covers the steps to add Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) to Windows RRAS server. Once this is enabled, and you sign in with a user enabled for MFA in Azure Multi-Factor Authentication...
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Exchange OWA and Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA), that is the need to have a username, password and something else to pass authentication is possible with on-premises servers using a service from Windows Azure and...
View ArticleHow To Change Your Office 365 App Password
If you are enabled for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in Office 365 then you will need an App Password for some applications that do not support MFA. The user interface for creating a new App...
View ArticleManaging Office 365 Groups With Remote PowerShell
Announced during Microsoft Ignite 2015, there are now PowerShell administration cmdlets available for the administration of the Groups feature in Office 365. The cmdlets are all based around...
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Configuring Writeback Permissions in Active Directory for Azure Active...
[Update November 2015 – User Writeback has been pulled from preview, so latest versions of AADConnect do not offer this option – it will probably return, so content about it remains in this blog] Azure...
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Password Writeback Errors
I had been struggling with password writeback testing and was coming across the following set of errors, and found that searching for them uncovered nothing online. So I wrote this blog to remind me...
View ArticleConfiguring ExpressRoute With NRP Errors
I had a scenario where when I ran Get-AzureRmExpressRouteServiceProvider in a new Azure tenant I would get the following error in PowerShell. Get-AzureRmExpressRouteServiceProvider : Subscription...
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Installing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication and ADFS
I have a requirement to ensure that Office 365 users external to the network of one of my clients need a second factor of authentication when accessing Office 365 resources from outside the corporate...
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