My notebook about everything related to Cloud Computing and Security
Data protection should always get priority and must be on top of mind in organizations that store and transfer sensitive data. Especially in these days, when it’s more important than ever before to protect data. Also, after May 25th, 2018 organizations needs to be compliant and must follow the standards of the General Data Protection … Continue reading Protect your data with Azure Information Protection
Regularly I get the question from customers how to move shared mailboxes to Exchange Online and which considerations they should make before doing so. For this reason, I decided to write a little bit about this subject. What is a shared mailbox? A shared mailbox is used to send and receive email from a common … Continue reading Migrate shared mailboxes to Exchange Online
Introduction In my previous blogpost I described how to configure a Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection in Microsoft Azure. In this blogpost I will explain how to create an Active Directory (AD) trust. This particular trust will create the possibility for users in the external domain (on-premises) to authenticate in the Azure domain. This … Continue reading Create an Active Directory Trust
Introduction Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) is used to establish connections between different locations of companies, amongst others. This way the different locations can exchange data with each other through a secure connection. In Azure, Site-to-Site VPN is used to establish connections between the Azure tenant and the on-premises environment. Making use of the Site-to-Site VPN connection … Continue reading Create a Site-to-Site VPN with Azure Resource Manager
On December 15th 2015 Microsoft released the Cumulative Update 11 (CU11) for Exchange Server 2013. In the upcoming blog post series I will describe the steps for a Greenfield installation of Exchange 2013 CU11 on Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2. In total this blog post series will consist of four parts. Regarding to this subject several … Continue reading Installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 CU11 – Part 1
This post is intended to inform my readers about the title change of my blog. Until now my blog posts were only related to products of the Microsoft System Center Suite and were mainly focused on Operations Manager. However, since I want to expand my horizons, future blog posts will be related to products other … Continue reading New Blog Title
During the upgrade of Operations Manager 2012R2 it is possible that you encounter some problems. For example, starting the upgrade process for Operations Manager 2012 R2 the following error is shown in some cases: "Setup is unable to proceed with installation for the following reason: “Setup could not detect the current Data Warehouse scenario. Please … Continue reading Unable to Proceed error during upgrade Operations Manager 2012R2
In this post I describe what cool items can be built with the Visio based dashboard solutions for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). I am aware of the awesome products that are made by Squared Up and Savision which both can be used to make excellent dashboards. However, in this post I will focus on … Continue reading Operations Manager Dashboards in Microsoft Visio
After installing System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2 it is necessary to enter the product key. This can be done by the Operations Manager Shell, but if the command Set-SCOMLicense -ProductId <Product Key> was entered the message: set-scomlicense: Requested registry access is not allowed may appear (Figure 1). Figure 1. SCOM PowerShell License key … Continue reading SCOM License: Requested registry access is not allowed
In this post I will describe the necessary steps that must be followed in order to create a rule targeted against a group in Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2012 R2. In this particular case I will create a rule that keeps an eye on the Windows Special Logon events. The procedure is as follows: Open the Operations … Continue reading Creating Rules in Operations Manager 2012 R2
