Author: Microsoft Geek

Create an Azure App Registration with PowerShell and MS GRAPH API

API Reference and Permissions Read the following DOCS for more Details https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/application-post-applications?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http Create an Azure App Reg with the following GRAPH API Application Permissions Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy Application.ReadWrite.All All done, then let’s see the Script The Result We get an empty Azure App Registration without a Secret, Cert, or Permissions.

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Category: Azure, Cloud Computing, PowerShell 101

How to Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell via v2 Module

In this article, you will learn how to prepare to use the EXO V2 module to run Exchange Online unattended scripts with app-only modern authentication. You’ll learn how to: Register a new app in Azure Active Directory and enable its service principal. Assign API permissions and roles. Generate and upload a self-signed certificate. Use the app and certificate to authenticate and […]

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Category: Azure, Cloud Computing, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, PowerShell 101

Connectivity and Network Services on Azure

In this article, we will talk about the different network services offered by Azure to manage our resources and connect to them from a remote site (On-Promise) or via the Internet. Azure VNet (Virtual Network) VNet is the fundamental block of our virtual private network on Azure. It will allow us to securely communicate our Azure resources (VM..etc) with each […]

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Category: Azure, Cloud Computing, Networking 101

Hub & Spoke Architecture on Azure

  The standardization and reuse of architectural models is a common practice in software development, which can be inspired in cloud network topologies. The Hub-and-Spoke model is a network topology increasingly adopted by customers on Azure. We will discuss in this article the characteristics of this architecture, the advantages that can be drawn from it and the most common use cases. The Hub-and-Spoke […]

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Category: Azure, Cloud Computing, Networking 101

How to Create and Configure ExpressRoute Circuits

One of the main objectives for an organization moving to a public cloud, in any type of shape or form, is regarding the overall performance experience: It cannot be a downgraded version of what they have with their on-premises services. Microsoft is well aware of that, therefore created some time back the possibility to use private connections from your datacenter […]

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Category: Azure, Cloud Computing, Networking 101, Virtual Private Network (VPN)

How to deploy a Domain Controller on Microsoft Azure

Active Directory is the heart of your network. The domain controller of your active directory domain is responsible for a lot of on-premises connectivity (LDAP, DNS, …) and is probably extended to the cloud (Azure AD connect). It’s clear that this domain controller is the single point of failure. That’s why you always should have 2 or more domain controllers in an […]

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Category: Azure, Cloud Computing

Comply your AD password expiration policy with Azure AD

How does EnforceCloudPasswordPolicyForPasswordSyncedUsers policy works? If you have an expiration policy configured in your on-premise environment, this is not synced to Azure AD. This results in the scenario where a user can continue to work and access company resources when authenticating against Azure AD, although the password has expired in the on-premise AD. If you want to be able to […]

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Category: Active Directory 101, Azure

Get DNS server IP’s using PowerShell

On servers, we use static IP configuration and static DNS configuration. If you have multiple sites in your environment, this list of DNS server IPs will vary from one site’s server to another. Given these, we sometimes end up with incorrect DNS IP entries in some of the servers. The script I am going to discuss will help you query […]

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Category: Domain Name System ( DNS ), PowerShell 101, Windows Server 2012 /R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019

Step by Step Implementing DNS Security in Windows Server 2016

Since DNS is a critical network service, as a Server Administrator you must protect it as much as possible. A number of options are available for protecting the DNS server, including :• DNS cache locking• DNS socket pool• DNSSEC Before we start the step by step to implement the DNS Security, lets go through a theory behind this technology. DNS Cache Locking Cache locking is […]

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Category: Domain Name System ( DNS ), Windows Server 2016

How to Install Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019

The Windows Server 2019 Install Procedure The following steps walk through Windows Server 2019 Installation from media. Aside from the text fields and the license prompt in step 3, installing Hyper-V Server does not change the screens or process. You begin on the language, locale, and input choice screen: The second screen has the lone Install now button. If you need it, […]

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Category: Hyper-V, Virtualization 101, Windows Server 2019
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