Category: Azure/General Cloudiness

Changing the default sign in for Azure AD joined machines

It seems that many people have a beef with MS for forcing Windows hello for business onto machines where they are joined to Azure AD - as per https://feedback.azure.com/forums/169401-azure-active-directory/suggestions/17762902-allow-for-deactivating-windows-hello-and-set-up It can be disabled via intune....but what if you don't have intune - and cant manage the device until its enrolled with your 3rd party solution…

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AADConnect – Proxy Address in conflict

Had an interesting one recently with a customer that has created cloud accounts for use during COVID-19 with approx 50 users. Each of these accounts were assigned a license and the users used teams, onenote, onedrive etc.... but not exchange online mailbox - as they already have an on-premise mailbox. After this, we became involved…

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Scripting Office 365 licensing with disabled services

Have had a few clients request scripts to automatically set assign licenses to users in Office 365 – Generally pretty simple. Recently I had a client ask to disable a particular service within a license – again, not all that difficult – unless you want to actually check if a license/service is already configured and…

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Using Azure RM Site to Site VPN with a Dynamic IP

By guest writer: Leon Zippel In the interests of saving a bit of money, I decided to switch my ADSL service from an expensive business connection to a cheap residential connection. In Australia this also means switching from a static IP address to a dynamic IP address. With most web-based services now able to be…

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