I’m using SCCM 2012 R2 to deploy Skype for Business (I’m just gonna type SfB from now on, because brevity) as an available install for my users that want to try it (they don’t currently have Lync or anything similar). I’ve run into a few hurdles so far. Part 1 – Post-Install Licensing Oddities After […]
I just wanted to share this tool I tend to use when I can’t find a group policy setting that I know exists. It’s run by the MSDN folks, hosted in Azure, and has been updated with Windows 10 settings already. http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/
According to the official Remote Desktop Services Blog, the latest update to Azure RemoteApp supports custom application deployments, and is no longer limited to the small menu of pre-canned apps that I’d detailed in my previous post about RemoteApp Preview. I will have to scrounge up something to publish, then update this post.
I had a client that was dinged on a penetration test by having one communal password for the local administrator account on all machines. This is convenient for help desk, but is obviously very insecure. In the case of this client, the local admin password was commonly known, so they ran some sort of linuxsuperhacker […]
I can’t take credit for this one, but I wanted to share the solution to sending SMTP e-mail on an Azure WordPress site. Our company has a simple contact form on our website that relies on SMTP. When built in a non-Azure environment, all was well. When we migrated to Azure for webhosting, this was […]
During a recent BitLocker and MBAM implementation, I came across a curious issue: a sizeable percentage of the client’s computers used an Infineon driver for the TPM. This doesn’t outwardly seem to be a concern, but BitLocker requires the built-in Windows TPM driver. In researching the issue, I found another blog that gave me the […]
There are a few hoops to jump through to get your BrandNewShiny.com to point to your Azure website. You will have to configure a few records in DNS for Azure Web Hosting. I went through Host Gator, since I’ve had my other hosting account there for years, but any DNS provider will be similar. Also note that […]
I just got approved for Azure RemoteApp Preview! It has promise, though the demo will do little more than let me run just a few pre-populated in the cloud. Alas, it is just a demo. It took about 10 days from the time I signed up until I actually got access, so the sooner the better. Sign […]
This website is hosted in Azure via WordPress. If you haven’t messed with Azure at all, you should. They offer a free 30 day trial, and MS is more than happy to guide you through anything you might want to do in the cloud via a plethora of articles and guides. The web hosting aspect […]
Here is a great TechNet article explaining the various options for Microsoft’s VDI offerings. It’s good to see them put their VDI architecture into a coherent guide with all of the available options – including new Azure options. Desktop virtualization deployment overview