Azure Infra – a technical blog.

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…

November 20, 2014
RDS Gateway through WAP

I’ve been trying to get RDS Gateway to work behind my WAP proxy server which is included in Windows Server 2012 R2 and v.Next version. While it is possible…

November 19, 2014
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…

November 18, 2014
Geo-Clustering

Geo Clustering exists in many options, and dependent highly on the requirements and technical capability. This post is to discuss some options and things to consider before deploying any…

October 23, 2014
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..

January 9, 2014
Change UPN (based on Primary Email) based on SMTP: in proxy addresses

So there are numerous scripts out there for setting the UPN of a user to match the Windows Email Address.. you can even do that in a single command…

September 17, 2013
Data Offloaded Transfers – ODX

As we are seeing more and more Windows 2012 based Clouds and services.. I wanted to alert you to the following technology which is becoming more and more available…

June 18, 2013
Mitigating attacks on your Active Directory network

Microsoft released a new whitepaper this week that gives an insight in why you should protect your privileged accounts. One of the techniques described is the PassTheHash attack which…

December 13, 2012
Back to the future…

Did your AD jump back to the year 2000 during the past weekend? .. This could have happened if you are syncing your time with the USNO.NAVY.MIL, as they…

November 25, 2012
MBAM – Install guide – tips

So as promised.. the install guide.. or at least some small tips as the installation is not that hard.. First of all, we are going to use a three…

January 3, 2012
Microsoft BitLocker Administration & Monitoring – intro

Why we should BitLocker (or any other drive encryption) should be clear. A stolen laptop is only worth as much as the retrievable data on it + the value…

September 21, 2011
2FA via the cloud – Cryptocard

So many of you probably have been wondering what type of 2FA I am using for my tests. Instead of setting up internal servers, dealing with encryption keys and…

September 15, 2011