Category: Azure

  • Web Application Proxy – on Azure

    The Azure AD Application Proxy is a new feature available in Azure WAAD Premium. It allows administrators to securely publish internal websites using Azure’s technology. By using this, it will allow customers to make use of enterprise class hardware in their reverse proxy solutions protecting against DDOS attacks and many more other things. In this post we…

  • Azure VPN with Checkpoint FW

    In this post, how to configure a Site2Site VPN connecting using a Checkpoint firewall. [EDIT: The instructions below are for R77, which is a really old version. I’m currently writing the instructions for the R80.20 version, but it seems it’s a bit harder to get the S2S tunnel up and stable.. certainly on my PPPOE…

  • FIM/BHOLD reports

    So all documentation on BHOLD informs you there are “out of the box” reports available.. none of the articles show which reports they are.. so here they are..

  • Office 365… where to get your information

    So this post is more of an advertisement.. Office 365, the latest version of BPOS (Business Productivity Suite Online) is in beta stage at the moment and more enterprises decide to go for it. It is based on Exchange 2010, Lync (new OCS), SharePoint 2010 and lots more.. My colleagues have decided to create a…

  • CCF 2009 simple architecture

    I’ve been working with CCF the last days, CCF you say what is that? Well its a product from Microsoft that can be used to enhance the experience of users when working with multiple applications that require the same input. Say we have a call center with many applications. When a customer calls the agent…

  • Selective authentication

    When creating a forest trust, each domain within the trusted forest becomes trusted. While this is sometimes not desired it is possible to limit the scope by implementing selective-authentication. It is possible to only allow authentication between those domains you want by granting the allowed to authenticate right to only those domains objects.

  • Server Core + network bindings

    When you want to control the bindings on a network card in Server Core (2008R2), your stuck with the registry editor. So how do you A: know what binding you want to remove, B: where to locate it, C: to disable it.. A is easy.. you want to remove, File and Printer Sharing, Client for…

  • Missing some hours lately?

    Daylight saving time.. (DST).. some love it (due to some extra hours of sleep) some hate it.. because the have to program around it.. and so do the developers at Microsoft.. and then.. there are some countries that like to switch the dates they change the time (Argentina for example).. well all fuzzy logic if…

  • OWA 2010 Themes

    As you might of seen, the themes option is removed in Exchange 2010.. the old layout has been changed to some ugly yellow stylish look (probably to make it look like Office 2010.. ). Personally I do not like the yellow and have always used the Zune theme in Outlook 2007 (not that I like…

  • Hyper-V 2.0 + NLB

    If you want to create an NLB on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V, you will notice that all previous blog posts around this topic will do you no good.. Although you can setup the NLB, network traffic will halt no matter what you do.. change the mac to static, revert it back etc etc.. seems Hyper-V version…